Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by gattilorenz on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:26AM (#30929390)

> came with Half-Life 2

I think mine came with Vietcong, which was... underwhelming.

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by lovehashbrowns on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:33AM (#30930157)

Is that the game that had this in its soundtrack? https://youtu.be/fuYL-keoGvU

I still listen to it on occasion. Don’t even remember how I found that song because I’ve never played that game, I don’t think.

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by gattilorenz on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:41AM (#30930538)

Yes, the soundtrack and setting was objectively the best part of that game

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by bayindirh on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:32AM (#30929442)

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.

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by poglet on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:34AM (#30930161)

I got the 9600XT for Half-Life 2 which was kinda silly in the end since HL2 took so long to come out that I could have gotten a newer card. However I believe it also came with a copy of Counter-Strike Source Beta which I enjoyed greatly. My card had tiny LED's on it that prevented me from sleeping with my computer on. Great times.

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by gattilorenz on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:55AM (#30929592)

I guess it depends on who made the card? Probably Sapphire and MSI and others had different bundled stuff (maybe also different by country, and I'm in EU)

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by ricardobayes on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:47AM (#30930231)

Just shows how big the markup was, to be able to bundle a 60$ game with a 300$ card.

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