Now that you've seen what improvements Half Life 2's DX9 path can give you, let's take a look at the price to pay for some of those impressive visual effects. In order to measure the impact of the DX9 path we did the following: ran benchmarks using both the DX8 and DX9 paths...
TheirHalf-Life 25th anniversary documentarywent so well that they invitedSecret Tapeback to make another one — this time focusing on Half-Life 2. And it's about a lot more than just the making of a game. Running out of money. Getting hacked, and an early version being leaked online. B...
Note:Retrieved December 19, 2024 (applies to Half-Life 2 since 20th Anniversary Update). Some of these commands may not present on previous versions.Bug:Some cvars have it's description cut-off due to hitting the ~128 character limit. This issue (related to cvarlist) also applies to most...
With the Episodes and Lost Coast now contained within Half-Life 2 itself, we'll be reducing the visibility of the standalone versions on the Steam Store. The old standalone applications will remain available to ensure community projects that rely on them still ...
Note:If you encounter issues (such as some textures rendered as white/black or completely transparent) when playing a Source mod which mounts Half-Life 2 files, or installing a custom addon/mod made prior to the update, you might need to downgrade the game to "steam_legacy - Pre-20th ...
Game developer Valve launched their Source Engine with Half-Life 2. HL2 is a game that offloads some of the work to the CPU, so it is a good test for the latest graphics cards as well as overall syste
Half-Life Episode Two is powered by the Abyss engine, the successor of the Trinity rendering engine, which supports the following features: Rewritten BSP renderer; Rewritten Studio renderer; Full multi-pass per-pixel dynamic lighting; High resolution real-time shadow-maps; ...
While starting Half-Life using a multi-monitor setup, the game appears on my second monitor instead of my primary one This was easily solved by changing the resolution and moving the window over, but I'll still have to move the window over after every launch Native Distro:Arch Linux Kernel...
2 hours overall< 1 hour on Linux Proton 7.0-4 Distro:SteamOS Holo Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb RAM:15 GB GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc) GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf...
Is it synchronization (comparison) and not "delete entire backup/copy entire resource", so it does not reduce lifetime of SSD with unnecessary writes, among other things. A small drawback is that there is no comparison of files by content, but only by attributes+size (fast/non-demanding)...