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High end Half Life 2 expansion

by Adam deGrandis · in General Discussion · 04/11/2005 (5:20 pm) · 9 replies

Check out the article here.

I for one cant wait. It sounds awesome.

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#1
04/11/2005 (5:29 pm)
Sounds cool, but you need a hell of a machine to run it... I better try and upgrade :(
#2
04/11/2005 (7:15 pm)
Quote:there's no doubt that a hugely significant chunk of its owners went out and upgraded their rigs with the specific intention of playing Valve's game without compromise, in all its staggeringly gorgeous glory.

Me for one!
#3
04/11/2005 (7:15 pm)
Noooo! I only have 3.06 GHZ!
#4
04/12/2005 (3:23 pm)
SLi anyone?
#5
04/12/2005 (3:36 pm)
Anyway, it said when I updated yesterday that they will be releasing a new chapter named "aftermath" next week.

That should be cool
#6
04/12/2005 (3:37 pm)
A 3.06 and a 6600gt or 6800gt will be fine for this expansion Garett.

They mean people still running 9800s and FX5950s will need to upgrade as those cards will not handle the new features. Some of the features are geared towards PS3.0, though one of the valve guys recconed that 2.0b (on the X800 ati cards) will also be supported. He seemed a bit uncertain though when I grilled him about it.
#7
04/20/2005 (7:42 am)
I only have a radeon mobility 9000 :(
#8
04/20/2005 (8:06 am)
Yeah I was pissed at valve for not getting source to work with my 5900 in dx9.

it only works with dx8.
#9
04/27/2005 (5:49 am)
There is a movie of Lost Coast on fileplanet. Click here.

Looks fantastic... makes me wonder if something like that could support rolling clouds dynamically changing the lighting of a whole scene.