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Amazing how cpu clock speed seems not out of place at all, while the rest seems so out of date (like 56k modems)
Interesting, let's take a look at the instructions per clock. Oh, yikes. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-4-380GHz...
Four times the single core performance.
Two decades.
The game was in English and I didn't speak it at all at the time so had to download the translation (700Mb audio files). Took me a couple days. With constant disconnects as dial up wasn't really reliable. Luckily, Steam allowed you to resume the download.
Still using that Steam account.
The game ran well. Although, my friend had Radeon 9600 Series and it performed noticeably better on his PC (or maybe I'm confusing it with a different game - Far Cry).
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Interesting, let's take a look at the instructions per clock. Oh, yikes. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-4-380GHz...
36% better memory latency. Four times the single core performance. Two decades.
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 w…
If I remember correctly you needed Shader model 3.0 support to get those fancy graphical effects which required GeForce FX series & 6th Series (6600/6800 etc).
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> came with Half-Life 2 I think mine came with Vietcong, which was... underwhelming.
Nope, I got a 9600XT, and it came with a serial number for HL2. I added a Zalman cooler on top of that card, and it was both silent and stable.
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.
I imagine a number of people with Apple Cinema display connected to their PC would be really limited.
Also I am curious who was running Steam on a computer with <24MB of RAM in 2004, that seems ... odd.