Half-Life 2 G-Man Video

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• i don't know why it would be, but maybe it's a problem with the video/video capture? it is pretty annoyi... : ermac
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  That is probably an artifact of the compression algorithm. I doubt you could produce the same effect i... : MrLobo
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    Nope Pixels are definitely missing. : sharkII
    • I SAID: Pixels are dropped/changed by video compression. That is a perfectly normal optimization for ... : MrLobo
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    haha It could be this... ...but I have no experience whatsoever with the topic at hand. ;D : wunderbred
    • ... I work all day on a 3d renderer and video playback/compression ... ktnxbye : MrLobo
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      There's a difference between saying he hasn't watched the video and saying he has no experience at all wi... : cacktrot
      • image that space filled with more than one space, but less than infinity : cacktrot
  • no, if I remember correctly it had the same problems when I saw it at E3 : ease_one
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  Looks like the seam where the neck and shoulders are joined. Very annoying considering how nice everythin... : malevolence
  • i second this. distinct pixels like those would take extra to compress then to not be there. tiny details... : zeroprey
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  Bitch bitch bitch. I find it funny that when a new video (small and truly insignificant in regards to the... : K1Bond007
  • People are drawn to negative stuff by nature. Sad, but true... : Kayn
  • Uhhh!! Don´t complain on my Half Life 2!!! Buhuu *sob* : Spike Spiegel
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  You see the same white pixel effect around parts of his chin, and it does look more like a video compress... : MatthewPhillips
  • Even if it isnt the video compression if its the same video from e3 than its like based on technology tha... : slicerd
• I noticed that, it was kind of annoying. Hope it doesn't happen in the finale game. That sort of thing is... : seven
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  Looks like z fighting to me. : koder
  • I'm talking crap. It's T-junction seaming. Nothing to do with video compression that's for sure. : koder
• u can always blame it on ati :) : SlamDunk
• Whats up with steam? I click on the Gman vid and I get a message saying "preparing to launch" and it just... : Fa1con

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  Congrads on your baseless statement. This game is going to be able to lower it's details dramatically. ... : kingdepork
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    I don't know, I'm willing to bet the minimum requirements will be a 1Ghz with a GF3. : K1Bond007
    • I'm willing to bet the requirements will be around 600 mhz w/ a TNT 2. Of course, the engine will have sc... : gregorybrown
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      According to Valve themselves it's going to be somewhere from a 700-800mhz with a TNT2. : Carnivac
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        Its going to run on the XBOX so that shuold give you and idea of how far down in can go. : slicerd
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          Xbox will end up being fairly middle of the road. While it's proc is down low it's a fixed platform so c... : Carnivac
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            Yeah will it really depends on how much they optimize it and I guess that comes down to how much M$ pays ... : slicerd
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              M$ TEH EVAL EMPIRE. Ok dude. : Carnivac
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                What was that all about I actually own an Xbox and dont have any real problem with M$ I was just saying V... : slicerd
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                  The Odyssey games on Xbox are being published by MS. MS didn't do anything beyond the usual publishing d... : Carnivac
                  • Wait so you are telling me that you dont think M$ didnt give he people that made the Odyssey games any mo... : slicerd
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                  I have real problems with M$. : davew2040
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                    i have no respect for anyone who refers to microsoft as M$. : skold
                    • It's not a habit that I'm comfortable with, but I'm just using it for thread continuity. And I think your... : davew2040
                    • Everytime I see somebody refer to Microsoft as M$ I have to remember this Penny Arcade strip: http://w... : Aubrey Philipsz
          • it is SO memory limited though : ease_one
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          Coming from someone who owns but isn't particularly a fan of an XBox, I'm sure it'll look great on it. Ke... : Serpico74
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            But really there is no way it will look as good as the computer. Take Vice City and look at the PC versi... : slicerd
            • OF COURSE it's not going to look at good as it does on a decent PC. No-one is arguing that. We're just ... : Carnivac
    • So? That configuration is 3+ YEARS old for christ sake. : [7]kami
  • They always low ball system specs in order to sell more copies. Simple tactic that has been used for year... : IcomeINpeace

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  k, just checked, its not backwards. what is it then? : FoX3D
  • foreign language : enigmatic
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  It's just a showing of how he can switch to talking in a different language without much effort. He's ta... : AtaR1
  • anybody getting a little screen tearing and mis-synched speech in certain parts? : vassili_zaitsev
• dude was speaking madarin mofo. : vassili_zaitsev
• It's called Mandarin. lol : abubu
• He says "Where the hell is Duke Nukem Forever?" : V0lk
• He's saying something like "Too bad we can't cooperate further" or something to that effect I believe. : Cpt. Baseballbat

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• Yeah I think I read some question Gabe answered somewhere where he said they would love to look at doing ... : gl2 drivers
• A fur shader would be great for the upcoming Teletubby mmorpg! : Aubrey Philipsz

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  you should play through Half-Life regardless...especially since you can get it free now : enigmatic
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    where? : suicidemachine
    • On Steam. : Geoffrois
• It's a fun game. Yes : Serpico74
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  The bad part about the steam version is you don't get the music, which was one of the best parts of HL. : walther
  • IAWTP !! You must have the music for Single Player. : Madwacker
  • i always turned the music off. hated the cd accessing. : grendel
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    There was music? Wow. I never knew that. I always turn off redbook music in video games. I hate the f... : RatBastard
    • omg, the music was such a HUGE part of the atmosphere... : johnny rotten
• Uh, yes. YES. : Kayn
• Yes, get it and get Opposing Force and Blue Shift. Did I forget something? : Aubrey Philipsz

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  Whoa! Just checked. Mine is doing background downloading too! : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Pay no attention that. Valve is not secretly downloading programs to monitor how much you are anticipati... : starvey
    • Where am I.....who are you...what are you doing in my computer? : smacknca
  • Mine finally stopped and I dont see any other media files in the directory. I wonder if, since they use ... : smacknca
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  it's like bittorent, no? we are now upload peers : multisync
  • I thought of that but my traffic was all down, only saw it spike up twice for a 1-2 seconds each. My und... : smacknca
  • From what I have read, Steam does _not_ use your upload bandwidth, it's not like bittorent or any other p... : gl2 drivers
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  I think it's an average from the past x number of minutes, and it just takes a long time for that average... : suqur
  • Umm, then why were the send/receive lights on my DSL modem still flashing? I'm betting on pre-sending som... : gregorybrown

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• Maybe it'll actually work in the end... : freak!
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  Noper, but it's slower than death ;) : MatthewPhillips
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    People have been bringing down 700k/s.. I'm gettin over 400 right now.. : freak!
    • Indeed, me too. Says good speeds. However, I downloaded the video from Fileshack just now, after waiting ... : MatthewPhillips
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    Hardly, I am getting it as fast as I would off of fileshack. : Turd Ferguson
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      Really? Do what I did. Download it from Fileshack AND Steam at the same time, and see which comes down fi... : MatthewPhillips
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        It took like 8 min total to download from Steam so I'm unsure of what you speak of.. : freak!
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          Sigh. Here's my PIX of Steam downloading (sorry no DIVX): http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/wrath/Steamed.gif ... : MatthewPhillips
          • It's showing kilobits not kilobytes. : Carnivac
      • that is exactly what I did and steam finished long before fileshack. : Turd Ferguson
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    I d'knae...I constantly pull in >1 MB/s. One of the servers must be next door. :D : Rice-Rocketeer
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      Meh. Fileshack gave me 140k download speed and so I grabbed the file in about 8 minutes (after waiting in... : MatthewPhillips
      • bits != bytes : pinkeye
• How good is it. I'm stoked, It might actually hold up to the release of HL2. ! : seven
• Steam is such a pig on client-side resources though, at least network bandwidth. : dengar65

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• Um, wasn't it a personal decision to use the spoiler tag? You can't believe that you chose to use it?? : davew2040

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• Yeah this is their MPEG2 DVD-a-like codec. : Carnivac
• It used to be called Smacker. : Ben Barker
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  but for the majority of people who cannot run at a decent fps with 4xAA... : johngloid
  • Then stick with Halflife1. ;P : ZeroDegrees
  • hey if you cant afford a dx9 card (all of which are able to do 4x fsaa at reasonable resolutions) then yo... : johnny rotten
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  Actually the seams are NOT something you need AA to take care of, its a fault in the rendering engine. Th... : yakz
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    either or then. If there's an engine setting, cool. If not 4xfsaa for me!! : johnny rotten
    • actually 4xfsaa for me anyway, i want this thing to be the prettiest ever.... : johnny rotten
  • q3 had this problem all over the place when a bezier curve was lined up with a regular brush/polygon. I ... : ease_one
• Haven't seen it but from descriptions here I'd guess they're T-junctions. Ie not something AA fixes. It's... : Sebastian Sylvan
• HL2 will take advantage of 256M cards, so turning on FSAA with a 128M card probably wouldn't get you the ... : Turd Ferguson

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• omg omg omg PLUS new footage not shown at e3 omg omg omg : johnny rotten
• HOLY SHIT!!! Thanks for the link. : gl2 drivers
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  Its sweet but if you think about it this clip was about 30 seconds long and the e3 trailer was about 15 m... : slicerd
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    True, but it's better that having nothing happen like it has been since e3. I'm happy even seeing the foo... : gl2 drivers
    • Yeah its cool but we might stil have to wait another couple weeks to see anything new or much less see th... : slicerd
  • They are going to release it one clip at a time, and there were what 8 or nine sections from the E3 video... : Turd Ferguson
• +30 informative : [7]kami

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  or the modelers screwed up. ;) : ltrls987
  • You're fired! : pigvomit
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  Eyes in RL are very very rarely symmetrical, so it lends a lot of realism to the character. Since the hum... : Colonel Angus
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    I just looked in the mirror at myself and covered the reflection of my eyes and I looked so fake! : bigimp
    • Turn on FSAA x 4. : [7]kami

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• errr ummm ... poo : Snifter_42

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• try at different screen resolutions perhaps? : melt_core

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• yea, no big deal. they can fix that, i'm sure. : FoX3D
• antialiasing will clean that up in a pinch : johnny rotten

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• Uh... no! I love the Matrix, but HL has its own life =) : blashy
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  I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before someone whips that one up.... : johnny rotten
  • With the ease of importing the sound file and then just letting the engine lip synch it..I'm sure some mo... : Madwacker

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• you enjoy old men make faces while watching you? : FuzzyOnion

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• ashkie has, if you know where... : gregorybrown

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• Everyone's having that happen. They still have the rest of the E3 vids to release, remember? : gregorybrown

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• It's just the intro. There will be plenty more movies to come. : kingdepork
• that's how hype-ing works : FuzzyOnion
• bear in mind that is the model and animation quality you WILL be getting in game... : johnny rotten
• Actually, I'm happy they did this -- I'd actually rather see the face up close, since I've already seen F... : phreakshow

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• I give you permission. : Antilles_Prime
• i believe so, its a higher quality version of a video which has already been released : Malk
• I think I remember Valve saying that if people got it off STEAM first (or from Shack) they could then do ... : Madwacker
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  Its mirrored for people who know where to find such things. : ashkie
  • Thanks, sir. : freak!
  • ty very much :D : r4ja
  • Thanks. You rock. : Geoffrois
• So now that i know where to find such things am i "Officially" a shacker now? (Damn I Finally figured... : mtjt3

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• www.steampowered.com : Madwacker
• This steam thing is crazy, it has a bunch of 400mb files and folders in it's SteamCache folder, and entir... : pizzaknymp
• Its a new and improved BSOD generator. : Topaz
• steam n. The vapor phase of water. A mist of cooling water vapor. Pressurized water vapor used for h... : Speedy8

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• Were I one of said middlemen, I'd be a little uncomfortable, right now. Sort of like music publishers aft... : seven
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  dunno i quite enjoyed it to run to the store to buy my cds. and i don't thing that it will be much cheap... : Hoax
  • But even saving 10 buck would be sweet I could then get some more stuff because I always need more stuff : slicerd
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  With limited bandwith and for a game like that which is probably going to be installed and reinstalled fo... : Geoffrois
  • yeah thats also a strong argument against it if its not possible to make a cd backup of the files. but if... : Hoax
• hey dude there are still middlemen with the whole hosting deal as well. perhaps just not as many : para:dig`m

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• http://us.imdb.com/Title?0159696 ? : celerity
• Thats just air your breathing : slicerd

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  what are you talking about? : dltrem
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    bink videos are self-contained .exe's. You can run command-line switches on the exe to get it to do diffe... : gregorybrown
    • like what? : dltrem

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• thats why another partition with win is no bad idea. : Hoax
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  i could convert it to Divx, but the filesize will probably be around the same size, I dont have anywhere ... : Shadowdane
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    bittorrent? or another p2p. just an idea. ah btw tyran the final game wont have a linux port. so i gues... : Hoax
    • i can do a bittorrent of it.. : Shadowdane
    • I have a windows machine at home, it's just that I'm at work, and my desktop here is a linux box. :) : tyrian
    • http://www.torrentse.cx/download.php/HL2-G-Man.divx505.avi.torrent -- My max upload is 256kbps : Shadowdane

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• Yeah, I missed it twice... would be nice to have a pop-up or something. : smart1
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  get mercury = problem solved : malloc
  • It used to be automatic,now I have to click the link-the one that's good for five minutes. : brutal

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  I have a LinkSys router. Works just fine here. : stelth
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    Are you using DMZ or did you use any port forwarding? : Peter Gibbons
    • I have linksys befw11s4 and it works fine for me.. no fwding or DMZ : malloc

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• pulls out tweezers ... Your'll watch the video or we'll start tweezer-ing! : brutal

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• No spoilers. It's just a tech demo of the character muttering a few insignificant words. No biggie whatso... : K1Bond007

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• nevermind, I got it :D : r4ja

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• I agree! : stelth
• Macromedia-esque contextual menus...good! : MatthewPhillips