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Newest Half-Life 2 Movies Impress
Thanks to several readers for pointing to the release of a second trailer ('The Docks') from Half-Life 2, via Valve's Steam content delivery system, as well as via GamersHell, IGN, 3D Gamers, and the obligatory BitTorrent link, courtesy GameTab. This follows the first movie, named 'G-Man,' that was posted a couple of days back -- all of these new Bink-encoded executable movies are direct-feed parts of the large shakycam E3 movie we mentioned a few weeks back.
actually, i was talking to the game programmers at e3, and watching the game run on a system similar to your's. pretty much what he said was that the textures etc that they had were ridiculusly high res, and that the whole game was desigened to scale down graphicly to whatever you have, it just won't be as pretty on a GF 1 as on a new high end pc. and seeing it RUN on a plasma monitor, I can tell you, it's worth the upgrade!
-and occasionaly a giant moose.
This is the exact same footage of one 30 second segment from the E3 demo.
And a stupid, boring segment of the demo at that. There were so many other parts that were much more interesting.
Gordon controlling alien spiders against soldiers for one.
The Godzilla-like battle between human resistance and alien behemoths.
Why anyone would waste time watching a crowbar swing a few times is beyond me. And even if someone would, the physics of crowbar impact don't even look right.
What a waste of time.
Valve, E3 was great. Now please continue to surprise me.
Valve have stated them many times, just do a search for it. I did and the first site I found was an interview with Gabe Newell (Managing Director for Half-Life 2) where he states the min specs are a P3 800 and a DX6 (e.g. TNT) graphics card. I've seen 733 mentioned elsewhere but the difference isn't exactly a huge one.
The Source engine's been feature complete since Q4 last year so they should have a pretty good idea of its performance by now.
In the most recent issue of the magazine MaximumPC, they go in depth to show you exactly what to expect based on what video card you have. I don't have it with me right now, but its worth looking at.
Hey, and this .exe file works with WINE, too! No problems. Stock Mandrake 9.1 with nvidia card. Cool!
Too bad my computer is such a dog. :(
It's an excerpt from the E3 half-hour trailer. Higher resolution admittedly, but nothing to get excited about, and nothing you should rush a 50 meg download for. Let's see some new stuff! P.
Yes, but they're much lower quality -- they were grabbed via a steadycam, while these are direct screen captures. People who have watched them frame-by-frame (not me, I'm not insane) have noticed some irregularities like things breaking before they're hit -- apparantly caused by the hyper compression done on the steadycam shots and multiple re-encodings.
The downside to the Bink movies is that you don't get the commentary given at E3. This is pretty valuable (and humorous) stuff at points, since it's exposition for what's being shown.
If you have bandwidth to burn, get both... the video quality of the Bink videos puts the DivX to shame.
In one of the interviews they said they would be releasing the tools early to the CS team so that it would be available as soon as possible, possibly before xmas