Hello, I was wondering if BMS will run great with my nVidia Geforce 7300 GT, you guy’s do realize that upgrading video cards are not easy. hopefully it will.
Anybody can they please tell how well this will run. It’s one of the bestest mods ever and i really want it to run well when it’s realeased.
Well since Raminator is calling the mod “Black Mesa: Slideshow”… You could expect it to run alittle slow…
it still the havok engine so it should perfect, hl2 runs perfect with my geforce 7300 gt so it should run nice and smooth hl1 also ran well.
With a 7300 GT?
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Actually, it depends. If you have an Orange Box game such as TF2 or Episode Two, and you can run it fairly well; you can run Black Mesa.
Edit: Yeah, mate. “Havok” is simply the physics in the game. Half-Life 2 has lower system requirements than Episode Two; and Half-Life is almost 11 years old. Even my shitty Pentium 3 can run it at 60 fps at max settings with a GeForce 5200 FX.
Wat. Money for it, maybe not (they can be pretty cheap for a half decent one though), but installing any new video card can take under 10 minutes.
Also, IIRC, if it’ll have high system requirements then Episode 1. I think that info’s also in the FAQ though.
Strong Bad?
On topic: I am on a laptop with onboard video (Mobile Intel 4 Series Express) and 3GB of RAM. I can run indoor sections of Episode 2 (Our Mutual Fiend, etc) acceptably. It’s not smooth and beautiful and I have to use low settings, but it’s not a slideshow either. In fact, most of Ep 2 was acceptable. The only portion that wasn’t was the strider battle in White Forest. Slideshow City. > 
I believe BM will run acceptably on this laptop as, as far as I know, there aren’t too many extremely wide open sections in the entire HL game – Xen doesn’t really count too much because there wasn’t much in the outdoor sections. I could be wrong.
I was playing Ep 2 a bit ago and when the hunters were attacking inside the silo of Our Mutual Fiend, it was smooth as silk, believe it or not. I think that the inside sections of OMF is possibly an acceptable benchmark for BM. But, again, I could be wrong.
There’s still a lot of optimization we could do. I expect as we bring in optimizations (particularly LOD for our character models and particle effect tweaks) we’ll get performance within acceptable bounds. I am hoping we’ll achieve consistent 30FPS on either the 8400M or 9400M. It’d be nice if people could play BMS on a reasonably priced laptop and anyone that bought a current video card in the last 2-3 years should be fine. The 7300GT is pretty old, I think you should ask for something a little more powerful for Christmas.
I am on a laptop with a 2gb ddr2, has a Nvidia Geforce 7300 Go shared memory, I overclocked the shit out of it so it’s running at 450mhz, and my CPU is an intel T7600, overclocked the shit out of that too… anyway HL2 Ep2 runs at like 100FPS (forced dx8.1 mode) settings all max (except AA/AF and dx8.1) res 1024x768 windowed mode on windows XP.
Good Luck! I think that will run BM acceptably on my card too, but if not I’ll just play on my desktop which has 8800GT.
I have it, and don’t have problems with the orangebox games doh…
BM should run fine on my new i5 750, 4 gb DDR3-1600 RAM, GeForce 285 2gb. 
God it was expensive, but it’s going to be worth it.
Seeing that this game is not as power-demanding as Crysis or Dead Space and can run on a Macbook, it should work on your system.
No. It’s from Zero Punctuation.
I am hoping ep2 is a good guage as to what Black Mesa will do. However I need a new monitor. My 19" went kapoot and now I am using a garage sale 17 inch monitor that wants to crap out on me.
:whimper:
I’m getting my 4890 for $189. I wish I had waited so I could have the money to grab the AMAZINGLY priced 5870. New computer will be here soon and I can stop running TF2 like this
400$ for a GPU? That’s fuckin’ madness!
theoretically, if you can run episode 2, you can run Black Mesa. If you do have trouble, just let me know and I’ll teach you how to use -dxlevel 81
It beats the shit out of the GTX 295, a $500 dollar dual-gpu card, plus, the 5870 has only one processor.
I’ve only got a 6800XT, 1.5 Gb of RAM, and an Athlon XP 2400+, and I can run Episode 2 acceptably with most settings on high, a few on medium, with AAx2, Aniostropic filtering and such.
Black Mesa, yes/no?
Maybe, but I would turn off AA if I were you.
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