Whats the Recommended RAM for HL2

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Nick Le Lievre - 25 Jul 2006 16:14 GMT

I`m thinking of running HL2 and Counterstrike Source on this system

Duron 1800 mhz
640mb SDRAM
Geforce 6800 Non Ultra

Whats the recommended Ram for this game 1GB ?

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Tim - 25 Jul 2006 21:37 GMT

> I`m thinking of running HL2 and Counterstrike Source on this system
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> Whats the recommended Ram for this game 1GB ?

I recently upgraded from 1 to 2GB, and stuttering noticeably
decreases when HL2 was run with a heapsize of 512MB
('-heapsize 512000' on the command line). The biggest
peak memory usage I've ever seen in HL2 was ~740MB,
after a 3-hour session.

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Philthy - 26 Jul 2006 01:33 GMT

The biggest stumbling block on this system is the SD RAM, it's much
slower than the newer DDR RAM. Going to the newer RAM makes a
noticeable difference. You'd need a new MB to use it though.

Phil

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Marcus Redd - 26 Jul 2006 10:41 GMT

> I`m thinking of running HL2 and Counterstrike Source on this system
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> Whats the recommended Ram for this game 1GB ?

Hey, it's naughty Nick Le Lievre from uk.adverts.computer or something! I
used to read the posts about you - how's it going these days? IIRC, there
was something prohibiting you from owning a computer at one point - that's
obviously passed now. Fascinating stuff.

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