This guy has such a great personality that even though I dont really like benchmarks I acutally enjoy this guy and feel excited when he uploads. keep up the great work
@@ricarnuninho80 I know, but in some older games like HL2, the non-RTX water reflections look better than in more modern games which neglect it because you're supposed to run the game with RTX on - e.g. Battlefield 5.
i can exactly remember this day when i was 15 years old. installing steam...hl2...a golden fall day. played hl2 on max details and a THX 7.1 sound system. i had a blast.
14:00 No need to imagine, I was 22 and had just started my first full-time job. Can't remember what my CPU was, but I think the GPU was a Radeon 9700 Pro.
@@postanimus8989 I played that game on a geforce 2 GTS and a pentium 3 1ghz. It ran, but didn't have the pixel shader effects for like water. Still was blown away by the game.
This game's demo is what got me into PC gaming. I realized my cheap refurb Dell with a Phenom II X4 at the time could play the demo.. it just needed a dGPU and a friend online sent my their 1gb 9800 GT for 20 bucks. Been PC gaming ever since. Love this game. EDIT- yes, I did the sketchy adapter for GPU power. Fortunately at that time, Dell's 300 watt PSUs were good. EDIT #2 - Note in 2004, many people were still using CRT Monitors (I had a Sony Trinitron Monitor). That made the lower resolutions look MUCH better imo.
@@aaz1992 Yes, GF 9800 GT to HAVE 1GB VRAM. I used this old GPU since 2009 🙂 before upgrade to GF GTX 480. But my current GPU is GF RTX... 4090 since end of october 2022. 😍😁🥰
Half life 2 in 2024 and the cpu is like : I can´t decide if i am expected to do something or disable cores and go into idle mode. Oh wait.. i distract myself getting myself busy with microsofts telemetry harvesting.
@@leebatista3016 That sounds like a modern excuse since if they can't deliver a well polished product from the start it's more of a rip-off to the consumer. If an rx6600-700/xt rx6700/xt rtx3060-70/ti 2060-70/super rx5700xt can't achieve a stable 60 frames in full HD(In high) the game could be considered a technical failure.
@@zimmy91the reflections are fully real-time, if you get a prop or npc you will see their reflection, it literally is just re rendering the scene at a different angle but iirc it does look quite low res when you get close to the water
19:16 The issue there is that assets in the UI and texture packs are always automatically switched when you switch resolutions whether you know it or not, most games made after 2020 load super SUPER low resolution assets when you are feeding the game less than 1920 horizontal pixels and 1080 vertical pixels , some games that are made by really REALLY mediocre programmers actually dont have a lower res asset to load and will start displaying the 1080p asset all wrong, badly shaped, UI cutting off, etc. Half-Life is a genuine computer game, it looked like a 2009 ps3 era game in 2004 when the graphical powerhouse was Resident Evil 4 and GTA San Andreas , it was coded by the most talented programmers of all time in the gaming industry, it has natively designed huds and textures and models that will switch appropiately to all resolutions and aspect ratios you throw at it, in 2004 CRTs were mainstream but 16:9 lcds were on the come up, they only launched the game on PC, they had to cover all range of hardware. The real mistery is why doesn't cyberpunk 2077 behave better with sub 1080p resolutions and aspect ratios other than 16:9 ????
Dude i LOve you, you such a great person. This video is just something so random but i want to watch so badly. Never thought somebody would do it. You insane. thanks for the content.
@@saricubra2867It looks insanely good for a game released in 2004. I'm disappointed how "bad" some of the games look released just 1 or 2 years ago. By now with proper optimisation we should have photorealistic games.
I'm awaiting the RTX version, which is currently in development. It involves some of the original creators of HL2, so it might be good. That's when I'm going to play this title!
My little brother was born the same day this game came out. I remember going to the hospital to see him for the first time then immediately went to the game store and got my copy of half life 2 😂.
It's hard to understand just how powerful of a graphics card the Radeon 9700 Pro was when it came out in 2002. Before that you couldn't play games that look like HL2, then afterwards all of a sudden you had twice as much performance and DirectX9. The 2003 Half Life 2 demo ran on a 9800 Pro. I played HL2 myself on a 9600 Pro on mostly medium settings.
I've always had PC problems with my computer. When i enabled triple buffering it seem to have made my games run a bit smoother. thats what i noticed. i never had triple buffering enabled in the nvidia control panel i use v-sync. i can aim better when triple buffering is enabled also. it says it is supposed to help with making performance better for games when using v-sync.
I remember you needed a very high end PC back in 2004 if you wanted to run the game in DX9 at max settings. People usually opted for the Radeon 9800 Pro / XT as it was the minimum needed to play the game with all effects turned on at playable framerates, though the Radeon X800 Pro or GeForce 6800 GT were better options to run at higher resolutions (like 1600x1200).
Half-Life 3? Don't hold your breath. Gabe Newell is on record RECENTLY saying it hasn't released because he saw these games as NEEDING some new mechanic or idea that pushed gaming forward. Things that happened with HL1 and HL2. And he couldn't come up with one for HL3. He did make HL Alyx to push VR. He said it would be EASY to just release HL3 to push the story forward but that wasn't enough reason. SO... can anybody think of a reason too make HL3 other than story? I sure can't. I don't think we NEED a reason but Newell does. So HL3 seems dead.
16:56 i finished this game 5 times or more on multiple platforms including all the dlc but never seen a combine soldier deploy manhacks. my mind is blown!
There are some things, for example a bridge later on in the game, which even with Anti-Aliasing enabled is still pixelated, as if AA in-game is not affecting that bridge. So going 8K or even higher gives you smooth edges. I haven't checked this game for many years, so maybe Valve fixed this, but hey, back then when I was playing with high resolutions like 8K, 10K, 12K It was nice to look at the images. Obviously i wasn't plying at those resolution as it was a slideshow. I was taking screenshots and appreciating all the details later by inspecting the images :D I also bought this in "orange box" and had to open steam account for the games included in the orange box.
i think the most important thing is that the source 1 engine mainly uses the CPU to render frames as many people in 2004 didnt want to spent $300 for 3D processing so the source 1 engine was hardcoded to render everything in the CPU so your GPU wont matter too much, good video though!
The saddest part is that HL2 graphics still is comparable to modern games and doesn't have insane requirements to run. Another reminder of what we lost. But gimmicky ray tracing makes it all worth it, right?
it is not ray tracing that makes games much harder to run. It is peaople having expectations too high at fps numbers, like 120 fps would do you any good in a single player title. I am running cyberpunk with ultra ray tracing at 1920 by 1200 on my rtx 4060 laptop and it is perfectly usable :) With some dlss quality and frame gen it jumps all the way to 70.
@@Alexandru1996_ needing crappy dlss and frame gen to have a decent experience is sad. That just shows how bad the optimization is. Now we are left with bad input lag and image artifacts
@@Alexandru1996_ are you really saying that on a day and age where if you Buy a high end GPU you still Can't run the most recent games all cracked up without having to use upscalers? Back in the day the GTX1080TI managed to run most games from it's era all cracked up with at least 90 - 120fps
@@LolbitGalerian but you can. Just not at 140 fps. For high refresh rate there is the dlss and frame gen combo. 60 fps is more than enough for any single player title. 120 fps is already marketing cr*p. For a multiplayer game 120-144-165...high values are of course better.
I still remember when I was just a 10 yr old kid and my brothers limited edition (I still have the metal case and T shirt) came in through the mail The game ran at a bunch of fps at medium on our family pc but was amazing, great memories
I remember playing this game when it first came out. I was 50 at the time. Loved it and all of the Half-Life games. And so many people saying that the 4090 is passé, while I am still rocking my 1070 because the 4090 is so out of my price range. But, I think I'll be able to buy a 4070 sometime next year.
HL2 is still one of the best singleplayer FPS experiences. The use of physics for gameplay puts it ahead of many modern shooters. I was really hoping Valve was going to port it to Source 2, but alas.
I love this game but it made me rage as a kid. I couldn't do the physics puzzles and even on easy the enemies were too hard. I got so fed up I never finished this game or played EP1 or EP2. Just too hard for me as a kid.
you could try running multiple instances of half life 2 simultaneously. I don't think the game uses more than 2 cores( if not less), so running multiple you could really make your pc roll up it's sleeves and ask you to hold it's beer. I think the game has a build in fps counter through the console, so you would just have to combine the fps from each instance. If you can get 1000ish fps @4k on one, I think it might actually scale ok. My guess is that if you should be able to get about 4000 to 5000fps combined. Absolutely loved the video
It's crazy to think when I was first playing HLF2 with 1 gig of ram, Intel Pentium and a ATI 9600. Chugging at like 1024 resolution with 45-60fps. Those shaders/physics were a real FPS killer at the time.
If any of you noticed in the video with the airboat unusually being fast it is caused by getting 1000 fps, essentially in most source games if you were to get 1000 fps (it’s a source engine jank) you get a speed boost, there is a video about this in which 3klikphilips made about on his cs2 video.
I was 15 years old when HL2 came out it was a blast. And now the RTX remaster is in progress sooner or later you will experience it with Path Tracing and a lots of reworked textures and assets.
Enable AA as it deals with the jagged edges. Higher resolutions mean that it isn't needed. Bearing in mind, HL2 was mostly dependent on your CPU. So anyone could play it.
Omg thank you so much for reminding me to get this game right now since its free at the moment ive been waiting for this moment of getting the game since probably 2016 im not very sure because i was young at the time but thank you so much man ❤
having a higher resolution give you the most performance consuming but the best anti-aliasing. Edit : After writting this comment, I press play, and he immediatly say what I said. Great video !
Half-Life 2 was revolutionary when it came out. The graphics were good but the rag-doll physics were amazing for the time. The most annoying thing was that once I put the DVD in, you had to log into Steam to 'unlock' the DVD's files. Steam couldn't cope with the numbers and it took me a couple of days to get it all decrypted and playable which was extremelly annoying at the time. Iirc, I first played this game on my P4 system with an ATI 9800XT at 1024x768 resolution and it struggled quite a bit. 😆
HL2 was monumental back in the day. Its NPC A.I is still incredibly good even to this day in the later episodes. It was so good in fact, that it's both HL2 and HL3 in one. They just never told us.
Its actually impressive how the reflections in this game look better than modern ray traced noisy reflections that give us 30 fps at 480p with a ton of upscaling
I notice that you didn't play the Ravenholm level! 😱😱That still scares the crap out of me after 20 years, even with all the fun of getting creative with the gravity gun.
4090 20 years ago was a true beast
😂yes it was and still is🙃
nahh someday that is gonna be true and I dont like it :( :(
Games are more cpu demanding than gpu these days.
😂
@@marcinmowinski5643 🤓 🤓 🤓
HL 2 120 fps in 16k
HL 2 RTx 120 fps in 16p
started watching you on a R7 260x, have a 3060ti now. keep up the great work
Started watching with a laptop with no gpu and a dual core cpu, have a RX 6600 now lol
started watching with hands and legs, have a no hands and legs now
@@ItzKhopdi why😢
@@dokikilic nice the RX 6600 is a legend of a card for the power it uses.
@@ItzKhopdi 😂😂
"Dropping to 500 frames sometimes"
I wish my games would "drop" to 500 frames😂
Display Port 1.4 limits the output to 4K 120fps anyways.
@@lharsay Extremely high fps make you feel powerful
@@lharsay more with DSC.
@@lharsaywrong 😂
Dp 1.4 : 7680 x 4320 / 60 Hz / 10 Bit Chroma / HDR and 3840 x 2160 / 120 Hz / 10 Bit Chroma / HDR
@@lharsay He's not literally displaying 500-1000 frames man.
This guy has such a great personality that even though I dont really like benchmarks I acutally enjoy this guy and feel excited when he uploads. keep up the great work
I appreciate that!
@@zWORMzGamingi would be very happy if someone could spare me their old laptop😭🙏🙏
i only watch videos of games ,can't play any😂😢
You don't like benchmarks? How come? It can be interesting to see. Informative too.
Can’t wait for Half Life 2 RTX
Bro same
Half-Life 2 water reflections already look like RTX.
@@JAnx01 Not by (full) ray tracing. Non-RTX as non-path tracing means the *rasterization*.
@@ricarnuninho80 I know, but in some older games like HL2, the non-RTX water reflections look better than in more modern games which neglect it because you're supposed to run the game with RTX on - e.g. Battlefield 5.
@@kooldogkid149 My 3060Ti: DONT YOU DARE
HL2 is when I first opened a Steam Account with it's purchase. 20 years already, then again 30 years ago seems like last week.
Yeah like about 2 weeks ago
i can exactly remember this day when i was 15 years old. installing steam...hl2...a golden fall day. played hl2 on max details and a THX 7.1 sound system. i had a blast.
@@hanzobi1926 The Orange Box was part of my day one purchase at Microcenter alongside the parts for building a new PC in 2008. 0 regrets!
Damn bro you don't have much long. What are you 50 now?
Yes and I remember at the time thinking ‘what the hell is this Steam crap?!’
14:00 No need to imagine, I was 22 and had just started my first full-time job. Can't remember what my CPU was, but I think the GPU was a Radeon 9700 Pro.
Pretty good, in 2004 many gamers still used GeForce 4MX, at least in my country.
@@postanimus8989 I played that game on a geforce 2 GTS and a pentium 3 1ghz.
It ran, but didn't have the pixel shader effects for like water.
Still was blown away by the game.
HL2 beta leak (2003)
P3-Celeron 1.3 GHz (Tualatin) + GF3 Ti200 64M AGP + 256M SD
HL2 1st try (2004)
Athlon XP 2400+ (T-bred-B) (2.0 GHz) + FX5900 XT 128M AGP + 512M DDR1
HL2 2nd try (2005)
Athlon 64 3000+ (Newcastle) (2.0 GHz) + 6600 GT 128M AGP + 1024M DDR1
HL2 EP1 (2006)
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Manchester) (2 x 2.0 GHz) + 7600 GT 256M AGP + 1536M DDR1
HL2 EP2 (2007)
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo) (2 x 2.2 GHz) + 7900 GS 256M AGP + 2048M DDR1
Being completely honest, this game does not look half bad for being 20 years old.
It was beyond impressive and revolutionary for its time. Even today it can put some AAA game to shame.
Pun intended??
This game's demo is what got me into PC gaming. I realized my cheap refurb Dell with a Phenom II X4 at the time could play the demo.. it just needed a dGPU and a friend online sent my their 1gb 9800 GT for 20 bucks. Been PC gaming ever since. Love this game. EDIT- yes, I did the sketchy adapter for GPU power. Fortunately at that time, Dell's 300 watt PSUs were good. EDIT #2 - Note in 2004, many people were still using CRT Monitors (I had a Sony Trinitron Monitor). That made the lower resolutions look MUCH better imo.
1GB 9800GT??? Lucky! I could only find a 512mb version
@@aaz1992 Yes, GF 9800 GT to HAVE 1GB VRAM. I used this old GPU since 2009 🙂 before upgrade to GF GTX 480. But my current GPU is GF RTX... 4090 since end of october 2022. 😍😁🥰
hello bro today is my birthday and i got myself a amd rx7900xtx got to know about gpu from your videos back then i had a gt1030
Happy birthday! :)
Slight upgrade
hell of an upgrade
Happy birthday 🎂🎈🥳
Happy I could help!!
Happy Birthday 🎂
Half life 2 in 2024 and the cpu is like : I can´t decide if i am expected to do something or disable cores and go into idle mode. Oh wait.. i distract myself getting myself busy with microsofts telemetry harvesting.
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Game is literally cpu bound tho, cpu isn't fast enough for more performance
@@MatheusFerreira-si4ju stop, just stop
Telling the truth? Can't handle reality?😂
With that gpu usage the game is cpu bound, probably only one core is doing all the work since this is an old game
Developers should see an example here of what the public is looking for, fluid, beautiful and entertaining gameplay.
20 Years ago games were simpler in special effects, nowadays it is more complex, so it is harder to stabilize everything.
@@leebatista3016 That sounds like a modern excuse since if they can't deliver a well polished product from the start it's more of a rip-off to the consumer. If an rx6600-700/xt rx6700/xt rtx3060-70/ti 2060-70/super rx5700xt can't achieve a stable 60 frames in full HD(In high) the game could be considered a technical failure.
Weird how that sky looks like our modern day summers.
5:40 man those ray tracing reflections are gorgeous on the 4090!!!
Good on you Valve!
Funny enough that isn't ray traced at all. It's actually some clever filtering and some basic reflection techniques on static objects.
@@zimmy91 It looks good still
no ray tracing yet until the RTX version comes out next year
@@zimmy91the reflections are fully real-time, if you get a prop or npc you will see their reflection, it literally is just re rendering the scene at a different angle but iirc it does look quite low res when you get close to the water
This isn't ray traced.
man i freaking love your videos your the best gpu test benchmark ever , love from Sri Lanka
HL2 was a bomb shell back then, graphics were outstanding for its time.
19:16 The issue there is that assets in the UI and texture packs are always automatically switched when you switch resolutions whether you know it or not, most games made after 2020 load super SUPER low resolution assets when you are feeding the game less than 1920 horizontal pixels and 1080 vertical pixels , some games that are made by really REALLY mediocre programmers actually dont have a lower res asset to load and will start displaying the 1080p asset all wrong, badly shaped, UI cutting off, etc.
Half-Life is a genuine computer game, it looked like a 2009 ps3 era game in 2004 when the graphical powerhouse was Resident Evil 4 and GTA San Andreas , it was coded by the most talented programmers of all time in the gaming industry, it has natively designed huds and textures and models that will switch appropiately to all resolutions and aspect ratios you throw at it, in 2004 CRTs were mainstream but 16:9 lcds were on the come up, they only launched the game on PC, they had to cover all range of hardware.
The real mistery is why doesn't cyberpunk 2077 behave better with sub 1080p resolutions and aspect ratios other than 16:9 ????
8:35 you walked past the stationary machine gun and used the crowbar instead 😂
Fun fact: the source engine every ms counts a frame so if you go over 1000fps the game starts breaking, the best example is TF2.
Dude i LOve you, you such a great person. This video is just something so random but i want to watch so badly. Never thought somebody would do it. You insane. thanks for the content.
Half life just proves that we don't need high end mega power gpus we just need good optimized games
Half Life 2 is "well optimized"
because it's true potato graphics. The game is 20 years old.
@@saricubra2867No he's right. It's well optimized and for being a 20 year old game it looks good. This was cutting edge in 2004.
@@saricubra2867 definately NOT true potato graphics. Low quality but NOT potato. The art style and level design are holding up extremely well
@@saricubra2867It looks insanely good for a game released in 2004. I'm disappointed how "bad" some of the games look released just 1 or 2 years ago. By now with proper optimisation we should have photorealistic games.
@dieselgeezer18 Potato graphics by 2024 path tracing standards.
lov u kryzzp u make awesome vids
also hl2 is an amazin game so thx for hoppin on this
You deserve more than 1 million subs keep ups the hard work🎉🎉
20yrs old?!
damn
anyway, great vid!!!
holy shit its you i followed you way back when you had nothing, fun to se you made it !!!
Haha, welcome back!
Been a long journey :)
9:16 definitely a perfect position
I built my first Gaming PC in 1998 to play the original Half Life, so I was playing this when it was new and loved it.
I'm awaiting the RTX version, which is currently in development. It involves some of the original creators of HL2, so it might be good. That's when I'm going to play this title!
BRO YOU`VE NEVER PLAYED THIS MASTERPIECE ?
Not fully!
I don't blame him. This game is harder than it looks.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty Try Project IGI then, or that Sniper Town area in MOHAA
@@walter1824 No idea what you're talking about.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty Project I.G.I. (I'm Going In) is a tactical fps. MOHAA = Medal of Honour: Allied Assault.
16K gaming is tight
Tight is good 👍
This game is older than me and still manages to look better than some new games in a few things... crazy :D
My little brother was born the same day this game came out. I remember going to the hospital to see him for the first time then immediately went to the game store and got my copy of half life 2 😂.
@@ramborambokitchenkitchen6357 The facial animations are still so good.
@@DillyDally69 the water reflections as well, looks just as good as any modern game with rt reflections.
@@ramborambokitchenkitchen6357 So much better than the glitchy SSR that other companies uses nowadays.
It's hard to understand just how powerful of a graphics card the Radeon 9700 Pro was when it came out in 2002. Before that you couldn't play games that look like HL2, then afterwards all of a sudden you had twice as much performance and DirectX9. The 2003 Half Life 2 demo ran on a 9800 Pro. I played HL2 myself on a 9600 Pro on mostly medium settings.
Full gameplay of half life 2 needed from you
Let's goooo
And it's FREE right now(11-17-2024)
On Steam
@@SubZero_DeZignsis it not only on Steam??
I've always had PC problems with my computer. When i enabled triple buffering it seem to have made my games run a bit smoother. thats what i noticed. i never had triple buffering enabled in the nvidia control panel i use v-sync. i can aim better when triple buffering is enabled also. it says it is supposed to help with making performance better for games when using v-sync.
Hey! Thanks for the donation!! 😃
Triple buffering supposedly makes things smoother, or more consistent. I like to enable it in some games 🙂
i used to dream about this game when they showed the E3 demo .. and then i built my first pc .
Not using the MG at the 9:00 section hurt my soul
I remember you needed a very high end PC back in 2004 if you wanted to run the game in DX9 at max settings. People usually opted for the Radeon 9800 Pro / XT as it was the minimum needed to play the game with all effects turned on at playable framerates, though the Radeon X800 Pro or GeForce 6800 GT were better options to run at higher resolutions (like 1600x1200).
Can't wait for you to Review the HL2 RTX version, And hopefully Half-Life 3
Half-Life 3?
Don't hold your breath. Gabe Newell is on record RECENTLY saying it hasn't released because he saw these games as NEEDING some new mechanic or idea that pushed gaming forward. Things that happened with HL1 and HL2. And he couldn't come up with one for HL3. He did make HL Alyx to push VR. He said it would be EASY to just release HL3 to push the story forward but that wasn't enough reason.
SO... can anybody think of a reason too make HL3 other than story? I sure can't. I don't think we NEED a reason but Newell does. So HL3 seems dead.
Remember playing this gem on my GeForce 2 back in the day
Oh, God!
How good this game looks after 20 years!!!
It was ahead of its time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes and way better the many new games its all about profit now! And not a good story and soul 😢
2:48 Bro, you should change that ASAP. Game's a masterpiece.
🫡🫡
Half Life 2, Far Cry and Doom 3 - the big three of DirectX 9 and Havoc revolution. Big step up in games. Nothing like this happened after.
16:56 i finished this game 5 times or more on multiple platforms including all the dlc but never seen a combine soldier deploy manhacks. my mind is blown!
Wow you really were not paying attention lol
I would definitely like to see a full play through tested with other cards!
There are some things, for example a bridge later on in the game, which even with Anti-Aliasing enabled is still pixelated, as if AA in-game is not affecting that bridge. So going 8K or even higher gives you smooth edges. I haven't checked this game for many years, so maybe Valve fixed this, but hey, back then when I was playing with high resolutions like 8K, 10K, 12K It was nice to look at the images. Obviously i wasn't plying at those resolution as it was a slideshow. I was taking screenshots and appreciating all the details later by inspecting the images :D
I also bought this in "orange box" and had to open steam account for the games included in the orange box.
Yes bro, was an amazing game also graphically!
Can't wait for your full playthrough of this and Stalker 2!
started watching you on a 1650, have a GTX 1650 now. keep up the great work
you may as well wait for HL2 RTX
i think the most important thing is that the source 1 engine mainly uses the CPU to render frames as many people in 2004 didnt want to spent $300 for 3D processing so the source 1 engine was hardcoded to render everything in the CPU so your GPU wont matter too much, good video though!
The saddest part is that HL2 graphics still is comparable to modern games and doesn't have insane requirements to run. Another reminder of what we lost. But gimmicky ray tracing makes it all worth it, right?
Exactly bro. It’s a disgrace how new games require AI upscaling to run decent at 1440p/4k max.
it is not ray tracing that makes games much harder to run. It is peaople having expectations too high at fps numbers, like 120 fps would do you any good in a single player title.
I am running cyberpunk with ultra ray tracing at 1920 by 1200 on my rtx 4060 laptop and it is perfectly usable :)
With some dlss quality and frame gen it jumps all the way to 70.
@@Alexandru1996_ needing crappy dlss and frame gen to have a decent experience is sad. That just shows how bad the optimization is. Now we are left with bad input lag and image artifacts
@@Alexandru1996_ are you really saying that on a day and age where if you Buy a high end GPU you still Can't run the most recent games all cracked up without having to use upscalers?
Back in the day the GTX1080TI managed to run most games from it's era all cracked up with at least 90 - 120fps
@@LolbitGalerian but you can. Just not at 140 fps. For high refresh rate there is the dlss and frame gen combo.
60 fps is more than enough for any single player title.
120 fps is already marketing cr*p.
For a multiplayer game 120-144-165...high values are of course better.
I still remember when I was just a 10 yr old kid and my brothers limited edition (I still have the metal case and T shirt) came in through the mail
The game ran at a bunch of fps at medium on our family pc but was amazing, great memories
damn, I'll need 4090 this one. Considering 480p which is considered next generation resolution, my CRT might even burn out!
My Guy Is The Best Benchmarker On UA-cam 🖤✨
The way it changed from a benchmark to gameplay is hilarious
HL2 a timeless classic, game runs on literally anything and its a phenomenal title and i highly recommend you play it
I remember playing this game when it first came out. I was 50 at the time. Loved it and all of the Half-Life games. And so many people saying that the 4090 is passé, while I am still rocking my 1070 because the 4090 is so out of my price range. But, I think I'll be able to buy a 4070 sometime next year.
oke you are fake
HL2 is still one of the best singleplayer FPS experiences. The use of physics for gameplay puts it ahead of many modern shooters. I was really hoping Valve was going to port it to Source 2, but alas.
Awesome video, would love to see you test more classic games!
I just grabbed this for free on stream haha, Nice!
Man I and I'm pretty sure other half life fans would want you to play through the series
We'll have to see some Half Life 2 RTX Remix benchmarks once it releases!
I'll definitely test it!
You should actually make playthrough videos as well as benchmark video, you're so entertaining!!
13:54 that scene doesn't look like a 20 years old game :0
I love this game but it made me rage as a kid. I couldn't do the physics puzzles and even on easy the enemies were too hard. I got so fed up I never finished this game or played EP1 or EP2. Just too hard for me as a kid.
you could try running multiple instances of half life 2 simultaneously. I don't think the game uses more than 2 cores( if not less), so running multiple you could really make your pc roll up it's sleeves and ask you to hold it's beer. I think the game has a build in fps counter through the console, so you would just have to combine the fps from each instance. If you can get 1000ish fps @4k on one, I think it might actually scale ok. My guess is that if you should be able to get about 4000 to 5000fps combined. Absolutely loved the video
It's crazy to think when I was first playing HLF2 with 1 gig of ram, Intel Pentium and a ATI 9600. Chugging at like 1024 resolution with 45-60fps. Those shaders/physics were a real FPS killer at the time.
Damn, I played Half Life 2 when it came out in 2004...it was absolutely breathtaking in every way. I never was so blown away by a game again😮
Crysis 1, melted my PC by how awesome it is.
I spent a lot of time destroying buildings and trees.
My GT1030 x I5 3570 - runs it just fine. Fun Stuff. Big Thumbs Up.
thanks for the video i was worried that my 4090 wouldnt be able to run this game
If any of you noticed in the video with the airboat unusually being fast it is caused by getting 1000 fps, essentially in most source games if you were to get 1000 fps (it’s a source engine jank) you get a speed boost, there is a video about this in which 3klikphilips made about on his cs2 video.
Better reflections than most newer games!!!!
Love ur videos sm man!
Loving the vids
I was 15 years old when HL2 came out it was a blast. And now the RTX remaster is in progress sooner or later you will experience it with Path Tracing and a lots of reworked textures and assets.
now all i want is a gta franchise on rtx 4090 video,
Enable AA as it deals with the jagged edges. Higher resolutions mean that it isn't needed. Bearing in mind, HL2 was mostly dependent on your CPU. So anyone could play it.
Omg thank you so much for reminding me to get this game right now since its free at the moment ive been waiting for this moment of getting the game since probably 2016 im not very sure because i was young at the time but thank you so much man ❤
Your aim on 640x480 was wayyyyyy better haha headshots everywhere
I can't believe nobody I know irl played this or even know what it is
fr pioneer of pc gaming
I know many PPL, but again they are mobile players
@@sayankakalita7827 yeah most people I know play on console but only multiplayer games.
Pioneer of DRM @@eno3921
I played it but never finished it. Too hard.
You should stream yourself playing through the half life games! I'd watch that.
YEEEESSS FINALLY YOU PLAY HALF LIFE 2!!
A game I waited for since 1998.
having a higher resolution give you the most performance consuming but the best anti-aliasing.
Edit : After writting this comment, I press play, and he immediatly say what I said.
Great video !
Half-Life 2 was revolutionary when it came out. The graphics were good but the rag-doll physics were amazing for the time. The most annoying thing was that once I put the DVD in, you had to log into Steam to 'unlock' the DVD's files. Steam couldn't cope with the numbers and it took me a couple of days to get it all decrypted and playable which was extremelly annoying at the time. Iirc, I first played this game on my P4 system with an ATI 9800XT at 1024x768 resolution and it struggled quite a bit. 😆
These graphics still hold up, its crazy.
Please, Please, make more vidoes like this. I love it!!!
HL2 was monumental back in the day. Its NPC A.I is still incredibly good even to this day in the later episodes. It was so good in fact, that it's both HL2 and HL3 in one. They just never told us.
Its actually impressive how the reflections in this game look better than modern ray traced noisy reflections that give us 30 fps at 480p with a ton of upscaling
Finally something that can run this at 480p
what about now 😅😂🤣🤣 haa?? your the best i swear!!! love it
Lets goo my favorite game 😍
Just look at this water and reflections. Forgotten technologies of the ancients. Amazing
8:52 Nvidia on promised 8K gaming: see, we just did not mention you have to wait for 20 years for it duh...
13:50 *RavenHolm*
You're a true fan
I notice that you didn't play the Ravenholm level! 😱😱That still scares the crap out of me after 20 years, even with all the fun of getting creative with the gravity gun.
Mann.. this game is a way ahead of it's time
Kryzzp may not be pregnant but he never fail to deliver ✨
Still a better game than 90% of what has been released in the last 10 years
Ah yes, when optimization was top priority for game studios.