At what screen resolution will you run Half-Life 2 in?

At what screen resolution will you run Half-Life 2 in?

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1280x960, every setting maxed out.

any modern computer, with an X800XTPE, or a 6800 Ultra should be able to do that.
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even with hardware like that to keep a constant fps of over 60 is not likely. i would know, i have this hardware:

p4 3.0c oc'd to 3.6 ghz
x800 xt plat
1 gb (2x512) ocz pc3700 eb platinum
2 120gb seagate sata in RAID 0
etc etc

i play cs source with 1280x960, every setting there is high as it can go, and get about 60 fps. it goes lower in intense gunfights, and higher in less tense areas. having the game running at a crazy high resolution (above 1600x1200) like your talking about with every setting maxed, you wont be able to uphold 60+ fps. maybe if you have somethin like an amd fx 55 with 2 gb of ram u MIGHT...
 
Probably 1088x612 (16:9).
I play CS:S at 1024x768 or 1280x960 (4:3).

Need that AA/AF though.
 
1280X1024 of course. :) It should look amazing. (running a X800 XT PE) :cheers:
 
1600x1200 for me. I have my 6800gt 256 OC'd to Ultra speed, and I think it should be just fine. Hell, I ran Doom 3 at that res at ultra settings before overclocking my card and it ran like silk.

My other settings, BTW, are 3.2P4 HT, gig of ram, 200 gig SATA HD, and an Audigy 2. Should be just fine, but I think I will want to try to see how I like the widescreen mode.
 
1024 and everything maxed, cannot see the difference for anything higher anyways on my 19' monitor without taking screenshots and overlaying them.
 
i dont understand these idiots who run resolutions like 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 with max. AA... anything over 2xAA at such high resolutions is not only unnecessary, but it makes the image blurry... all you kiddies with 6800's or x800's and running max AA at high resolution, give your cards to someone who actually knows how to use em right, and go get an Xbox or something instead...
personally im gonna run it at 1152x864 with 2xAA and 16xAF and everything on max. on my overclocked 9800 pro 128mb... i did 70fps average and 40fps min. in the stress test with this setup
 
Asmodeus666 said:
all you kiddies with 6800's or x800's and running max AA at high resolution, give your cards to someone who actually knows how to use em right, and go get an Xbox or something instead...
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know how to use them right? i see no reason why not to put the aa and af up high with high resolution when your card can handle it. as far as im concerned the reason for these high end x800's and 6800's is so that you CAN run at high resolution with features like aa and af enabled.

so apparently im an idiot because i pump the aa and af up high with a good resolution with my x800 xt plat... yea good call...
 
serum.157 said:
know how to use them right? i see no reason why not to put the aa and af up high with high resolution when your card can handle it. as far as im concerned the reason for these high end x800's and 6800's is so that you CAN run at high resolution with features like aa and af enabled.

so apparently im an idiot because i pump the aa and af up high with a good resolution with my x800 xt plat... yea good call...
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i never said anything about AF
i was talking about AA, and how anything over 2x is unnecessary and blurs up your image at high resolutions... so yes, you are an imbecile for
A) running anything over 2xAA on anything over 1024x864
B) not knowing what AA and AF do since all you're interested in is running them as high as possible
C) not knowing how to read properly

stick to gamecube and xbox
and simple vocabulary
 
no need to start flaming at ppl here buddy. you may be right about not seeing a difference between 2xaa and anything higher at 1024x768, but i havent tried to see the diff and nor do i care to. my card can handle higher easily so there is no point in toning it down.

i think your just flaming at ppl on these forums cause lots of us have high end cards cause we want to maximize our hl2 experience and you dont have one. that may or may not be the case, but the point is quit flaming at everyone over something stupid like that and just being all immature about it.
 
You know that's funny cause I run Painkiller at 12x10 with full AA and AF, and it doesn't look blurry in the slightest bit. Of course what do you expect from a 2 poster? Dipshit
 
serum.157 said:
no need to start flaming at ppl here buddy. you may be right about not seeing a difference between 2xaa and anything higher at 1024x768, but i havent tried to see the diff and nor do i care to. my card can handle higher easily so there is no point in toning it down.

i think your just flaming at ppl on these forums cause lots of us have high end cards cause we want to maximize our hl2 experience and you dont have one. that may or may not be the case, but the point is quit flaming at everyone over something stupid like that and just being all immature about it.
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do you have cerebral palsy or some form of brain damage? if i remember correctly i mentioned anything higher than 2xAA making your image blurry at least twice... last i checked thats not a desirable effect in image quality...
there should be licenses to buy these cards, like a sort of test to make sure you're not a complete f*ckin imbecile... just like they should ban SUV's for people who drive them on the streets to go to work
 
my aa is at 6x, and it definately is NOT blurry at all. but thx for the advice.
 
if you cant notice the blurring you probably dont need more than a radeon 9600 or somethin... you probably cant even tell the difference between 16af and no af
 
Chill, Asmodeus. How people use their graphics cards is their business. It's not doing any harm to anyone if they're not using settings that give optimal results. Personally, I'm on a 3 year old PC (I like to get my money's worth ;) ) so I really don't know what effect AA\AF have at high resolutions, but even if you are right, why should you care?

Just lighten up, don't be such a douche, and enjoy your obviously superior knowlege in private.
 
these people are idiots, they should give me their video cards
 
why would you want our high end video cards, you just stated all you need is a radeon 9600
 
Asmodeus666 said:
these people are idiots, they should give me their video cards
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If you want to help people with knowlege about video cards, by all means do so, but flaming isn't the way to do it.
 
I'm going to try to run it at 1280x1024, or 1280x960 with everything maxed; I don't mess around with AA or AF but I might experiment with those. I know I can run with about 80fps at 1280x1024, but I usually take a framerate hit when I get around open areas. So if need be I'll scale back to 1024x768, even though I don't want to. 9800 Pro 128MB, BTW, in case anyone was wondering.

Asmodeus lay off the f*cking hater-aid dude. Why're you getting your panties in a bunch because people who went out and paid $500 for their video cards aren't "using them correctly." Is that any of your business? You know what I think, and maybe I am wrong, but it sounds to me like you can't afford to get a high-end card so when you see people "abusing" them and not using them how you want them to be used, you get all pissy. Just because you know what all the AA and AF settings do and all that technical jargon doesn't give you the right to act like a high-and-mighty asshole, oh King of Hardware Nerds. It's all sour grapes because you want a card but you can't have one, and that makes you angry because people who DO have them aren't using them how you would. Well, guess what? IT'S THEIR MONEY, THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT WITH THEIR CARDS. You shouldn't even care what their image quality looks like; you're not going to play it over their house. Hell I'd be surprised if anyone let you over their house with your attitude.

And just a sidenote: Azzman, people are not their postcount. Asmodeus is an idiot because he is an idiot, not because he has only two posts on a forum. It's the quality of the post, not the number accrued. You could still be a total dipshit with 10,567 posts.
 
i implied a 9600 would be good enough for you since you are not able to notice the benefits of high graphics settings...
you sound like a genuine imbecile, maybe you have a cognitive impairment...
do you always misunderstand everything you read??
 
and to darkside55 i am no hardware nerd, i know very little about these things... but i happen to own a 9800 pro so i did my research on what it does... i know its not my business what people do with their cards, but theres a bare minimum people should know... and i hate stupid people
 
after reading some of the posts in this forum i've noticed this place gathers the most notorious bunch of stupid pieces of sh*it i have seen in a while... serum157 you're in luck... even though you're a complete idiot you're one of the smarter ones in here
 
800 x 600. This is the only resolution my GFX5200 can handle considerably well, with Textures and Models to high, AF x4, AA x2, and shader.
 
Then take comfort in the fact that you'll be utiilzing your 9800 Pro to the best of it's ability, and leave the "stupid people" to their own devices. To be honest with you I don't find it stupid that people don't know all that much about AA or AF, and I would not call that bare minimum knowledge at all, but for the sake of not having anymore e-drama I'm not going to argue the point with you. :)
 
and i hate annoying forum flamers. go clean that sand out of your vagina and keep your thoughts to yourself k thx

oh and thanks for the compliment. im dumb, but im smart. now thats a nice contrast!
 
How can you people play with no AF!? :rolling: You might get away with that in doom3 because its textures are blurry to begin with, but in hl2 trilinear just makes the game look like crap :(. I'd rather play at 1024x768 with 8xAF than at 1600x1200 with no AF. AA I rarely bother with (watch someone tell me 'omg how can you people play with jaggies???' :p ).
 
Y'know I'm going to really expose my noob side here but...what does anisotropic filtering even do?
 
there is no contrast, you are decidedly a dumb piece of sh*it... but smarter than the other dumb pieces of sh*it in here as far as i can tell
 
ahah thanks for sharing. oh... ah, i think i hear your grade 2 teacher calling you over
 
If you hate everyone so much...why are you still around? Haven't you heard the old adage, "Arguing on the internet is just like the special olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded." (No offense to the mentally handicapped or relatives of such people; just repeating a phrase, not trying to be insensitive). All you're doing now is trolling because you have nothing better to do. And don't lie and say that you do, because if you didn't then you wouldn't keep refreshing this page for replies every five minutes. And before you come back with some smartass remark, no, I have nothing better to do either.

Jesus Christ, forum drama...the internet is serious business. :LOL:
 
AA does blend the colors near jagged edges. Whether you consider it to 'blur' or not is subjective. ATI uses adaptive filtering so it does not apply it to everything, which is good. A flat wall does not need AA.

I agree that AA blurs the image but it also makes it look more visually appealing. I am not huge fan of AA. I must run a game with at least 4x AF though.
No AF? /me shudders
 
1440 x 900, laptop baby!

There are essentially no reviews out there on how the Go5700 will run Half-Life 2 (or CS:S) at, so I'm hoping it'll hold up in DirectX 9, not max settings, but decent enough.
 
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