naznatips on 13 December 2007
| MrMarc said: Am I the only one here who thinks you'll have no problem at all running it? The Source engine is AMAZINGLY scalable, and if I could play HL2 on an old FX5200 with a 1.8ghz celeron on highest possible settings in DX8 mode, I know you can get away with it absolutely fine. Alot of people forget the difference that simply switching to DX8 mode can make, and while you do lose some DX9 flair, it's the performance that should matter more to you. Try out the HL2 demo anyway, if that runs well, I guarantee for the most part all of Orange Box will run just as well. |
Well since I'm the only one here who has actually tried to run Orange Box on a 6150SE I reserve the right to completely discredit everything in here. I tried switching it to DX8, and although that let me run HL2, Portal, and HL2 Ep 1, HL Ep2 and TF2 were still near unplayable. I had to lower the resolution way down on TF2 PLUS switch it to DX8 PLUS use a couple other tricks to play it at 25 FPS on lowest settings. Ep2 is even worse. Just trust me that it's really not worth it. Even if you get it into a playable range your resolution will be so low and your framerate will suck so much that you'll still get slaughtered. Just buy a budget card.
