G-Man Video- How to make it play smoother !

[BWMASTER]

For the people who allready have the file downlaoded I found a way to play the file at a smoother frame rate.

You download the RAD video tools from here:

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

You install them, open the folder and click on radvideo.exe
You point it to the movie file which is located here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamCache\"your email"\half-life 2 movies\media\movies

And then you choose advanced play, change the blitting style to
"Direct draw to primary surface..." click on make exe and compile. Now go back into your movies folder and view the new compiled video.

Guaranteed it will play smoother !

Please comment on this to bump the thread so other people can see it too, Thank you !

 

[Guest]

Yay, it worked, thank you very much bwmaster!!!

 

[BWMASTER]

I know, i opened it the first time and the sound was not even synchronised.

 

[Guest]

i wish they turned aa on, then it would have been a little more...well, better, not that it wasnt already godly

 

[BWMASTER]

when people play the game they wont have aa turned on, trust me

 

[BWMASTER]

any other succsess stories ?

 

[worldspawn]

i don't have a half-life 2 media folder :-\

 

[Murray_H]

It works for me doing your method if i play the video, but if i make an exe with the new settings, it flickers and the picture breaks up :/

 

[worldspawn]

nm.

 

[PSX]

does this also work with the regular HL2 25min video? I know someone who has probs running it on a Dell around 1GHz machine, very choppy, and not fun to watch

 

[LoneDeranger]

Originally posted by PSX
does this also work with the regular HL2 25min video? I know someone who has probs running it on a Dell around 1GHz machine, very choppy, and not fun to watch

I have a 1ghz Dell, runs perfectly smooth. Maybe he needs more ran, I got 384 mb.

 

[ValVed RaY]

i will turn AA on
1600 x 1200

 

[csmighty]

you must have a fine computer Ray

 

[PSX]

I have a 1ghz Dell, runs perfectly smooth. Maybe he needs more ran, I got 384 mb.

he has 512MB, so RAM is not the prob

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
when people play the game they wont have aa turned on, trust me

umm..ya i will

 

[LoneDeranger]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
when people play the game they wont have aa turned on, trust me

There will be a utility to optimize your game with HL2. It should turn AA on if you have a high end card. Otherwise you can do it yourself and loose a few FPS.

 

[Mountain Man]

Worked like a charm! Thanks, dude!

 

[jasonh1234]

If you select for the entire file to be preloaded into memoy before playing it will play moohe as well.

 

[Thorinos]

Thanl you so much !!!

 

[Northwood83]

GJ BW, If some people cant be bothered to do all that they can download the Re-Encode from http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2392

 

[Apos]

there is no media/movies in that directory, just a huge gcache. Maybe I'm not done downloading yet?

 

[ValVed RaY]

1600 x 1200 is a minimun i try to run everything at 2048 x 1536

 

[Northwood83]

Originally posted by ValVed RaY
1600 x 1200 is a minimun i try to run everything at 2048 x 1536

Ok, so whats your PC specs already? Also your monitor must have set you back quite a bit unless its under 17 inch.

 

[Zyphria]

Sounds like a 22-24" CRT to me to run at that resolution, or a very high quality 21".

 

[Wesisapie]

probably not, just has to read everything with a microscope.

i'm no big fan of AA or AF.

 

[Scaramanga]

Thanks, that really made it play smoother.
I wonder why they didnt use this encoding option in the beginning?

 

[Guest]

Yes very well done, BW MASTER, the video is pretty much watchable now on my paltry P3 666.

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by ValVed RaY
1600 x 1200 is a minimun i try to run everything at 2048 x 1536

Whoa.........pretty fancy.

Looks like you're all set for Doom 3, i hear that is a hardware leech.

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
For the people who allready have the file downlaoded I found a way to play the file at a smoother frame rate.

You download the RAD video tools from here:

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

You install them, open the folder and click on radvideo.exe
You point it to the movie file which is located here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamCache\"your email"\half-life 2 movies\media\movies

And then you choose advanced play, change the blitting style to
"Direct draw to primary surface..." click on make exe and compile. Now go back into your movies folder and view the new compiled video.

Guaranteed it will play smoother !

Please comment on this to bump the thread so other people can see it too, Thank you !

you can also just click the play button, and then you dont need to recompile it into a second exe

 

[Calm_Blue_Ocean]

I found that just going to the advanced play options and switching it to play as an overlay cleared up all my problems (you might want to set it to save to memory first as well). As an overlay the movies run perfectly smooth on my low end computer (a P3 550 with a 32mb vid card).

 

[Zigrah]

wow It ran so much smoother, the docks video looked so much nicer. I can't wait to see this game in action.

 

[D@rko]

yea, it works fine (at30fps) thx.