@Puxi thats not that many, its very normal to have this much when u title your videos in specific ways. My channels a good example, i just post random old games (not only old games) and they either got a few thousand or hundred. I think its fun experimenting with it
@@DexGen2002 I made my first 1000+ views by complaining about Vice City DE... I don't earn any money, and those are only numbers but hey. It feels kinda good readin dem numbas I guess.
i remember reading an old forum post a couple years ago about how "No computer will ever be able to run HL2 at such a high resolution as 1080p with AA."
I am soo happy that your video came into my feed, Half Life is the franchise of my life, love the story, love graphics, I am 26 now and I remember that when I played half life 2 it was back in 2004-2005 where we had some internet caffees where all the kids used to gather to play videogames, what a time ... thank you for bringing me some memories of the golden years
I remember the first time I played Half Life, my mom had just passed and my dad was just beating me because he thought it was my fault. I spent the next 12 years replaying Half Life 2 because I couldn't cope with reality. Now I have health problems from the sedentary lifestyle and wont live another 5 years. Thanks Gaben.
Oh, yeah, Node Graph Out of Date. Rebuilding... message - this will never be forgotten... as well as loading stutter where entire system would be locked up for 10+ seconds while all assets are loading. I tried running this game on Duron 700 and GeForce 2 MX 400 (which was effectively almost the same card as GeForce 4 MX 440, just earlier and slightly worse) back in the day but could only run it well when I got upgrade to Athlon XP 1300 at 1.3GHz and GeForce FX5600 and 512 megs of RAM. Then both it and Doom 3 started running more or less ok.
Fun video. Thanks for the reminder of how it was on release. My comp was a bit better, but we weren't playing at 120 fps(most of us). I vaguely remember being around 45ish in the outdoor areas. I remember the loads between sections being like 5 -10 seconds, and thinking it was quick. After all these years and play throughs its still enjoyable. Now we have the VR mod and it is amazing how well it translated to VR. Their art style holds up, it still looks good.
I love these types of videos. Thanks for doing this! It is so interesting to see the average user experience playing Half-Life 2 back in the day. I just completed Half-Life 2, Ep1 this week & and I'm now on Ep2. I was born in 1998 and grew up playing Half-Life 2, it is one of my favorite games of all time. So being able to see how it played originally with early 2000's pc specs really shines a fascinating new light on my favorite game.
valve was always saying that when they make a game it should be playable on the 90% of the people who use steam, that is why their games are so well optimized
For some reason it actually looks better like this to me. Maybe with too much resolution and too much fps you start to focus on the imperfections. Such a nice refresher!
He also intended striking it rich by incorporating lootboxes with 0 age verification and restrictions so children could _literally gamble_ with their parents money. Good guy!
I ran this on an Amd Athlon 3200+ with 1.5 GB ram and a 6600 GT. I couldn't install HL2 after buying it because I needed a DVD drive. Then I got a DVD drive and I needed to install Steam. 🤦♂
This information is to help you. Played it on a 1GHz Athlon (not the Thunderbird) with 100MHz Front-side-Bus, and Geforce2Mx400 32Megabyte VRAM GPU. At the residence of my mates _(they shared a place),_ we all chipped in a component. I loaned the AGP GPU _(overclocking it slightly in Riva-Tuner)_ and some of the RAM (SDRAM) because they only had a TNT prior to that, while they had the motherboard and CPU, while the sound-card was from one of them from their machine they used for edits of modest sound-clips for the bands they played in. The PSU was ambiguous, as was the DVD drive, mouse and Keyboard although an _(Microsoft)_ Intellimouse was used at some point. Having over 8Megabyte cache on an IDE HDD or UDMA 100 helps _(as does obviously that cache amount on a UDMA133 IDE PATA HDD)_ and a fresh MSWindows install _(disabling some "services. msc")_ on an otherwise formatted HDD helps when the MBR (Master Boot Record) has been moved _(and the MFT, Master File Table)_ to the right sector before putting the page-file virtual-memory at the foremost partition on the platter _(backing up to floppy first, defragging with disk-keeper lite)._ The game could just about be run on a 600MHz Duron incurring penalties to the resolution, but more like a 733MHz PIII. They eventually went over to a 64Megabyte VRAM Geforce2Mx200 with a PCI edge connector. FrankenPC's were often cobbled together to get a LAN up for various different games. Running half-life 2 however with those GPU limitations lead to none of the detail showing on broken walls in the game's 3D world ruins. The speakers were Altec-Langsang, the catchiest speaker name to uniqueness ratio speaker name to have ever existed for a manufacturer. Not that catchy, but once you know it, you know it forever. Thank you, Altec-Langsang. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
ActuFrom today’s perspective in 2024, and even looking back to 2004, it still appears impressive, even with minimal requirements. Nowadays, it’s very trendy to use old PCs from the 90s and 2000s as secondary computers for classic games - all for the nostalgia effect. It’s similar to cars: they’re like vintage models that regain value over time. CRT TVs are another example, as they’ve become increasingly rare. It’s like taking a journey back in time. 🙌
that level of anti aliasing (or lack thereof) and low graphics totally makes it like a ps1-ps2 title comparatively to today's quality on a modern rig :D
On one hand, in 2004 I would have had no idea that this was poor performance, I would’ve just played the game. On the other, I will now confidently say that nobody should ever play a FPS with a mouse at 15fps. But still, I have no idea what Oblivion ran at on my brother’s old (non gaming) laptop in 2006, and I still had an amazing time, with a trackpad no less.
the source engine has amazing scalability and compability. it ran on a OG xbox and alot of PCs could pull it off fairly decent. and even in lower settings it still looks more than fine especially for 04 standards. Far Cry wouldn't even give me 2 digit fps on my geforce 2 i had back then
It was interesting learninig that Valve used steam to conduct a voluntary survey of PCs so the knew what people actually had at home when making hl2. They've always been good at optimizing their games, I had shitty pcs growing up and could always play half life, cs 1.6, even half life 2 at some point, they accomodated cutting udge all the way down to absolute bare bones shit haha. The loading times for "Red Letter Day" where horrible but I was very glad that they got way better as I advanced in the game.
Nice video. Always nice to come back seeing old games running on real old hardware. :) Altho, Pentium 4 1.5GHZ isn't minimum system requirement. According to original box from 2004 release, it's 1.2GHZ. Which, I believe it should be Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.2GHZ or AMD Athlon XP with a GPU 128-256MB VRAM DirectX 7.0 supported. Anything from NV40 & R400-R500 GPUs should be able to handle just fine. Your GPU seems outdated for the game if we had to compare NV18 to NV40s..
The difference between high and low graphics settings is abysmal in HL2, the game even switches to DirectX 7 to be able to run on low end hardware. The DX9 version is way closer to the current version, and in my opinion it looked even better in some aspects, like bloom and the viewmodels' specular map
Wow, that's really interesting to see, considering that most computers nowadays can run this game, it's interesting to see how it was a great game for the time graphically!
I remember building a very beefy PC to run this and Doom 3 back in 2004. It featured an Athlon 64 3400+, a 256mb GeForce 6800 GT, and 1GB of DDR ram. A heavy 20 pound monster back then, but by today's standards a 5 ounce $300 budget smartphone can run circles around that. Crazy to think about.
Nice! Those Athlon 64s were pretty fantastic back in the day. I got a P4 3 GHZ for $2 from a thrift store and put a 7900 GS in it, would probably perform similarly. Perhaps try HL2 and Doom 3 on it...
Crazy how people complain about 3-10 seconds loading screens today 😂 back then we waited for around 30-60 seconds for a level transition, sometimes 60-90 seconds 😅
i remember playing this on my super underpowered pc back in around 2008 it ran possibly with similar results, maybe even a little worse - but i had fun either way
The most impressive thing ever done with half life 2 is the port to the original xbox. A 733mhz celeron, 64mb unified ram, and a GPU thats roughly the equivalent of a geforce 3 Ti500.
Yeah, it really is. The video card in this is actually less powerful than the one in the OG Xbox, but the CPU is much faster and there's a lot more memory.
The prop fade distance is crazy. I wonder if there's ever a situation where an enemy is using something as cover, but it's far away enough to not be visible. Also, why is your mouse so slow? Is it a problem with the mouse itself, or is it just the surface it's on?
oh god, it's my pc lol, well, almost, i had a pentium 4, geforce 6200 and 2gb of ram ddr1, i remember the game running ok, well, it was playable for me as a kid lol, i was playing hl2 on that thing somewhere between 2010 and 2014, it also ran gmod sandbox, and i had a lot of fun with it, but for some god-forsaken reason it didn't run the episodes 1 and 2, and barely ran portal 1, but half life 2 was by far the best looking game i've ever played on that machine, looking back it's incredible how well-optimized it was
@@Z2KRetroGaming I don't know what to tell you man, if you've never played it before, there's nothing you could talk about in a potential video. don't worry about it
i cant tell if its because of the minimum specs but i thinks this is what valve taked about in the documentary of how graphics cards had to get new drivers to fix the lighting
I should have mentioned the driver version - this is 93.71 from November 2006, so it's presumably updated. I could throw earlier drivers on and see if it's different.
@@Z2KRetroGaming I guess it depends on the version? I got the collector's edition in the tin can with the t-shirt and it came on a single DVD that also forced me to install Steam to finish the game installation
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The algorithm has selected its champion
And he only gave him 3k views. Nice algorithm you're writing about.
@ ur mom is a nice algorithm
@Puxi thats not that many, its very normal to have this much when u title your videos in specific ways. My channels a good example, i just post random old games (not only old games) and they either got a few thousand or hundred. I think its fun experimenting with it
@@DexGen2002 I made my first 1000+ views by complaining about Vice City DE... I don't earn any money, and those are only numbers but hey. It feels kinda good readin dem numbas I guess.
i remember reading an old forum post a couple years ago about how "No computer will ever be able to run HL2 at such a high resolution as 1080p with AA."
Haha that sounds so sweet
“a couple”
@@chocolate_maned_wolf Maybe I phrased it confusingly. It was a forum post from decades ago that I stumbled across just a couple of years ago.
@@goeiecool9999 oh I was just joking, I know its just a grammar error but as a hl1 fan i wish "a couple" was accurate lmao
this pc looks exactly like the one they had in CS Source Office, with a "Beefy Computer" sticker on it lol
I think you're right. Another TH-camr named 'Bringus Studios' made a video where they recreated the cs_office computer. I recommend checking it out.
@@krumz90 literally was just watching bringus lol
Still would've been mindblowing in 2004
It was
watching that trashcan fade in and out is fucking astonishing
nowadays you mess with stuff like that in GMod by the dozens
I am soo happy that your video came into my feed, Half Life is the franchise of my life, love the story, love graphics, I am 26 now and I remember that when I played half life 2 it was back in 2004-2005 where we had some internet caffees where all the kids used to gather to play videogames, what a time ... thank you for bringing me some memories of the golden years
I remember the first time I played Half Life, my mom had just passed and my dad was just beating me because he thought it was my fault. I spent the next 12 years replaying Half Life 2 because I couldn't cope with reality. Now I have health problems from the sedentary lifestyle and wont live another 5 years.
Thanks Gaben.
That's a pretty beefy computer you got there.
Oh, yeah, Node Graph Out of Date. Rebuilding... message - this will never be forgotten... as well as loading stutter where entire system would be locked up for 10+ seconds while all assets are loading.
I tried running this game on Duron 700 and GeForce 2 MX 400 (which was effectively almost the same card as GeForce 4 MX 440, just earlier and slightly worse) back in the day but could only run it well when I got upgrade to Athlon XP 1300 at 1.3GHz and GeForce FX5600 and 512 megs of RAM. Then both it and Doom 3 started running more or less ok.
I've been waiting years for someone to make this exact video.
My mother had me a ATI 9600XT with HL2 free coupon. Game runed fine as I remember
The 9600 is a much better card than the Quadro 380 XGL (which is essentially a GeForce MX 440).
Half Life 2 is a rune?
Fun video. Thanks for the reminder of how it was on release. My comp was a bit better, but we weren't playing at 120 fps(most of us). I vaguely remember being around 45ish in the outdoor areas. I remember the loads between sections being like 5 -10 seconds, and thinking it was quick. After all these years and play throughs its still enjoyable. Now we have the VR mod and it is amazing how well it translated to VR. Their art style holds up, it still looks good.
I love these types of videos. Thanks for doing this! It is so interesting to see the average user experience playing Half-Life 2 back in the day. I just completed Half-Life 2, Ep1 this week & and I'm now on Ep2. I was born in 1998 and grew up playing Half-Life 2, it is one of my favorite games of all time. So being able to see how it played originally with early 2000's pc specs really shines a fascinating new light on my favorite game.
the comments made me realize that this isnt a popular video, nice job btw
That's how I remember playing Half-life 2 for the first time on the family computer back in the day. Good memories !
the table is suffering back there
This was how I played the game back then, and I loved it.
Nowadays we take HD, 60FPS, 16:9 and mouse sensitivities
"Mouse sensitivities"
"Mouse sensitivities"
For reference 4K is 27x more pixels.
valve was always saying that when they make a game it should be playable on the 90% of the people who use steam, that is why their games are so well optimized
This is how I played the game when it was first released. Still one of the best gaming experiences I had.
Awesome, man..still have my original copy from 2004 with the G-man box art 54.99 sticker
I remember telling a friend at school how crazy the graphics were in this game because you could see so much detail in Gman's eye
For some reason it actually looks better like this to me. Maybe with too much resolution and too much fps you start to focus on the imperfections. Such a nice refresher!
I kind of agree. On modern hardware it looks overly sharp almost - like something too finely polished.
@@Z2KRetroGamingI play TF2 on my PC and I prefer 744p over 1080p
probably because the art was designed with crt monitors over lcd ones, try playing it on one or using a filter with reshade or something
The way Gaben intended
He also intended striking it rich by incorporating lootboxes with 0 age verification and restrictions so children could _literally gamble_ with their parents money.
Good guy!
i love my algorithm.
That HL2 box is beautiful, also bonus for it being in pristine condition
I ran this on an Amd Athlon 3200+ with 1.5 GB ram and a 6600 GT. I couldn't install HL2 after buying it because I needed a DVD drive. Then I got a DVD drive and I needed to install Steam. 🤦♂
This information is to help you. Played it on a 1GHz Athlon (not the Thunderbird) with 100MHz Front-side-Bus, and Geforce2Mx400 32Megabyte VRAM GPU. At the residence of my mates _(they shared a place),_ we all chipped in a component. I loaned the AGP GPU _(overclocking it slightly in Riva-Tuner)_ and some of the RAM (SDRAM) because they only had a TNT prior to that, while they had the motherboard and CPU, while the sound-card was from one of them from their machine they used for edits of modest sound-clips for the bands they played in. The PSU was ambiguous, as was the DVD drive, mouse and Keyboard although an _(Microsoft)_ Intellimouse was used at some point. Having over 8Megabyte cache on an IDE HDD or UDMA 100 helps _(as does obviously that cache amount on a UDMA133 IDE PATA HDD)_ and a fresh MSWindows install _(disabling some "services. msc")_ on an otherwise formatted HDD helps when the MBR (Master Boot Record) has been moved _(and the MFT, Master File Table)_ to the right sector before putting the page-file virtual-memory at the foremost partition on the platter _(backing up to floppy first, defragging with disk-keeper lite)._ The game could just about be run on a 600MHz Duron incurring penalties to the resolution, but more like a 733MHz PIII. They eventually went over to a 64Megabyte VRAM Geforce2Mx200 with a PCI edge connector. FrankenPC's were often cobbled together to get a LAN up for various different games. Running half-life 2 however with those GPU limitations lead to none of the detail showing on broken walls in the game's 3D world ruins. The speakers were Altec-Langsang, the catchiest speaker name to uniqueness ratio speaker name to have ever existed for a manufacturer. Not that catchy, but once you know it, you know it forever. Thank you, Altec-Langsang.
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
HE HAS THE COUNTER STRIKE PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ActuFrom today’s perspective in 2024, and even looking back to 2004, it still appears impressive, even with minimal requirements.
Nowadays, it’s very trendy to use old PCs from the 90s and 2000s as secondary computers for classic games - all for the nostalgia effect. It’s similar to cars: they’re like vintage models that regain value over time. CRT TVs are another example, as they’ve become increasingly rare. It’s like taking a journey back in time. 🙌
that level of anti aliasing (or lack thereof) and low graphics totally makes it like a ps1-ps2 title comparatively to today's quality on a modern rig :D
i don't think half life 2 would have ran on a PS2. it did run on xbox though which was a marvel in itself
On one hand, in 2004 I would have had no idea that this was poor performance, I would’ve just played the game. On the other, I will now confidently say that nobody should ever play a FPS with a mouse at 15fps. But still, I have no idea what Oblivion ran at on my brother’s old (non gaming) laptop in 2006, and I still had an amazing time, with a trackpad no less.
90th subber. Hope you make it big
Welcome algorithm friends
the source engine has amazing scalability and compability. it ran on a OG xbox and alot of PCs could pull it off fairly decent. and even in lower settings it still looks more than fine especially for 04 standards. Far Cry wouldn't even give me 2 digit fps on my geforce 2 i had back then
Great video!
i remember playing like this
It was interesting learninig that Valve used steam to conduct a voluntary survey of PCs so the knew what people actually had at home when making hl2. They've always been good at optimizing their games, I had shitty pcs growing up and could always play half life, cs 1.6, even half life 2 at some point, they accomodated cutting udge all the way down to absolute bare bones shit haha. The loading times for "Red Letter Day" where horrible but I was very glad that they got way better as I advanced in the game.
wow that is a thick dvd case
This is almost exactly how I played the game back in the day haha. Nearly exact same computer and monitor. Brings back some memories.
the cs office pc
Nice video. Always nice to come back seeing old games running on real old hardware. :) Altho, Pentium 4 1.5GHZ isn't minimum system requirement. According to original box from 2004 release, it's 1.2GHZ. Which, I believe it should be Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.2GHZ or AMD Athlon XP with a GPU 128-256MB VRAM DirectX 7.0 supported. Anything from NV40 & R400-R500 GPUs should be able to handle just fine. Your GPU seems outdated for the game if we had to compare NV18 to NV40s..
still looks pretty good for 2004
Even like that, back then it must have been so realistic compared to other games og the era
Pick up that can.
Yeah, this video is pretty good. Thanks TH-cam.
Better than the slop it usually recommends to me.
you even got the pc case which valve used as a reference for a pc model in cs:s, what a chad
The difference between high and low graphics settings is abysmal in HL2, the game even switches to DirectX 7 to be able to run on low end hardware.
The DX9 version is way closer to the current version, and in my opinion it looked even better in some aspects, like bloom and the viewmodels' specular map
I had an MX 440 when HL2 came out and I remember it running about like this. Later on I upgraded to a 6800 GT and it was night and day difference.
yall had graphics cards?
Reminds me of when i downloaded hl source for the first time. I could barely run it because of the physics but had a good time.
Wow, that's really interesting to see, considering that most computers nowadays can run this game, it's interesting to see how it was a great game for the time graphically!
damn I played HL2 on this same computer back in the day. I still have it up in the attic.
I remember building a very beefy PC to run this and Doom 3 back in 2004. It featured an Athlon 64 3400+, a 256mb GeForce 6800 GT, and 1GB of DDR ram. A heavy 20 pound monster back then, but by today's standards a 5 ounce $300 budget smartphone can run circles around that. Crazy to think about.
Nice! Those Athlon 64s were pretty fantastic back in the day.
I got a P4 3 GHZ for $2 from a thrift store and put a 7900 GS in it, would probably perform similarly. Perhaps try HL2 and Doom 3 on it...
@Z2KRetroGaming That's awesome. I would love to watch a video of that PC running Doom 3 and Half Life 2.
Crazy how people complain about 3-10 seconds loading screens today 😂 back then we waited for around 30-60 seconds for a level transition, sometimes 60-90 seconds 😅
i remember playing this on my super underpowered pc back in around 2008
it ran possibly with similar results, maybe even a little worse - but i had fun either way
i dont even need to watch this, i played below the requirements needed
Nice AudioEngine A2s. I have the same ones for my retro computer
thank you king
I really enjoy these "running X on minimum system requirements" mainly because it was a dream of mine to do that with many games since I was a child
The most impressive thing ever done with half life 2 is the port to the original xbox. A 733mhz celeron, 64mb unified ram, and a GPU thats roughly the equivalent of a geforce 3 Ti500.
Yeah, it really is. The video card in this is actually less powerful than the one in the OG Xbox, but the CPU is much faster and there's a lot more memory.
The prop fade distance is crazy. I wonder if there's ever a situation where an enemy is using something as cover, but it's far away enough to not be visible.
Also, why is your mouse so slow? Is it a problem with the mouse itself, or is it just the surface it's on?
Just on a terrible surface - really need a mousepad for my workbench area.
I'm surprised it didn't have much of the trademark Source stutters.
The sensitivity of the mouse is so low😂
oh god, it's my pc lol, well, almost, i had a pentium 4, geforce 6200 and 2gb of ram ddr1, i remember the game running ok, well, it was playable for me as a kid lol, i was playing hl2 on that thing somewhere between 2010 and 2014, it also ran gmod sandbox, and i had a lot of fun with it, but for some god-forsaken reason it didn't run the episodes 1 and 2, and barely ran portal 1, but half life 2 was by far the best looking game i've ever played on that machine, looking back it's incredible how well-optimized it was
This is very good, I have a bit of a request, can you play Tamriel Rebuilt on the recommeneded 2002 specs for Morrowind
I never really played that series but can look into it - what are the recommended specs?
@@Z2KRetroGaming I don't know what to tell you man, if you've never played it before, there's nothing you could talk about in a potential video. don't worry about it
i gotta see if itll run on my gateway at some point just for the hell of it
BUFF Computers
BEEFY
I bought this game and only used it to play Garry's Mod back when it released. It's still a game I play to this day.
i cant tell if its because of the minimum specs but i thinks this is what valve taked about in the documentary of how graphics cards had to get new drivers to fix the lighting
I should have mentioned the driver version - this is 93.71 from November 2006, so it's presumably updated. I could throw earlier drivers on and see if it's different.
weren't you supposed to use a 14.4kbps modem to install steam?
Nope, I'm pretty sure it came on the six CDs or whatever HL2 came on. Also, I'm pretty sure we were on aDSL by then.
Most people had broadband by 2004
@@Z2KRetroGaming I guess it depends on the version? I got the collector's edition in the tin can with the t-shirt and it came on a single DVD that also forced me to install Steam to finish the game installation
@@onceuponatimeonearth could have been! I barely remember to be honest, I just remember the six CDs and I thought Steam was on them.
only 266 views? wth dude?
Glad you agree! I'm probably not doing the TH-cam algorithm thing correctly.
This is basically equivalent to the xbox port ha.
I think you're playing on a CS:Source prop
Here before 1000000 views.
my laptop cant even run this game T_T
My pc wirh a amd a4 5000 running hl 2 at 12 fps lol
cool
Oh man, this makes me so nostalgic. Especially the Fraps FPS counter. :)
Only way to count frames in XP!
ur voice is so hot
Make the editing crisp
Drags on for too long