Half Life 2 Episode 2
About Half Life 2 Episode Two:
Half Life 2 Episode 2 is the sequel to valves original Half Life 2. With the ending of episode one of Gordon Freedman leaving City 17, we find the ourselves in the country side with a vast surrounding environment. Once escaped from City 17, Gordon finds himself carrying important information that contains the location of the combine home world and information on how to stop the combine from opening the super portal and receiving a greater combine invasion.
Playing in such a lush environment we find the need for a higher performing hardware.
Benchmarking Half Life 2 Episode Two:
For benchmarking Half Life 2 Episode Two we will be using a combination of FRAPS and the built in timedemo. Similar to Doom 3, to run the timedemo you must first open the console and tell the game to run the time demo. Unfortunately Half Life 2 Episode Two doesn’t include a built in timedemo as Doom 3 did, so we decided make a recording where we felt the game stressed the components the most. To open the console you simply press “~” and type “timedemo <Demo_Name>” to run the timedemo.
Benchmark Results:
Similar to Doom 3, we maxed out the settings on Half Life 2. For a detailed list of which settings were chosen you may look at the pictures below.
Shown below are the results of running the game on max settings. For running the AMD Phenom 9950 at stock speeds (2.6GHz) we were able to receive 51.95 frames per second. But when we overclocked the processor to 3.0GHz we achieved 53.39 frames per second. Overall both results are remarkable and extremely playable, although we were expecting to see more of an increase running on the overclocked settings.
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AMD Phenom 9950 @ 2.6GHz
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AMD Phenom 9950 @ 3.0 GHz
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is also preparing for a Monday launch of its new platform built around the new Phenom processors and the 700 series chipsets. While we are hearing nice things about the flagship 790FX chipset that will also be launched next week, the expectations are all about the processors, especially because it will give current AM2 socket motherboard owners the possibility of swapping and upgrading to the new generation of CPUs without having to change additional components.
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Very good information! I am also having good success at 3.0 ghz so far. Thanks for the hard work on putting this together