This is the most pointless release of Catalyst ever.
SmartShader? What the heck? And what am I going to after the first 30 minutes of tinkering with it?
All games are scripted.
Think of linear scripting as a tree.
Think of the nonlinear scripting as a tree with branches.
That just means, instead of a single process and outcome, there are multiple processes, and different outcomes.
Highly improbable. It would get too messy. Just how many of the people that fired it up an downloaded it could be in Russia or China? How many could be in the U.S. and be minors?
They won't spend the time and money to hunt down potentially thousands of people.
It wasn't compiled from the source, but stolen from Valve along with the source.
But that's not the point
You HAVE to call me a moron?
Don't be uncouth, grow up, instead of flaming left and right.
HL2.net Forums: Attack of the Abjects.
lol.
Errrrmmm let's look at it this way.
The ALPHA version of Doom III looks better than the BETA version of HL2. Now we don't know which'll be the best looking in the end, but right now IMO, Doom III has the upper hand.
If HL2 ships with those awesome DX9 shaders we saw in the HDR video, it...
In a forum with 10,000 users, it helps users recognize people that they want to recognize. So much easier.
I know D33, |CC|Hudson, etc. all of their avatars, and I instantly know who they are just by seeing their avatars.
You'd be surprised the effects a 6 month delay can have on the sales of a game.
You say it is stupid logic. Look around you. Mainstream game = more fans = more people with "stupid" logic.
And lose all their shareholders. HL2 is/was Vivendi's last hope for the year. Oh, there goes HL2, and there goes the shareholders, sell sell sell. :dork: