{"id":86,"date":"2007-03-22T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T14:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:03:58","slug":"the-geforce-6150-isnt-for-half-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"The nVidia gForce 6150 mobile graphics card isn\u2019t for Half-life 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my laptop performance review. I have a HP dv2000 laptop with a geForce 6150 and AMD Turino 2x I&#8217;m evaluating. It will play Quake 3 with a resolution of 1024&#215;768 at a surprisingly great framerate, but not Half-life 2.<\/p>\n<p>Half-life 2 stutters (or should say flat stops) for whole 2-5 seconds at a time even with almost everything turned off at 800&#215;600 &#8211; definitely not playable in the outdoor scenes. However, you can turn things back up and get 30fps inside the buildings. It does play flash games very nicely at full-screen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.de-animator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deanimator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/118826\" target=\"_blank\">Madness Interactive<\/a>), has snappy UI in Vista, runs Photoshop CS2 without much effort, and (outside of Half-Life 2) would have been my laptop choice. However, there is a Core 2 Duo with a geForce 7100 for about $75 more, so I think I might go for that since graphics performance is theoretically x2 and the cpu&#8217;s are Intel. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my laptop performance review. I have a HP dv2000 laptop with a geForce 6150 and AMD Turino 2x I&#8217;m evaluating. It will play Quake 3 with a resolution of 1024&#215;768 at a surprisingly great framerate, but not Half-life 2. Half-life 2 stutters (or should say flat stops) for whole 2-5 seconds at a time even with almost everything turned off at 800&#215;600 &#8211; definitely not playable in the outdoor scenes. However, you can turn things back up and get&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=86\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}