Lost Coast - A beast to run?

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HL2 worked absolutely fine for me (my specs 2ghz AMD 64. , 1gb ram, 9600xt). On the same settings (res 1024*something) it jerks around as soon as I look at light effects or water/explosions.
So i turned off HDR which was very nice looking, it played better but still I get really screwed fps and jerky movement in certain places (eg in that church with the gun, and fighting the helo).
Did any1 else find it more of a beast to run than hl2? Even without hdr.
 
It's supposed to be higher quality, thusly it will require alot of power.
 
considering i ran it it was much less of a beast than everyone hyped
there are very few on this forum complaining they weren't able to play it...
 
It played fine for me on both of these machines:

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
2GB Corsair TWINX3200C2PT
ATI Radeon X800 XL PCI-E

Athlon XP 1900+
1GB PC2100 CL2
GeForce 3 Ti 500

I ran my good system at 1280x1024 (LCD) with 2x AA, 16x AF, and maximum in game settings. The slow machine ran at 1280x960 with minimum/medium settings (and no AA/AF, of course). The slower computer felt just as smooth. Therefore, Lost Coast isn't too much of a beast. The high settings do stress high end machines though; I normally run at 4xAA but had to knock it down a notch.
 
2.2 AMD with 6800GT here and 1G of ram, ran very nicely - although the stuttering problem returned.
 
Amd XP 3200+ and a 6600GT with 1GB of ram here. I put settings on max with no AA/AF and it was ultra smooth. I had 1280X1024 resolution.
 
I have very similar spec's to you swiss, although i have a 2.7 ghz P4 instead, same ram and card though. I ran HL2 on the same settings as you, but i also ran Lost Coast on those same settings with full HDR, and 30 fps stable. Its a beast to run but its possible with average systems, mine looked brilliantly nice. Perhaps your CPU is a big bottleneck for you, or maybe you just need to format your pc?
 
I ran mine with HDR and mid settings on 1280* settings with a steady 15-20fps...i dont mind playing it that low for the effects...it seems just as smooth as it going 40fps...although there is more little lag here and there, but it still runs beautifully.
 
A64 3200+, 1gb, 6800gt and it ran fine for me- im not an fps fiend but it never jerked or slowed down significantly enough for me to notice- always very playable.
 
Shens said:
Lost Coast is actually quite playable on a Intel Onboard Graphics chip.
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Obviously doesn't look that great.
 
It ran ok, not great but ok on my 9800pro at 1024x768 with no AA/AF but once I had upgraded to my 7800GT, the difference became clear. 1280x1024 4xAA 8xAF all settings on high, HDR on full, v-sync on and it ran at pretty much 60fps with the odd drop down to 30 now and again and it looked incredible. I'm now a huge fan of HDR!!
 
I found that it ran about as well as HL2, and it looked pretty damn nice too. I really need to get more RAM though if I want to turn the AA and AF right up, but considdering I didn't expect it to run at all, I was pleasantly suprised.

UPDATE: OK so I looked at some of the other pictures and got a little jealous, so I turned everything up to mak except the aa (only 2X) and left with no AF... jerks about a little just before bad guys burst onto the scene but otherwise it's all heavenly beauty... only wish it lasted longer. not complaining, it was a bonus after all, but I'm all set for half Life 2: HDR
 
swiss said:
HL2 worked absolutely fine for me (my specs 2ghz AMD 64. , 1gb ram, 9600xt). On the same settings (res 1024*something) it jerks around as soon as I look at light effects or water/explosions.
So i turned off HDR which was very nice looking, it played better but still I get really screwed fps and jerky movement in certain places (eg in that church with the gun, and fighting the helo).
Did any1 else find it more of a beast to run than hl2? Even without hdr.
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Ur GFX card is letting u down, consider an upgrade
 
Ever stop to consider the ramifications of the Valve/ATI partnership? Lost Coast is designed to melt your graphics card after prolonged play, which means you'll have to go out and buy a new one which means more money for ATI.

It doesn't matter if you buy an Nvidia card instead either, because both Nvidia and ATI are owned by the same people, like in Deus Ex 2.
 
Ye the collaboration thing sounds suspicious. Valve make ridiculously high graphics games, which means if any1 wants to play them properly, a high end Ati card is required.
 
Didn't run any worse than that area with the crane where you are driving the buggy. Considering it was a huge area, HDR makes a very small performance hit.
 
lister said:
Ur GFX card is letting u down, consider an upgrade
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Wrong, I am playing with the same specs as swiss,

(my specs 2ghz AMD 64. , 1gb ram, 9600xt). On the same settings (res 1024*something)
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except with an Athlon 3200+, and at 800x600. Lost Coast plays very smooth, no jerkiness anywhere.

I think a high end CPU seems to make a hell of a difference. I was playing HL2 & HL2DM previously, on the same system @800x600, but with a Radeon 7500 :eek:
 
The source engine is probably the LEAST stable engine I've ever had the misfortune to play a game on. It's absolutely horrible, even when considering the quality of graphics. I'm saying this because Lost Coast froze mid-way through EXACTLY the same way HL2 does. Repeatedly.
 
all i can is WOW, the game is absolutly amazing. i never knew games could look this good. Im running a 2.8ghz with HT, 9800pro 128mg, and a 1gig of ram

PEACE

Mike:E
 
ohh and watermelon what kind of a system are u running?

PEACE

mike:cheers:
 
The source engine is probably the LEAST stable engine I've ever had the misfortune to play a game on. It's absolutely horrible, even when considering the quality of graphics. I'm saying this because Lost Coast froze mid-way through EXACTLY the same way HL2 does. Repeatedly.
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I have to disagree with this personally, as I have seen HL2 run on 6 different machines, none of them brilliant, and it has run well throughout. It seems crashes and the like are quite rare, relative to how many people are running the game.
 
I dont understand this. On 'dxdiag' it says my cpu is an AMD athlon 64. 3000+.
But I know that it is a 2ghz processor.
Is an AMD64. 3000+ a fast processor?
Can som1 tell me, because a lot of these replies are "well im running a AMD 3200, and it runs fine for me" but I have a 3000, that cant be that bad!
 
swiss said:
I dont understand this. On 'dxdiag' it says my cpu is an AMD athlon 64. 3000+.
But I know that it is a 2ghz processor.
Is an AMD64. 3000+ a fast processor?
Can som1 tell me, because a lot of these replies are "well im running a AMD 3200, and it runs fine for me" but I have a 3000, that cant be that bad!
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No a 3000 isn't that bad. I got a 3500+ at 2.2 ghz and Lost Coast runs very smooth for me.
 
I see thanks. I ran lost coast again...I turned down shadow quality to low, texture to medium, models to medium, water to low, and then I put on HDR full.
It now works better; I get the beauty of HDR, and graphics are still pretty dam good.
 
Ok, guys. Will it work on my computer? lol
I probley know the answer anyway. "No" :p
 
I run it on the highest quality and it lags a bit. Sometimes it will just freeze up lol.
 
swiss said:
HL2 worked absolutely fine for me (my specs 2ghz AMD 64. , 1gb ram, 9600xt). On the same settings (res 1024*something) it jerks around as soon as I look at light effects or water/explosions.
So i turned off HDR which was very nice looking, it played better but still I get really screwed fps and jerky movement in certain places (eg in that church with the gun, and fighting the helo).
Did any1 else find it more of a beast to run than hl2? Even without hdr.
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My system will not run HDR, but it runs slow STILL. HL2 ran ok, but Lost coast ran bad for the most part. lol
 
My computer does well :)

I thought HDR would hinder my performance MUCH worse than it actually did, however, I think the performance drop is highly overrated. I have an AMD XP 2800+, 6600 GT OC'd to 550mhz/1.1GHZ, 1 GIG 2700 RAM and here are some screenshots @ 1024*768 with all options high, and HDR at full ( or whatever the highest option is ):

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/5158/d2lostcoast00008so.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/876/d2lostcoast00014ce.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8921/d2lostcoast00020eg.jpg

Looks amazingly beautiful - I think I'll start playing DOD:S now :p
 
I run lost coast on medium textures and models, and high everything else. no AA/AF (yes, and HDR). 1024x768.

I get a nice framerate on lost coast. Not a solid 60, but most of the time it is. Looks very nice, also. This is on 512 megs of ram, geforce 6800, and an amd 2500+. I expect it to run alot better with some more ram, also.

I expected it to run alot worse. But I noticed that looking directly below me kills my framerate.
 
john3571000 said:
considering i ran it it was much less of a beast than everyone hyped
there are very few on this forum complaining they weren't able to play it...
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I was expecting to have terrible problems with LC. It was a bear to get HL2 to run on my machine without any problems.

Happily, LC ran beautifully on my machine without a single glitch. I hope Aftermath is the same way.
 
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