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Steam Update
by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 04, 2005 3:05pm PSTA new Steam news update is now available, with more promises of new content coming soon. They are still judging HL2DM contest maps, but will release a new map of their own around the same they are releasing a new Counter-Strike: Source update (these updates are promised to happen during "the next month or so"). In other news, HDR support is coming to the Source Engine
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.The news item includes some concept sketches from this new singleplayer map. byorn points the way to this site to give you an idea of what HDR does...or you can head over to FileShack and check this HL2 movie from last year.
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I hope Valve clears up that before introducing all this fun HDR Lighting...
Cause right now, my 6800GT doesn't like something about specific Source lighting and drops my fps from 120+ to less than 20...
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Since when did they remove the cd-check?
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CS:S and HL2:DM - do these games have bot support ?
Would like to practice offline.
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http://firingsquad.com/hardware/far_cry_1.3/
http://download.developer.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/featured_samples.html
There are 3 HDR demos, I think the "HDR Deferred Shading" one illustrates the basic concept the best. If you download it, the file you are looking for to run is in teh /DEMOS/Direct3D9/bin/release directory.
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Damn the morons over at Valve and their incompetence at setting up the Steam servers to handle the load placed on them. There is *NO* excuse whatsoever for having a system that doesn't allow users to play their SP games because their servers are overloaded nearly every time they release significant new content.
And damn the game designers for making a game worth putting up with this shit for.
Neato. But then again when I think about it, this happened with HL too. The texture improvements after a few years (used to be capped at 256x256 if I'm not mistaken.
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I have a feeling ATI owners will be left out in the cold on this one like they were in Farcry.
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..the pay-for-content is coming soon it seems..
anyone else want to place bets that the rest of the game 'hdr'd' will be available for an extra charge..
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The concept sketches make the level look pretty damn cool though.
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