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Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

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Re: Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

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Very curious what the rest of the setups looked like for the 0.02% of people with a 1920 wide screen display back then…

Google tells me the Apple Cinema displays came out around this time as well, so surprised there aren’t more 2560 wide users.

Re: Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

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Very curious what the rest of the setups looked like for the 0.02% of people with a 1920 wide screen display back then…

Google tells me the Apple Cinema displays came out around this time as well, so surprised there aren’t more 2560 wide users.

Apple and gaming did not coincide much at all then, and as I recall the cinema display couldn't be used with a PC without a weird adapter

Re: Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

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These were the years of the GeForce 4 and the brand new amd64 processor. The Direct X version supported by GeForce 4 couldn’t even display the real pretty water textures at that time, or at least mine couldn’t on my GeForce 4 + amd64 laptop. Little guy was a beast back then. Compaq, I think?

That game was so good and around that time, people were figuring out how to get HL2 to be multiplayer in story mode, and gmod was in its infancy right around then.

Good times.

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