What card you got?
If it's Geforce you might want to pre-order that new card now. Apparantly Nvidia class cards really suffer a performance hit because of the way HL2 uses DX9 Pixel Shaders 2.0.
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COCKLES,
Fri 19 Sep 2003, 15:25,
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That'll be a Radeon 9600 pro...
:D
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BeAst - did it wrong on:,
Fri 19 Sep 2003, 15:27,
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