HL2 hardware tip [no spoilers]
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I've pried myself away from it after an 8-hour session. Wow.Drool.etc. Blows the snot out of that wannabe Doom3. X| I was worried about my video card holding up, it being an All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB (couple years old, ATI doesn't sell them anymore). Also lots of game freaks were panicking their 6 month old card wasn't going to give them 120 fps:rolleyes: Folks, this thing surprised me. Everything except AA turned on, 1024xwhatever, water reflections to ALL, there was no jerkiness, or hiccups. The game warned me at startup I needed new drivers, but I tried the old ones first. The only difference was the water flickered a bit with the old ones. The scenery is magnificent, and gives the feeling of a huge area. A mixture of outdoor, indoor, underground tested the card well. I haven't seen a framecount yet, but it plays well so far. P.S. If someone gets through Water Hazard (the yeehaa! airboat mission), drop me a clue how to get past the "2 fishing boats-dead end" area?:(
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I've pried myself away from it after an 8-hour session. Wow.Drool.etc. Blows the snot out of that wannabe Doom3. X| I was worried about my video card holding up, it being an All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB (couple years old, ATI doesn't sell them anymore). Also lots of game freaks were panicking their 6 month old card wasn't going to give them 120 fps:rolleyes: Folks, this thing surprised me. Everything except AA turned on, 1024xwhatever, water reflections to ALL, there was no jerkiness, or hiccups. The game warned me at startup I needed new drivers, but I tried the old ones first. The only difference was the water flickered a bit with the old ones. The scenery is magnificent, and gives the feeling of a huge area. A mixture of outdoor, indoor, underground tested the card well. I haven't seen a framecount yet, but it plays well so far. P.S. If someone gets through Water Hazard (the yeehaa! airboat mission), drop me a clue how to get past the "2 fishing boats-dead end" area?:(
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Steam is driving me mental! finally created an account after about 2hrs, and have been trying for the last 2 to login with it. Havent even seen the startup screen yet. Grrrrr
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are you sure?? i registered with steam in like 5 min. (including time when they sent me the email) IM PROUD TO BE A GMAIL;
yup, started at about 8 this evening and Im now, at just before 1am, finally about 3/4 of the way through 'a download'. I wanna play, but I gotta get up in the morning. Could just be slow but the stats on the site dont seem as bad as they have been. I donno.
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yup, started at about 8 this evening and Im now, at just before 1am, finally about 3/4 of the way through 'a download'. I wanna play, but I gotta get up in the morning. Could just be slow but the stats on the site dont seem as bad as they have been. I donno.
Didn't want to wait for 4.5GB to download, so bought the Collector's edition (Gold) this morning. It comes on DVD. There is no doubt when the first automobile race occurred. It was when the second automobile was built. - Richard Petty
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Steam is driving me mental! finally created an account after about 2hrs, and have been trying for the last 2 to login with it. Havent even seen the startup screen yet. Grrrrr
Yeah, STEAM was being a b*tch earlier today. It finally let me play saying it would verify the cd key later.
This demographic will quite happily click on shiny things however:laugh:
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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I've pried myself away from it after an 8-hour session. Wow.Drool.etc. Blows the snot out of that wannabe Doom3. X| I was worried about my video card holding up, it being an All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB (couple years old, ATI doesn't sell them anymore). Also lots of game freaks were panicking their 6 month old card wasn't going to give them 120 fps:rolleyes: Folks, this thing surprised me. Everything except AA turned on, 1024xwhatever, water reflections to ALL, there was no jerkiness, or hiccups. The game warned me at startup I needed new drivers, but I tried the old ones first. The only difference was the water flickered a bit with the old ones. The scenery is magnificent, and gives the feeling of a huge area. A mixture of outdoor, indoor, underground tested the card well. I haven't seen a framecount yet, but it plays well so far. P.S. If someone gets through Water Hazard (the yeehaa! airboat mission), drop me a clue how to get past the "2 fishing boats-dead end" area?:(
Richard Jones wrote: I've pried myself away from it after an 8-hour session. I've been waiting 5 years and it absolutely delivers, made it just past Ravenholm but had to stop due to advanced lack of sleep. I've had no glitches of any kind, but I also preloaded it weeks ago so we started playing at 12:07 am this morning. It was ready exactly at 12am but took 7 minutes to unlock all the game files. Then I said I'd play only for a couple of hours at most and it was 6:20am when I finally said enough is enough. It's not that it's hard (well it is in places) it's just so immersive that it's hard to stop. My only complaint and it's very minor is that it seems there are many situations that you can't finesse or stealth your way out of, you simply have to shoot away. I don't know if this is just because I was too impatient to take the time or not, but there were a couple of areas in "Water Hazard" that just begged to sneak around in and it turned out the only option (I could work) was to go nuts blasting away. Not sure where the 2 fishing boats dead end area is, there are so many dead ends and fishing boats in those canals, but I used a combination of burning at high speed past the really huge obstacles like the tanks and parking and sneaking up on the guards to take them out then going back for the boat. There are many places that give the appearance that you can't go past them at first but it turns out you can if you take a closer look, and there are a great many places where you either can't do the most obvious thing at all, or you can't do it until you do something un-obvious (but in the end logical) first. I can't imagine how much work it must have been to test this and ensure no one could do anything wierd by accident - you have so much control over your physical surroundings...being able to pick up just about anything and move it around, stack stuff, jump up on it etc. There's sure to be some places they missed that people are going to figure out how to do something really bizzare and unintended by the designers. Must have been a testing nightmare with such a good physics engine behind it. It must have really changed the face of game design in a lot of ways. Very little seems scripted to work only in a certain way. Most games in the past that let you do these kinds of things were really just going through a limited pre-ordained series of motions that were scripted in advance, this is much more like the real world. I hate rushing through because I ke
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Richard Jones wrote: I've pried myself away from it after an 8-hour session. I've been waiting 5 years and it absolutely delivers, made it just past Ravenholm but had to stop due to advanced lack of sleep. I've had no glitches of any kind, but I also preloaded it weeks ago so we started playing at 12:07 am this morning. It was ready exactly at 12am but took 7 minutes to unlock all the game files. Then I said I'd play only for a couple of hours at most and it was 6:20am when I finally said enough is enough. It's not that it's hard (well it is in places) it's just so immersive that it's hard to stop. My only complaint and it's very minor is that it seems there are many situations that you can't finesse or stealth your way out of, you simply have to shoot away. I don't know if this is just because I was too impatient to take the time or not, but there were a couple of areas in "Water Hazard" that just begged to sneak around in and it turned out the only option (I could work) was to go nuts blasting away. Not sure where the 2 fishing boats dead end area is, there are so many dead ends and fishing boats in those canals, but I used a combination of burning at high speed past the really huge obstacles like the tanks and parking and sneaking up on the guards to take them out then going back for the boat. There are many places that give the appearance that you can't go past them at first but it turns out you can if you take a closer look, and there are a great many places where you either can't do the most obvious thing at all, or you can't do it until you do something un-obvious (but in the end logical) first. I can't imagine how much work it must have been to test this and ensure no one could do anything wierd by accident - you have so much control over your physical surroundings...being able to pick up just about anything and move it around, stack stuff, jump up on it etc. There's sure to be some places they missed that people are going to figure out how to do something really bizzare and unintended by the designers. Must have been a testing nightmare with such a good physics engine behind it. It must have really changed the face of game design in a lot of ways. Very little seems scripted to work only in a certain way. Most games in the past that let you do these kinds of things were really just going through a limited pre-ordained series of motions that were scripted in advance, this is much more like the real world. I hate rushing through because I ke
John Cardinal wrote: Not sure where the 2 fishing boats dead end area is, I'll try not to give it away for others, but the spot has 2 APCs shooting sitting on a C-shaped wharf shooting rockets at me as soon as I enter. 1 boat is in the middle of the water, and I think I need to get under the wharf to use the ramp to get out. Sound familiar? There is no doubt when the first automobile race occurred. It was when the second automobile was built. - Richard Petty
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Didn't want to wait for 4.5GB to download, so bought the Collector's edition (Gold) this morning. It comes on DVD. There is no doubt when the first automobile race occurred. It was when the second automobile was built. - Richard Petty
I looked into getting the CE, but my DVD drive is acting up, and wont read DVDs, so just the normal edition for me. :( I would love to play HL1:Source too, just to see how the oldie looks now. The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
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I looked into getting the CE, but my DVD drive is acting up, and wont read DVDs, so just the normal edition for me. :( I would love to play HL1:Source too, just to see how the oldie looks now. The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
Atlantys wrote: I would love to play HL1:Source too, just to see how the oldie looks now. Nothing spectacular like HL2. New water effects are terrific. You can start a new game from any chapter (they give you most of the weapons and some ammo). May be my imagination but the textures look less grainy. Can't think of any others. The HUD disappears when I go above 1024x768 for some reason. There is no doubt when the first automobile race occurred. It was when the second automobile was built. - Richard Petty