We presented the generalized performance for the DirectX 9.0b-9.0c generation of video cards in the 3DMark 2005 synthetic test and the gaming applications Half-Life 2, The Chronicles Of Riddick.
Compared to 3DMark 03, the size of the newly-minted 3DMark 05 has increased by one and a half times and now occupies 280 MB in the archive and 633 MB in the expanded state. System requirements have also changed. Now operation requires a processor of at least 2 GHz, at least 512 MB of RAM, and a graphics accelerator with support for pixel and vertex shaders version 128 with a memory capacity of at least XNUMX MB.
Half-Life was created by Valve in 1998. The fantastic adventures of a simple laboratory assistant, Gordon Freeman, in the top-secret research institute Black Mesa and on the otherworldly planet Xen revolutionized the first-person shooter genre
The game takes place in a world familiar to fans of sci-fi action films from two Hollywood blockbusters. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - the background to the films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick from Universal Pictures.