Originally posted by: biostud
yet a game where 2Gb is recommended
nice read
Originally posted by: TerracideDK
More facts:
HDR & You...
To be able to experience the Best Quality setting, you will need a graphics processor that is capable of 16-bit Floating Point filtered textures, 16-bit Floating Point targets with alpha bend support, and Shader Model 3.0. The lower quality mode will require 16-bit Fixed Point filtered textures and Shader Model 2.0 support.
This means that the preferred cards to run HDR are as follows:
Low Quality HDR:
* ATi 9600 Series cards
* ATi 9700/9800 Series cards
* ATi X600 Series cards
* ATi X700/X800 Series cards
* ATi X850 Series cards
* nVidia 6600 Series Cards
* nVidia 6800 Series Cards
* nVidia 7800 Series Cards
High Quality HDR:
* nVidia 6600 Series Cards
* nVidia 6800 Series Cards
* nVidia 7800 Series Cards
Terra - Wonder what the visual difference will be...
Originally posted by: hooflung
The question is will HDR be supported in Cedega 4.4 on Linux with my Geforce 6800 with the unlocked pipes and shader?!
Originally posted by: xtknight
Low quality means emulates HDR with pixel shaders (I think). High quality means it uses the FP32 OpenEXR HDR (right now only available on NVIDIA 6 and 7 series).
Originally posted by: TerracideDK
HDR has to be seen in motion, no stills will give it justice...
FarCry NOHDR vs. HDR Video (Filetype: wmv, 31MB)
Terra...
Originally posted by: Emultra
Wee, this should mean that my GF 6600GT will be able to display the HDR as it should look. I'm not gonna get very good framerates, but it's just a tech demo anyway. I'll get to see the goodies.
Originally posted by: Unkno
Originally posted by: Emultra
Wee, this should mean that my GF 6600GT will be able to display the HDR as it should look. I'm not gonna get very good framerates, but it's just a tech demo anyway. I'll get to see the goodies.
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Originally posted by: ronnn
Originally posted by: Unkno
Originally posted by: Emultra
Wee, this should mean that my GF 6600GT will be able to display the HDR as it should look. I'm not gonna get very good framerates, but it's just a tech demo anyway. I'll get to see the goodies.
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Don't be too sure about that, valve has done a very good job of making the game accessable to most systems.
Originally posted by: Unkno
Originally posted by: Emultra
Wee, this should mean that my GF 6600GT will be able to display the HDR as it should look. I'm not gonna get very good framerates, but it's just a tech demo anyway. I'll get to see the goodies.
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Initial systems: However, all is not lost, if you excuse the pun. The system used to demonstrate the game to us today was an Athlon 64 3800+ with 2GB of RAM and a GeForce 6800GT - high end for many people, but not stratospheric. If you needed further proof, the 1024x768 2xAA screenshots featured in this article were taken on a 1.6Ghz Centrino notebook with only 1GB of RAM and an aging 128MB FireGL graphics card. True, it ran at 10FPS at High Detail, but it was playable enough to appreciate the overall achievement.
Originally posted by: thatsright
Do you have to BUY this?? For 15 minutes of total game time.....F that!!
Originally posted by: Bartokomus
I noticed zero difference moving from my 9800Pro to my 6800 Ultra OC in Half Life; i had the goodies maxxed on both cards and there was just no discernible diff. I think Valve will pull this off with good performance