Half-Life 2 System Requirements: Can You Run It?
- Developer:
- Valve
- Publisher:
- Valve
- Release date:
- 16 November 2004 (19 years old)
- Our user score:
- 4.6 / 5 (995 votes)
Official Half-Life 2 system requirements for PC
These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Half-Life 2 at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.
Minimum requirements
- Graphics card:
- DirectX 7 level Graphics Card
- CPU:
- 1.2 GHz Processor
- Memory:
- 256MB RAM
- File size:
- no data
- Operating system:
- Windows XP/2000
- DirectX:
- no data
Recommended requirements
- Graphics card:
- DirectX 9 level Graphics Card
- CPU:
- 2.4 GHz Processor
- Memory:
- 512MB RAM
- File size:
- no data
- Operating system:
- Windows XP/2000
- DirectX:
- no data
Half-Life 2 performance on your PC
Half-Life 2 performance with your GPU
GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.
Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions
Half-Life 2 FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.
Half-Life 2 performance with your CPU
Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.
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