Half Life 2 on 8MB of VRAM!

Опубликовано: 12 Апрель 2026
на канале: Budget-Builds Official
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Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today I am finally going to do what I promissed and get Half Life 2 running on just a measly 8MB of VRAM...But not just that we're going to get this running at as close to 60fps as we can. So join me for a 3D Phantom spin off of sorts as we find out can Half Life 2 really be so well optimised that with enough tweaks (and a low enough set of settings) that it will run at 60Fps on just 8MB of VRAM...No need for RTX here we dont even have lighting effects.

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Half Life 2 is Fairly Well Optimised
0:51 - Some Back Story on Performance
1:21 - The 8MB Graphics Card we're using!
2:28 - Stock Performance
3:14 - Applying every low setting under the sun (genuinely no setting was lefft untouched)
4:28 - Live Demo of Half Life 2 on 8MB VRAM!
14:51 - Conclusion

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Specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64
GPU: 3D Phantom 2800XP ... A really cut down SIS305 with 8MB
RAM: 1GB DDR
OS: Windows XP Home 32bit