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"Half :ife 2 : The Lost Coast"

"One feature that we'll be adding to the Source engine in the coming months is high dynamic range lighting. To showcase this we've taken a part of the Highway 17 chapter of Half-Life 2 and worked it into a single level that incorporates HDR along with some new gameplay. We're calling this short level "The Lost Coast," and it will be made available free of charge to Half-Life 2 customers that meet a specific set of high end hardware requirements. We'll be publishing those requirements soon."

Good stuff. Can't wait. Have a small amount of dread regarding what "high end hardware requirements" entails..............

poopots wrote:
> Well I’m thinking for ATI cards the 9800 series will be the minimum
> and for Nvidia the 5700 series. They seem the most logical to me, if
> it’s any higher valve have ruled out a large amount of the gaming
> community, only 1% of PC owners have top end cards.

Cool. I'm in the one percent. ;)

The autodetection of hardware requirements sounds a little dodgy. So what if your machine can't run it? Surely it's your choice if you want to down load it?

I don't think valve are worried about alienating part of the market. It's an experiment in dynamic lighting by the looks of it, and not something they are aiming to make money out of. :D

Well I’m thinking for ATI cards the 9800 series will be the minimum and for Nvidia the 5700 series. They seem the most logical to me, if it’s any higher valve have ruled out a large amount of the gaming community, only 1% of PC owners have top end cards.

Aparantly, it'll detect your system specs. to see if your machine is capable of running it.

I hope my 9800pro scrapes in, im sure my 3200+ and 1gb of ram will run it fine.

Pandaemonium wrote:
Have a small amount of dread regarding what
"high end hardware requirements" entails..............

Same here

Heh OK...I think I'm gonna go play HL2 then :)

Lipe wrote:
> Lets play CS:S :D

Aye, be on in a little while. Installing visual studio, the service pach and the nokia series 80 sybmian SDK. I *might* be some time.........

I read about these levels ages ago. Wondered when they were getting round to releasing them... Not that my computer could run them.

Lets play CS:S :D

Lipe wrote:
> Yeah read about this yesterday, looks promising. And it's all for free
> :D

Aye, free is always good, especially with valve's past standard of freebies.
On a side note, I've just realised how pointless the original post was as anyone using steam will have read it.

I'm hungover. sue me. ;P