ATI Catalyst 5.10 (October 2005) Performance Analysis

Half Life 2

Version and / or Patch Used: Unpatched

Timedemo or Level Used: Custom Timedemo

Developer Homepage: http://www.valvesoftware.com

Product Homepage: http://www.half-life2.com

Buy It Here

By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.

We benchmark Half Life 2 with our own custom timedemos as to avoid possible driver optimizations using the "record demo_name" command and loading the timedemo with the "timedemo demo_name" command - For a full list of the commands, click here.

Half Life 2 shows similar a picture to Far Cry, the X850XT gains the most performance with the X700PRO getting a nice performance increase at the lower resolution and the little X550 gains next to nothing.