Original Half Life

[hassi94]

I wanted to play Half Life 2 for the first time ever (I know please don't hurt me) and I thought I may aswell play Half Life 1 first.

I just wanted to know, is there anyway to customise graphical settings because all I see is the option of which renderer you use, the resolution and the gamma/brightness. Is there anything else I can access some other way?

Also, is there any way to get a Direct3D 9 or 10 renderer to work on Half Life like on Deus Ex? Are there any texture upgrades or graphics mods?


Thanks for the help guys, as you can see I'm new to Half Life

 

[Barnz]

yes, you can access other visual options from the console, or configuration files located in half-life's folder. half-life does not have support for direct3d 9, or 10.

 

[Naph]

iirc OpenGL is the better choice for HL1 now-a-days.

 

[Barnz]

no, unless you have ATI.

 

[hassi94]

Thanks Barnz and Naph, right and do you have a link to a guide to the Half Life Console commands? I'm a general PC gaming noob as well as a Half Life noob...


I have an XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 by the way, so is OpenGL better for me?

 

[Barnz]

sorry for the error. ATI sucks at handling OpenGL, so you better stick to Direct3D.

 

[blackout]

in terms of graphical mods, you wanna chek out black mesa source, it's a total conversion of HL1 into the source engine. sadly it's not out yet.

http://www.blackmesasource.com/

 

[Barnz]

you got to stop linking that mod everywhere, or I'll hit you.

 

[Naph]

sorry for the error. ATI sucks at handling OpenGL, so you better stick to Direct3D.

I have Nvidia, and OpenGL is the only setting that allows for 24bit depth.

 

[hassi94]

So can noone tell me in some detail how to change graphical settings (like texture detail and antialiasing etc.)?

 

[2Fast4U]

I'm sure these ar on high by default..

 

[Colonel Kernel]

HL1's engine does not support AA, Bloom etc. like Source does, but I guess you could find a modified engine - like a community-made update on ModDB.
There was this one mod I played once, don't remember the name though - it used a modified Gold Source engine and I think it was Russian. That's all I can remember.

 

[Barnz]

there's detail texture support, but it's not used. you can, however download any custom detail textures you want. you can also force half-life to show anti-aliasing from your graphic card settings.