On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:12 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>>>> People complained about, say, HalfLife 2, but in fact it turns out to
>>>> have surprisingly modest requirements. It played perfectly well for
>>>> me on a lowly £60 graphics card. And when you consider that the
>>>> top-of-the-line cards are usually £300 or so, £60 isn't exactly
>>>> pricey.
>>>
>>> "Surprisingly modest requirements" by today's standards.
>>>
>>> 8 years ago when it was released, the requirements weren't
>>> particularly modest.
>>
>> For example, the entry-level video card they recommended was the
>> GeForce FX 5700, which had a street price at the end of 2003 of US$199.
>>  The recommended GeForce 6800 was sub-$300 when it came out.
>>
>> Back in 2004, that was a considerable expense for a video card.
> 
> Worked just fine with my GeForce 6600, which was about £60.
> 
> (That's not GeForce 6600 GT or 6600 Ultra, just a vanilla 6600.)

In 2004 when the game was released?

The minimum and recommended configurations for the PC version as 
originally released are on the Wikipedia entry for HL2.

Memory cost 4x-8x as much then as now per GB (you can today get 4 GB of 
memory for what 512 MB-1GB cost then).

Jim

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