Game Requirements from 1998

[aidenrelkoff]

These are the Requirements for Half life, and Half life 2

 

i found this finda funny, look at the requirements

 

MINIMUM: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

RECOMMENDED: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

The slowest Pentium 4 i have is 1.4Ghz, in 1998 that must have been like the 4770k of today lol. 

 

6 years later HL2 requirements:

MINIMUM:1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE), Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

RECOMMENDED:Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

Oddly enough HL2: Episode two which came out in 2007 still asks the same as HL2(2004).

 

Its kinda cool to see how much advancement there was in 6 years, I bet in 2014 alone we have made more equivalent advancement then 2000-2010.

[daemonowner]

Mouse and keyboard are recommended. You don't say.

[Laurysss]

 

 Mouse, Keyboard

 

 

[NeatSquidYT]

Should say at the bottom

"Unless you have the laptop that NeatSquid has, in which case, you can't even run Garry's Mod you twat"

[MEC-777]

Most modern CPUs today with dynamic clocks idle at 800mhz and perform all kinds of regular system tasks at those speeds that would probably totally bog down one of those old P4's, lol.

 

Also most modern systems with Windows 8.1 use up to 2GB ram or more just for system idle resources.

 

My, how PCs have come a long way in such a short time.

[babbaj]

These are the Requirements for Half life, and Half life 2

 

i found this finda funny, look at the requirements

 

MINIMUM: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

RECOMMENDED: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

The slowest Pentium 4 i have is 1.4Ghz, in 1998 that must have been like the 4770k of today lol. 

 

6 years later HL2 requirements:

MINIMUM:1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE), Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

RECOMMENDED:Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

 

Oddly enough HL2: Episode two which came out in 2007 still asks the same as HL2(2004).

 

Its kinda cool to see how much advancement there was in 6 years, I bet in 2014 alone we have made more equivalent advancement then 2000-2010.

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[Laurysss]

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[aidenrelkoff]

Should say at the bottom

"Unless you have the laptop that NeatSquid has, in which case, you can't even run Garry's Mod you twat"

gmod is surprisingly optimized/demanding. My PC only runs it at around 60-20 FPS, depending on what your doing. my laptop runs it at like 30-10 fps on the lowest settings

[Majestic]

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[Diederik_Gr]

We have come really far in a couple of years, it is also interesting in how the PC's have changed visually. Technology goes fast in general, our smartphones are faster than the PC's 10 years ago, and in 5 years there will be things you don't even dare to imagine right now.

[yumri]

We have come really far in a couple of years, it is also interesting in how the PC's have changed visually. Technology goes fast in general, our smartphones are faster than the PC's 10 years ago, and in 5 years there will be things you don't even dare to imagine right now.

in about 5 years what is used in the business workstation will be in the consumer high end computers so yes if you know how to look at the computer world you can see what will be coming to the consumers in 4 to 6 years time it is past that it gets to be iffy on what will be coming as there is a lmit to how many cores Intel and AMD can just shove into a CPU / APU and you still see a benefit from it which is about 12 atm as past that no game engine nor any other consumer product will take advatage of it but even in that most computers have only 4 cores with hyperthreading so most devlopers aim for 4 core designs ... it is also much easier than doing 12+ core designs. So what will CPUs go to next as we went from increased speeds to more cores to get more computing down in less time and now we are going from a DDR3 RAM genertaion to DDR4 RAM generation but still that wont matter to much for the general consumer thus why it will only be starting for them in skylake 2~3 years from now what the computers 5 years from now will most likely look like is probably 1 CPU with 8 ~ 10 cores all of them running at 3GHz ~ 3.5GHz 16GB of DDR4 and no discrete GPU on most general use computers anymore becuase of how far AMD and Intel are planning to get but for gaming basicly that plus a discrete GPU in addition 10Gbps ethernet in the home and Wireless 802.11ac being standard instead of 802.11n but still with a newer standard coming after it already then of course SSDs takeing over the market for home computers that do not need 3TB or more space per drive as prices are falling for them even now and of course SATA Express or M.2 socket M takeing over where SATA 6Gbps left off with SATA 6Gbps being phased out then more USB3 ports on a standard for the chipset and no VGA outputs anymore besides on workstation / server video cards for legacy monitors in that also 8k being the big thing instead of 4k being hyped up

So that is about what will be in around 5 years from now and your current build will most likely be only partially compatiable with it as the connectors are going to be changeing too.