Half-Life System Requirements

The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 510. To play Half-Life you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400. The minimum memory requirement for Half-Life is 4 GB of RAM installed in your computer.

Half-Life will run on PC system with and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.

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Half-Life FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

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