Half-Life's 17th Aniversery.

Mussels · Nov 28, 2021

ShrimpBrime said:
Open the developers console " ` ~ key" and type in "max_fps 500" (Or w/e number you need)

More like:

Go into keyboard settings, enable console

type max_FPS 0
get errors about needing cheat mode
Type SV_cheats 1
Get errors about disconnecting from the server first

eventually i got it working with
disconnect
sv_cheats 1
max_FPS 0

It treated the background of the main menu as a game level

Deleted member 185158 · Nov 29, 2021

Mussels said:
More like:

Go into keyboard settings, enable console

type max_FPS 0
get errors about needing cheat mode
Type SV_cheats 1
Get errors about disconnecting from the server first

eventually i got it working with
disconnect
sv_cheats 1
max_FPS 0

It treated the background of the main menu as a game level

Many patches ago...(haha, so many updates through the years) - FPS 0 wasn't the way to go... for whatever reason I couldn't remember why today.

Had a lot of key binds for cheat server. Nukes a plenty. Spawning a million barrels and crashing servers. lol.

Cheat mode is way more fun beyond FPS 0 though.

(And I DL'ed lost coast for the heck of it earlier. Still yet to pop it on the 8700K and GTX 980 KPE I'm testing.)

Ralfi · Nov 29, 2021

I started replaying this classic a few weeks ago. It’s still much better than many of today‘s games.

VulkanBros · Nov 29, 2021

Nah....original Half-Life from 1998 published through Sierra with a ATI 9600 Pro/Matrox Mystique and a 3DFX Voodoo card and a AMD K6 CPU.......

AusWolf · Dec 13, 2021

MarsM4N said:
Still have a box of the Half Life 2 - Collector's Edition laying around. Was basically the re-entry drug for Steam & PC Gaming (after C64 & console after console).
Build my first PC extra for it (C2D 8400, MSI 5850 & Asus P5W DH Deluxe). It's already 17 years ago. Gsus, time flies. And still no Half Life 3.

Have to complete my archievments when I get time, so I can put it on my Completionist Showcase on Steam. Did it already offline years ago, but somehow it didn't update on Steam.
The Keep of the Sand Archievment was such a pain in the A!

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Me too!

The "lunchbox edition" of HL2 was the first ever Collector's Edition of any game that I bought.

F-Zero said:
Here is a Hercules Radeon 9800 PRO with a unused Half-Life 2. Working in a P3 1.4 Ghz, Asus TUSL2-C, 2x256 Mb SDR 133Mhz Memory. I run the Lost Coast bench see the results below. View attachment 226910 View attachment 226911 View attachment 226912 View attachment 226913

Jesus Christ, that ATX connector placement on the motherboard! :roll:

The days before bottom-mounted PSUs... :rolleyes:

Nice system, anyway!

Although, I seem to remember a bit more FPS with my 9600 XT back in the days. My memory might be a bit faded, though. :wtf:

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