Half-Life 2: both episodes - does either one have Phys-X?

I have a PC without any Phys-X, and I had a lot of problems with Dark Sector: I'm attributing the problems I had to Phys-X, as the installer forces you to put it on your drive, even if you don't have the hardware.

Does HL2 have Phys-X? Thanks.

I don't think it uses Phys-X, it uses it's own engine with Source.

The only game in recent memory I was prompted to download Phys-X was Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

I don't think it uses Phys-X, it uses it's own engine with Source.

The only game in recent memory I was prompted to download Phys-X was Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

Anthony01355

Thanks, Anthony.

np.

Half-Life 2 uses the Havok physics engine

Almost all modern games are implementing this now. I don't know if you are aware that Nvidia owns the rights now and is implementing the technology into its graphic cards. I think there are games that are helped by having the software installed whether or not you have the physics card but HL2 didn't use this technology. Overall I doubt this is the problem but you would have to tell us exactly what problems you are having to get more of an idea.adrake4183

My desktop is almost 4 years old. Whenever the character was wounded, immediately I saw slow-motion animation, continuous screeching sound, and then a locked-up PC when I continued on to the point of the next cutscene (I was still in the prison). As long as the character never got shot, the game worked fine (for the few minutes I could play).

Please don't flame my PC (*lol*), I've got 13 other uber-games that run without errors.

Dell XPS 600

Pentium IV 630 w/H-T @ 3.0 GHz (2 MB L2 Cache)

2 GB Dual-Channel DDR-2 SDRAM @ 667 MHz, 800 MHz FSB

GeForce 7800 GTX (nVidia Driver 182.50 dated 2 April 2009)

XP SP3 (100% Updated - "Custom" always selected on MS Update)

MB Chipset: nVidia nForce4 SLI X 16 Intel Edition

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