NavyDave Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 I saw Half Life two on Kazaa lite then saw part of a scroll this morning saying halflife 2 blueprints? were stolen then put on the web. Didnt touch it because I didnt know what to make of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endzone_dave Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 NavyDave, I know this is a stupid question but could you help me out? Would just a run of the mill laptop, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM stand any chance of running Doom 3 or Half Life 2? Or do you need a revved up PC with a good graphics card? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallyG3 Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 It will run, but not good enough to enjoy. To really get your money's worth out of a game like this, you'll need a graphics card that handles DirectX 9, like the Nvidia FX or ATI Radeon 9xxx series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/07/technology/vivendi_code.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes Vivendi's 'Half Life II' code stolen Firm delays video game's release after hacker breaks into e-mail, steals a third of source code. October 7, 2003: 7:26 AM EDT PARIS (Reuters) - The theft of part of its source code has delayed until April 2004 the launch of "Half Life II," the hotly anticipated alien-hunting game of Vivendi Universal Games, a company official said. "A third of the source code was stolen," VU Games president of international operations Christophe Ramboz told daily Les Echos in its Tuesday edition. "It's serious because it forces us to delay the launch of the game by at least four months, that is to April 2004. Just the time to rewrite parts of the game." According to Les Echos, a hacker broke into the e-mail of the game's developer, Gabe Newell, the founder of Valve Software, and planted a spying program. The delay is bad news for VU Games, which suffered a 29 percent fall in revenue and an operating loss of 52 million ($61.36 million) in 2003's first half and was betting on swift holiday sales. This is the second time the game's release has been postponed. Last month, VU games postponed the release of "Half-Life II" from Sept. 30 to "an unspecified holiday release." The game was keenly awaited after last May's games industry trade show, E3. Critics previewing it said it brought a new level of realism to characters and the virtual world in which they move. The original "Half-Life," released in 1998, is still popular among PC gamers, and a modified version called "Counter-Strike" is widely used in gaming competitions. "Half-Life II" stars Gordon Freeman, a scientist battling aliens from the planet Xen in a mysterious European locale known only as City 17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted October 7, 2003 Author Share Posted October 7, 2003 Thanks Wally because I was going to search tech tv for the specs they put out on their askforhelp and screensavers program for the doom3 game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted October 7, 2003 Author Share Posted October 7, 2003 I still remember back in 98 when we used doom to test our Lan connection, memory handling and graphics on the 5 IBM laptops before taking them out on deployment. Yeah we used them for performance testing only Actually we used this for an excuse to our superiors and the tech geeks that work in Sterlin va in sicily with us backed us up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted October 7, 2003 Author Share Posted October 7, 2003 Dammit April instead of Xmas now? :mad: :thud: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canyonero! Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 The whole thing seems like a ploy Vivendi pulled off to give Valve an excuse to delay the game again. And the source code isn't the complete game, supposedly just the multiplayer portion. Even in that case, you'd need to compile it and try to get it to run totally unoptimized and everything. Same thing happened with Doom III late last year, and it would barely run on even the highest end machine (at the time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 April??? Rats. My new Radeon 9800 is going to seem quite quaint compared to the new cards coming by then. Deus Ex: Invisible War is looking better and better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Your going to need a very stout system to run Halflife 2 and Doom 3. I've seen benchmarks for Doom 3 with a 3ghz pentium 4 and a Radeon 9800 pro card and it topped out at only 60fps. I'm going to buy a Pentium 4 2.4C processor( overclocked to 3.0ghz) Abit mobo)overclocked to 1000mhz FSB), Dual Channel DDR Memory, and a Radeon 9800 Pro card to play Doom 3 and Halflife 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 No doubt Johnny. 2500+ Barton oc'd to 3200+ @400MHz FSB, air-cooled Two sticks of 256 meg Samsung pc 3200 ram, dual channel PowerColor Radeon 9800 non-pro oc'd to pro spec's, 380/680 MSI Nforce 2 400 Ultra mobo Sound Blaster live 5.1 21" Trinitron monitor win98 (no WPA for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted October 9, 2003 Author Share Posted October 9, 2003 on xplay the babe played the demos but wasnt allowed to show it but she claimed that they both will kick a$$. I think I'm gonna get Xbox two before PS3 though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted October 9, 2003 Author Share Posted October 9, 2003 Tokyo show is showing the Final fantasy twelve nice graphics and preview of MGS Snake eater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Saw over on the inquirer that only a small amount of code was grabbed and that the game will be released in time for the holidays. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Just watched a trailer for Deus Ex: Invisible War over at http://www.dxinvisiblewar.com/. The game is number one on my short list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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