Posted by Stark

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But it's a team game. You could be on his side.

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"I never really was on your side."

(That said, TF2 is farly easy to learn how to play. But I play a legit version of the game and come on... it's only 20 USD now!)

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Posted by Tyty

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Sorry, no TF2

My laptop can't run the Orange Box.

I even have the DVDs right here.

And I am sad.

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There's some ways getting TF2 and similar games to work on crappier hardware.

...unless you laptop REALLY sucks.

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Well keep in mind there's pretty much four active generations of the Source engine. It's roughly something like the following:

Half Life 2 [Supports DirectX 7-8?]
Half Life 2: Episode one (This is the generation some pre-OB games belong to as far I recall, such as Counterstrike: Source). [Supports DirectX 7-9]
Orange Box (HL2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat Source, Garry's mod) [Supports DirectX 8-9]
Left 4 dead [Dropped support for DirectX 8, DirectX 9 only]

A common trick to get Orange box games running on crappier hardware is to force DirectX 8 mode on them. Defiantly the first thing I would try too. The L4D generation dropped some cvars (such as mat_picmap which controls texture quality.... why?), while Orange Box added a few neat ones (like the infamous mat_queue_mode that enables/disables multi-threading).

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