353
Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs
(www.tomshardware.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
353 points (98.6% liked)
PC Gaming
14833 readers
293 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
phone resolution is only 240x320. do it again at 1600x1200 (what my 19in trinitron from that era runs at), or even just 1024x768.
Who actually ran HL1 at 1600x1200 or 1024x768 in 1998 unless they had a high-end PC? The minimum requirements basically expect 320x240.
As an aside, I'm really, really tired of people quoting the larger number after the smaller number for landscape resolutions. X goes BEFORE Y, damn it! I know this is the publication's fault, because they did the same thing in a different article.
To be fair, not far from your average crt monitor in 1998, maybe 640 x 480.
It's four times smaller, though, so enough to make a significant difference
800x600 was perfectly fine on my (family computer) 1997* era ATi Rage Pro 8MB AGP (funnily enough, it was slightly slower than the PCI version) card for Half Life 1. 1024x768 too but less FPS. Quake 3 Arena ran better.
I ran Half-Life at 400x300, because I didn't even had a 3D accelerator.
What?! Was I so privileged to have a 720p CRT at the time? (ok well not literally 720p, but a higher resolution 4:3... 800x600)
... actually remembering it, it was probably well after 1998, but I have plenty of memories going, "mmmm, 800x600". maybe even more at 1024x768.
I only really started to understand what it all meant and how neat better resolution was with Unreal Tournament, so... definitely post 1999
800x600 is 600p. 720p is 1280x720
600p should be 1024 × 600 (WSVGA), perhaps someone also uses it for 800 × 600 (SVGA). In any case, nobody used that notation back in the day, that came in the 2000s with 720p.
In my defense it was 720i for a good while for tv signals ;P Also different aspect ratios than a lot of even excellent CRTs.