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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Right, architecturally it was probably pretty simple. But the minimum system requirements for HL:2 versus the Xbox's hardware is pretty stark:

Half-Life 2 minimum requirements for PC:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Xbox System Specs:

CPU:  Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
Memory:  64 MB (shared with GPU)
Graphics:  Custom NVidia based on Geforce 3

Edit: Definitely meaning the original Xbox and not the 360. Was one of the last games I bought for the original and still have it :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

As a point of comparison, 360 has 512MB RAM. HL2 was targeting PCs comparable to PS3/360, but somehow they got it working on an Xbox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder what corners they cut to get it functional.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

So playable frame rate was the main corner cut.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The 00s Doom reboot shares a similar story, but for the 360!