NVidia Doesn't Play Nice With Half-Life 2

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 23, 2003 @03:51AM from the gordon-forgot-to-put-contact-lenses-in dept.

Sevn writes "Apparently, there's a hardware anti-aliasing bug in many new graphics cards that's surfaced in relation to Half-Life2. The details are on a forum post at HalfLife2.net. It seems that many ATI cards will be able to work around the problem, but nVidia users may not be able to. Here is a link to the original X-bit Labs story." The X-Bit Labs article explains further, citing issues with "...Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing, a popular feature that dramatically improves image quality in games... This is a problem for any application that packs small textures into larger textures. The small textures will bleed into each other if you have multi-sample FSAA enabled [in DirectX 9.0]."

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Easy fix by neosake · 2003-07-23 03:58 · Score: 5, Funny

...just rename the half-life2 executable to something else

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Re:The next time you pooh-pooh consoles... by MikeXpop · 2003-07-23 04:20 · Score: 4, Funny

All of them. It might be because my NES cartridges won't fit inside the PS2 slot tray. I'm not sure...

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Re:Its bad when your sig is mispelled... by stienman · 2003-07-23 05:33 · Score: 4, Funny

"its captain... not captian... sheesh :P"

Boromir was known for his terrible spelling problem when he had more than 2 arrows through his torso.

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