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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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574 points Philpax | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 22:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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donatj ◴[16 Nov 24 00:40 UTC] No.42153037[source]▶
In 2007 when The Orange Box was released, Half-Life 2 took forever to load on my dual-core Athlon 64 X2. It would run but the levels would take a solid minute to load. At the time I figured it was some incompatibility with the multiple cores as that was still rare and a lot of other software gave me trouble with it at that time.

I tried to play it much more recently, maybe six or so years ago on an Intel MacBook before they broke 32-bit, and once again even on modern hardware the game took FOREVER to load.

Maybe this is just my experience? I haven't heard anyone else complain about the terrible load times?

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1. deeringc ◴[16 Nov 24 02:26 UTC] No.42153602[source]▶
I don't think dual core was that rare in 2007. Conroe was released the year before. For gamers, dual core was the standard at that point (at least from what I remember of the time).