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Can the XPS 15 9530 run Half-Life 2?
Half-Life 2 by Valve: the publisher’s own minimum requirements, compared with this exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
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- Operating system — meets (Windows 7, Vista, XP; this laptop: Windows)
- RAM — the publisher does not state a requirement
- Graphics — this laptop's graphics chip is not recorded vs Feature-level-only requirement (DirectX / OpenGL / memory size, no chip named): not rated yet
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- Half-Life 2 system requirements · publisher requirements
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
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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