forcing Ultra High-Res Textures

[devvingiorgio]

Hopefully someone can answer this.
A while back I read that Valve was going to release Ultra high res textures for Half Life 2 that would be utilized by 256 meg video cards.
My question was, has it been confirmed if people with 128 meg cards can force the high res textures on, at a price for performance ?

Doom III 'requires' 512 cards for ultra mode, yet people are fine running it with 256, even 128 meg cards.

thanks guys

P.S. -I'm just looking for a yes or no answer, no need to make this thread huge

 

[Sprafa]

Most probably it is possible.

 

[Surfer2374]

Most probably it is possible.

I agree I would imagine it would work.

 

[slider3005]

i have a 128mb 9800 all in wonder and i was running doom at 1024 by 768 on ultra high and getting a decent framerate. So I'll bet if they say its for 256mb that doesnt mean its only for 256mb cards.

 

[devvingiorgio]

thanks guys appreciate it

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[Cypher19]

HL2's textures would have to be extremely hi-res to be able to fill up a 256mb video card. The only reason Doom3 manages to do it for a 512mb card is because all the textures are uncompressed and there's something like 5 different textures layers for each surface (Carmack referred to all the textures when bundled together would act like a 15-16 channel surface, compared to, say, a bitmap which is three channel (RGB)). Last I checked, HL2 has nowhere near that many.

 

[|_HeLL_|]

Devvingiorgio where can I read about what Valve said about these ultra high res textures? Mmm, would be great if these textures enables "detail textures" too

 

[Xilema]

Does any of you know the resolution of the standard textures of HL2 ?

 

[brokenjago]

Aren't they 512x512? That's what I remember.

 

[Xilema]

Aren't they 512x512? That's what I remember.

Oh Jeez... like Doom 3.
I hope we will see as soon as is possible this hi-res textures pck...

 

[Ahnteis]

IIRC they were talking about uncompressed light-maps, not textures.

 

[Breydel]

I can play Doom3 in 1024 x 768 in ultra high quality on my comp. That's a P4 2.8 GHz, 1GB DDRRAM, Radeon 9700 Pro. I'm getting average 25-30 FPS which for single player is sufficient for me.

I hope I can use the highest quality textures for HL2 as well.

 

[Chris D]

thanks guys appreciate it

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Roger that!

Closed.