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bypass steam (no, not hacking) by Supersonicdarky on 08-11-2006 at 03:20 PM
i have half-life 2 and it runs fine, when i want to download hl2-lost coast, it says that my pc doesnt meet system requirements. Originally lost coast was meant to be part of half life 2, but was removed. If hl2 runs fine on my pc, why wudnt lost coast. So is it possible to make it think i have a better system?
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by alexp2_ad on 08-11-2006 at 03:26 PM
Well, Lost Coast uses some fancy new lighting system that wasn't in HL2, and it does run worse on my PC in the same resolution and all that, so it probably as good reason for net letting you in.
I know that wasn't helpful at all, but just letting you know why it'd let you run HL2 but not LC. 
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by RaceProUK on 08-11-2006 at 03:36 PM
If Lost Coast uses a lightling model not in HL2, maybe you need to upgrade your DirectX and graphics drivers.
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by brian on 08-11-2006 at 04:05 PM
HL2: Lost Coast actually uses HDR (High dynamic range) lightning which is a really new & advanced technology only avaliable on DirectX 9 cards.
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
* brian starts HL2: Lost Coast
=P
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by ShawnZ on 08-11-2006 at 05:35 PM
Its not just HDR -- lost coast runs on non-hdr hardware as well, it just disables hdr functionality. However, lost coast doesn't just showcase HDR, its a showcase for all the technologies they were working on for HL2 that never got included. So yes, it does take much better hardware than HL2 even if HDR is disabled.
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by user27089 on 08-11-2006 at 06:32 PM
It doesn't take amazing software to be able to run Half Life 2: Lost Coast.
Either way, it isn't really worth the download, you may aswell just buy Half-Life 2: Episode 1, it has the improved features of Lost Coast and better AI.
Lost Coast is just a tech demo.
I can run Half-Life 2: Lost Coast at 4x AA and Everything else on full with V-Sync (not antiscoptric filtering)
ATi Radeon 9600 Pro
1gig Ram
2.13GHz AMD Athlon CPU. (Single Core)
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by Mike on 08-15-2006 at 07:28 AM
quote:Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
Originally posted by brian
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by John Anderton on 08-15-2006 at 08:45 AM
quote:SHIT ... soooo true
Originally posted by Mike
quote:Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
Originally posted by brian
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
Seriously, games are that good looking now?!?!
PS: whats AA stand for?
I havent played any of the latest games for ages but my god thats good. Wtf are its requirements O.o I know HL2's requirements (for full graphics) are quite high but that image is insane!
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by Mike on 08-15-2006 at 08:58 AM
quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
PS: whats AA stand for?
Anti-aliasing
quote:
Originally posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing aliasing (jagged or blocky patterns) when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution.
RE: RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by alexp2_ad on 08-15-2006 at 09:26 AM
quote:Don't be silly... real life doesn't have anti aliasing.
Originally posted by Mike
Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by Thor on 08-15-2006 at 11:23 AM
quote:I agree, that image is insane!
Originally posted by John Anderton
quote:SHIT ... soooo true
Originally posted by Mike
quote:Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
Originally posted by brian
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
Seriously, games are that good looking now?!?!
PS: whats AA stand for?
I havent played any of the latest games for ages but my god thats good. Wtf are its requirements O.o I know HL2's requirements (for full graphics) are quite high but that image is insane!
It really looks.. real RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by ShawnZ on 08-15-2006 at 11:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
quote:SHIT ... soooo true
Originally posted by Mike
quote:Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
Originally posted by brian
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
Seriously, games are that good looking now?!?!
PS: whats AA stand for?
I havent played any of the latest games for ages but my god thats good. Wtf are its requirements O.o I know HL2's requirements (for full graphics) are quite high but that image is insane!
sigh... if you think source with hdr is amazing, then you haven't played any games...
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by Mike on 08-15-2006 at 03:13 PM
quote:Can you give examples of other games that their graphics look like they were real?
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
quote:SHIT ... soooo true
Originally posted by Mike
quote:Sorry for getting offtopic, but OMG that screenshot looks like real!
Originally posted by brian
http://www.wireless-life.de/wp-content/hf2-lc1.jpg - That's a screenshot with an HDR capable card, notice the brightness of the light is much different, the reflection on the ground...
If it only was in a bigger resolution, and it had some AA, it would be real!
Seriously, games are that good looking now?!?!
PS: whats AA stand for?
I havent played any of the latest games for ages but my god thats good. Wtf are its requirements O.o I know HL2's requirements (for full graphics) are quite high but that image is insane!
sigh... if you think source with hdr is amazing, then you haven't played any games...
Thanks
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by John Anderton on 08-15-2006 at 04:02 PM
quote:I never said i had played any games with amazing graphics
Originally posted by ShawnZ
sigh... if you think source with hdr is amazing, then you haven't played any games...
You cant deny that the pic does look quite realistic.Tbh i like games that look decently realistic and have really good gameplay. Gameplay >> Graphics.
Tho graphics need to be good looking, they arent a priority for me. It just shouldnt have any "loose ends" visually, so to say
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by wj on 08-15-2006 at 04:08 PM
Going further off topic, If you want some amazing graphics.
http://www.mystvgame.com/us/
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by cloudhunter on 08-15-2006 at 06:53 PM
Yeah, look close on a real object and you can actually make out the pixels
RE: bypass steam (no, not hacking) by kao on 08-15-2006 at 10:34 PM
Ghost recon advanced warfare looks pretty fine, not the best screenshot but here it is on 1280x1024 maxed with Anisotropic x16.
http://k4o.info/x/graw.jpg
just a quick one i took so it doesn't show that much off tbh.
(just an example because someone seemed to think only hl2 HDR looked good which is far from the truth =p).
Also, go look for videos of Crysis.