NVIDIA & Half-life 2

Dom · Jul 23, 2003, 07:57 PM

Thanks to NewsFactory for letting me know about this.

"This news article would have you believe the following:"

Quote:

The highly-anticipated Half-Life 2 game will have a major bug with current DirectX 9.0 hardware resulting in impossibility in enabling Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing, a popular feature that dramatically improves image quality in games. Apparently, there is a limitation in DirectX 9.0 and/or DirectX 9.0-compliant hardware that will not allow the function to be enabled on certain graphics cards if the workaround is not found.

The developers of the legendary Half-Life game said that drivers are not likely to solve the problem, however, it still can be solved for graphics cards based on VPUs from ATI Technologies, such as RADEON 9500-, 9600-, 9700- and 9800-series. As for NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce FX-series, there are practically no chances to find a workaround, according to Valve.

"A friend at NVIDIA has let me know that while the current release of drivers, referred to as Rel40 do have this problem, the Rel50 based drivers will not. The drivers, which will be more commonly known as Detonator 5.x will hopefully be available by the time Half-life 2 begins shipping."

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Source: NTFS

NewsFactory · Jul 23, 2003, 08:08 PM

Let's hope NTFS are right or they'll be a lot of unhappy 5900 owners out there!

Erroneus · Jul 23, 2003, 08:31 PM

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/show...&threadid=3071 maybe there are a ssolution

Jul 23, 2003, 08:31 PM	#3
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Jul 23, 2003, 08:08 PM	#2
NewsFactory News Guru Join Date: May 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 0	Let's hope NTFS are right or they'll be a lot of unhappy 5900 owners out there!