If you paid any attention to the character conversations you would get the story out of it. If you missed it it's not my fault and there is various plot guides on the net for you.
Originally posted by: frythecpuofbender
For the guys who don't want to edit every cvar from high to very high I guess this will do nicely: Just paste this into a txt file and call it autoexec.cfg and put it in the config folder. Write protected.
r_displayinfo = 0 (if you want to check fps, set it to 1)
r_GeomInstancing = 1
r_sunshafts = 1
r_UsePom = 1
e_terrain_normal_map = 1
r_UseNormals = 1
r_shownormals = 1
This activates all the nice parallax occlusion mapping for a lot more detail on the ground and the sunshafts are activated. I don't think anymore than this is really needed. The DX10 water functions look a little ridiculous with their giant waves even in shallow waters and the deeper DX10 shadow stuff I can surely live without.
With this activated and all on high I get 20-30 fps on 1440x900 on my machine. It's very playable and beautiful as paradise.
Oh and a reply to the guy who thinks HL:EPISODE 2 has a good story:
Where is it?
You wake up, run around some minutes with Alex, who then dies and you have to wade through some caves to find a herb to help with the weird reviving ceremony. Then you reunite with her and run to get some data to another rebel HQ somewhere in russia. You manage to close the portal over City17 (why didn't it close when the gigantic explosion wasted the citadel, I thought that was the whole point?)
And then as a stupid cliffhanger Alex father dies. (which makes no sense whatsoever. Why are there dozens of friendly vortegons at some remote site but not at the rebel HQ?)
It is hinted that there is a missing science freighter somewhere. where you will find a portal gun which probably falls in the wrong hands in Ep3 and another portal is opened.
Still nothing about the combine's motives, no further plot points or arc for the G-Man, no evolution of the state of the world, more scientists who all worked at Black Mesa (yeah right).
It's just a giant paper chase with physics puzzles and lots of linear corridor driving. I really think they should drop the whole "Freeman has no legs, no arms and doesn't talk-approach. It's getting silly. Half-Life to me is similar to 24. The first two seasons were great and then you realized the makers don't have the balls to tell a real story and just repeat over and over again.
Originally posted by: MTDEW
Bacstar,
It most likely is caused by v-sync and forcing it on will most likely work. (it does the same for me (blackscreen)without v-sync being forced on in the "nvidia Crysis drivers")
But the game crawls with v-sync on, so i reverted back to the latest certified nvidia drivers instead of the "Crysis nvidia drivers" and it runs much better with v-sync disabled.
Originally posted by: Zahriya
This maybe a stupid question but, how do I know if DX10 is enabled? Im running everything on high settings and not too impressed so far. Is DX10 not enabled? Thanks.
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: Ryland
This is probably a stupid question but how do I tell if the demo is running in DX10 mode or not since I am running Vista64 with an 8800GTS.
default is DX10. If you can select very high you are in DX10. Also, it won't use DX9 unless you tell it to.
Originally posted by: Zahriya
This maybe a stupid question but, how do I know if DX10 is enabled? Im running everything on high settings and not too impressed so far. Is DX10 not enabled? Thanks.
Originally posted by: Aenygma
Does anyone know if the demo comes with Punkbuster??
Thanks in advance.
Originally posted by: blurredvision
Well, I hope you guys are having fun, because I can't get the game to run right. The menus and everything work fine, but once I get into the actual game, I get major issues with textures missing and everything being out of place. For example, at the first cutscene, I'm guessing you're in an airplane (because of the scene afterwards where you're falling to the water), all I can see is eye balls floating in black space, and some green text on what I guess is some kind of PDA or something. Sound comes through fine. Once I fall into the water, textures are messed up all over, and I can see what looks to be a very faint outline of rocks and a palm tree leaning to the right. Everything is kind of flickering, it's a complete and utter mess.
I had some old forceware drivers on, so I download the latest WHQL drivers from the nvidia website. Those didn't change anything, so I read about and downloaded the 169.01 "crysis" beta drivers, and those have had absolutely no effect also. Unless there's some magic fix, I'm not going to be enjoying the demo like everyone else. This is one of the main reasons I've given up on PC gaming, it's just too much of a damn hassle.
I'm running a Core 2 Duo @ 2.7, 7800GT, 2GB RAM, Vista Ultimate.
Originally posted by: Regs
So do I still have to reserve it to get the demo?
Originally posted by: ZappDogg
Are you overclocking at all, nefarious?
I get bad input lag if I try to run at any resolution other than the native res of my LCD.Originally posted by: gorcorps
Is anybody else getting terrible input lag? I've changed graphics setting and disabled the logitech driver, but there's still at least a second delay between my keyboard and the movement. Mouse look works perfectly though.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I get bad input lag if I try to run at any resolution other than the native res of my LCD.Originally posted by: gorcorps
Is anybody else getting terrible input lag? I've changed graphics setting and disabled the logitech driver, but there's still at least a second delay between my keyboard and the movement. Mouse look works perfectly though.