Same boat here, but I do own HL2 and Ep. 1....  Also I'm not even sure my pc will run it decently enough to be playable.  I saw Sully's PC run it, and I am pretty sure his is much better than mine, but I could be wrong....Sully what are you running again?

I am running an Athlon64 3200+, 1GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6800 GT OC (256MB). It stutters a bit when the map first loads, but once everything is cached in the VRAM it's pretty damn smooth, so you shouldn't have anything to worry about with your system.

I have a 3.46GHz Celeron, 2G RAM, and a GeForce 6800 GT. Setting are all set to max with 1024x768, AAx4 and AF on. Was running pretty smoothly but I'll probably notch them down a bit to get a smoother gameplay (although it may have been the server I was playing on making it jump from time to time).

ShadoHawk, is your server up constantly? If so, what's the IP/Name?

Maybe if we get enough people from FITES playing this we could spring for a server? That'd be pretty cool!

I have a ventrilo server I'm using atm(sorry to all those TeamSpeak addicts) that I'm hosting on my machine. If any of you wish to use it. I'll be gone for an entire week starting this coming saturday ...means my pc will be down... but when I get back it should be up 24/7.

IP: 72.95.42.174
Port: 3784

17 user limit, highest quality codec.

The game provides voice already.

No just too many servers have alltalk on. (sv_alltalk 1) So you can't coordinate with your teammates. The ingame voice on most servers is just your team.

Vent used to have better clarity back a few years ago but I don't know if vent still has that advantage anymore.