Five for Five PC FPS Gameplay Sampler -Part 4- (Half-Life era, and beyond)

0:00 Half-Life - HD Pack that came with Blue Shift
5:00 Halo: Combat Evolved - Running on my WIndows XP Rig
10:00 Red Faction
15:00 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
20:00 Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

For this footage, I focused on FPS games that came out after Half-Life, but before Half-Life 2/id Tech 4. Basically the stuff that would have come out in the early 2000's during the 6th console generation.

I had to break out my Windows XP computer to capture the Halo: CE footage. I couldn't get it to run on Windows 10, not even after hunting down the 1.0.10 patch that is supposed to get it to run. It just wouldn't and I didn't want to used Halo Anniversary footage, but it's just not the same. Who else remembers that Halo was a system resource hog when it hit the PC. There were people who's rigs could max out Doom 3 at the time, but would stutter to run Halo: CE. I had to use my Elgato HD60s, and good old Fraps as the benchmark software.

I just changed out the Radeon HD 4770 I was using for my XP build, and put in the GTX 750 ti I pulled out of my current computer. Unfortunately, it's the Pentium D I had to use for my XP rig that holds it back in games like Crysis. 25 FPS if I'm lucky on my XP rig, but I didn't lower a lot of the settings, so I could probably get more if I tweeked it a little more.

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