TomClancey wrote:That's exactly what was I thinking. RAM alone will not help. You could have 4gb of RAM, but getting 1 more GB and say, an nVidia GeForce 6600GT would help a lot more.
Also, do you run 32bit or 64bit? I sure hope it's 64bit, because 32bit can't use more then 3gb of RAM. (At least, I'm pretty sure it's only 3gb.)
Nope, it's 32-bit. I know it'll only recognize like 3.5GB or whatever. RAM will help a little, and if nothing else it'll definitely help speed up my other computer performance, like reloading all 15 of my FF tabs and Windows Aero and stuff. It's about time I got an upgrade anyway. I did it because all the PC's these days, even the crappy sub-$500 ones, ship with 2GB of RAM.
The original blog post of the guy is
here, if you wanted to see it. He does give some Portal parameters, and I think the game actually does run better with them. Although it didn't lag as much as HL2 when I first got it, so I can't notice too much of an increase without fraps. But I was anxious to test HL2, so I quit portal and loaded it up and the increase in Portal was nothing like the god-fast boost HL2 got. All I cared about at that point was the fact that I got from almost finished Water Hazard to halfway through Ravenholm (I hate this level) with mostly almost no lag whatsoever.
Well, I'm going to church nao. Be back later. Happy Easter, everyone.