Half-Life System Requirements

Half-Life system requirements state that you will need at least 4 GB of RAM. An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU is required at a minimum to run Half-Life. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 510.

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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