Author Topic: New Half Life 2 Very High Res video (Read 1036 times)

udet · « **Reply #30 on:** September 17, 2003, 09:38:40 AM »

nice graphics indeed:

comparison

Nilsen · « **Reply #31 on:** September 17, 2003, 09:50:23 AM »

with that kind of difference i wonder what HL3 will look like......prolly photo realistc

LePaul · « **Reply #32 on:** September 17, 2003, 10:07:18 AM »

Just catching up, wow. He sure slammed nVidia.

But as the Tom's article pointed out, he should be wary. One million nVidia owners would like to buy/play his game. That's a nice market.

Its an on going saga...I still run the Ti 4600 and have no idea when, or what, I'd upgrade to. I've had ATIs in the past and wasnt particularily wow'd. This nVidia has been painless to own, update, and use in everything I play.

I just hope it'll play Half Life 2

Skuzzy · « **Reply #33 on:** September 17, 2003, 11:07:18 AM »

It will LePaul, just without most of the eye-candy and details.

The FX line has been pretty well shown to be a massive failure in terms of DX9 compatibilty and performance. It's really not Valve's fault. They went with the API specs, NVidia didn't. Simple.
Heck, Valve spent an addtional 5 months programming a specific path for the new NVidia cards and they still ended up being rather unplayable with all the details cranked up.

Valve did it right. NVidia is just behind the performance curve for DX9 games. Next generation cards should be better from NVidia. They just misjudged how fast games supporting DX9 would come out.