News Half-Life 2 running with just 8MB of VRAM is a beautiful wireframe mess

[Admin]

A YouTuber has successfully run Half-Life 2 on the 3D Phantom XP 2800 with just 8MB of memory, sacrificing most if not all textures, lighting, shadows, and other effects.

Half-Life 2 running with just 8MB of VRAM is a beautiful wireframe mess : Read more

 

[rluker5]

Probably the best running game on my old atom Z3775 tablet. 32 shaders at 778mhz on a 2w SOC from 2014 is all it takes to run this game. Lost Coast benches at 59.54fps at 1366x768, low. With almost 50g flops of processing power.

I wonder if my 3080 can handle the updated version as well. How things have changed.

 

[MisterZ]

How much VRAM did HL2 officially require?

 

[rluker5]

I was seeing 100-150MB with the settings my tablet ran, but on my desktop with the 3080 per MSI AB per process, and a little over 1GB running 4kmax with the old version.

 

[stonecarver]

How much VRAM did HL2 officially require?

I think the official box copy said 64 mb of ram.

 

[evdjj3j]

This is what the old Ars Technica review from the launch says the requirements are.

System requirements​

	System requirements​	System recommendations​	Test system​

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OS​

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Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP​

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Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP​

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Windows XP Pro SP2​

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CPU​

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1.2GHz processor​

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2.4GHz processor or equivalent​

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Athlon XP 2500+​

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RAM​

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256MB​

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512MB​

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1GB (PC 3200)​

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Input device​

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Mouse and keyboard​

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Mouse and keyboard​

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Keyboard and mouse​

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Video​

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DirectX 7 graphics card​

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DirectX 9 graphics card​

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ATI Radeon 9600XT with Catalyst 4.10, DirectX 9.0b​

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Internet connection​

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Required​

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Required​

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Required​

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Hard drive space​

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[td]

4.5GB​

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4.5GB​

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?​

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