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Can the MacBook Pro (14-inch, M1 Pro, 2021) run Half-Life 2?
Half-Life 2 by Valve: the publisher’s own minimum requirements, compared with this exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
Does not meet minimum requirements
Half-Life 2 lists Windows 7, Vista, XP as its supported platform and the MacBook Pro (14-inch, M1 Pro, 2021) runs macOS.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Half-Life 2 system requirements · publisher requirements
Published requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- 1.7 Ghz
- GPU
- DirectX 8.1 level Graphics Card (requires support for SSE)
- OS
- Windows 7, Vista, XP
Sources and limits
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- Valve (Steam) — Half-Life 2 on Steam — System Requirements · retrieved 10/6/2026
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