Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
"They're waiting for you Gordon, in the tessstchamberr..."
Can't believe it's been almost twelve years since the release of the original Half-life..
I still remember reading a review in a Belgian magazine (Printed on paper!) and going to the store to buy a copy.. I spend most of christmas 1998 deep inside the 'Black Mesa' complex. HL1 was one of the first games that had a strong story told through numerous scripted events, and the entire game was one long level, not seperate short levels like most shooters of that time.
Recently I found Half-Life 2 and the episodes 1&2 and after playing through those I thought:"Well why not try and see if the original still works?" I did not have much hope for a twelve year old game to work in Windows 7 64-bit but it works just fine! :d
After installing I applied a patch (The one that came with the 'Opposing force' add-on) I made a profile in Nhancer in which I set both the anti-aliasing and the anisotropic filtering to the maximum values to compensate for the maximum resolution of 1280x960 on a 1680x1050 monitor. Framerates (Anyone remember the command to test that?
) range from 250 to 600 fps and no, that's no typo! 
Loading times? I've seen microstutters in FSX that lasted longer..
Granted it looks like an old game, but the gameplay is still great after all those years.
Only problems I've had so far are getting stuck in an elevator from time to time (Though IIRC that problem occured twelve years ago too) and one 'trigger' not working alright leaving me at a closed door.
Some screenshots:
Can't believe it's been almost twelve years since the release of the original Half-life..
I still remember reading a review in a Belgian magazine (Printed on paper!) and going to the store to buy a copy.. I spend most of christmas 1998 deep inside the 'Black Mesa' complex. HL1 was one of the first games that had a strong story told through numerous scripted events, and the entire game was one long level, not seperate short levels like most shooters of that time.
Recently I found Half-Life 2 and the episodes 1&2 and after playing through those I thought:"Well why not try and see if the original still works?" I did not have much hope for a twelve year old game to work in Windows 7 64-bit but it works just fine! :d
After installing I applied a patch (The one that came with the 'Opposing force' add-on) I made a profile in Nhancer in which I set both the anti-aliasing and the anisotropic filtering to the maximum values to compensate for the maximum resolution of 1280x960 on a 1680x1050 monitor. Framerates (Anyone remember the command to test that?
) range from 250 to 600 fps and no, that's no typo! Loading times? I've seen microstutters in FSX that lasted longer..
Granted it looks like an old game, but the gameplay is still great after all those years.
Only problems I've had so far are getting stuck in an elevator from time to time (Though IIRC that problem occured twelve years ago too) and one 'trigger' not working alright leaving me at a closed door.
Some screenshots:
