Best settings for Half Life 2?

I just purchased a legit copy of Half Life 2....Steam, not as bad as people
made it out to be, though installiation was time consuming.

I have a XFX 7800GTX and can easily O/C to 490/1320. I am using the latest
78.01 drivers. There are many options for quality settings....could anyone
give me a rundown as to what the best settings for best visual quality might
be?

Antialiasing settings + Anistropic filtering, application controlled or
manual?...if if leave at default the in game options give me 6x AA and 16x
AF....which would be better?

Any other options i can enable for better image quality?, frame rates are
not an issue as i have an AMD FX-57 @ 3.0Ghz.

Richard Dower wrote:

Any other options i can enable for better image quality?, frame rates
are not an issue as i have an AMD FX-57 @ 3.0Ghz.

Then just max out the settings, max ANI filtering, max AA, max details, max
resolution,force V sync enabled in driver for those games that doesnt have
it pr default.

The visual difference between 4 and 6x anti aliasing is minimal though,and
same with x8/x16 ani. So if it starts to drop in fps, reducing those wont
ruin anything.

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Then just max out the settings, max ANI filtering, max AA, max details,
max resolution,force V sync enabled in driver for those games that doesnt
have it pr default.

Why enabel Vertical Sync?...i thought i you should always disable VSync?



The visual difference between 4 and 6x anti aliasing is minimal though,and
same with x8/x16 ani. So if it starts to drop in fps, reducing those wont
ruin anything.

How about 6x AA versus 8xS AA?

Wow ! Thats one hell of a rig you have there buddy !

Once you complete your *huge* 800MB odd download, and get HL2 running,
it will detect the settings on its own.

Here are some though :

1024x768 - 6x AA, 16x AF
1280 x 1024 - 4xAA, 16xAF (nVidia's AF :P)

You can experiment and get the same, difficult for me to tell you,
hopefully anything should work on that kinda rig


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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:38:00 +0100, "Richard Dower"
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Why enabel Vertical Sync?...i thought i you should always disable VSync?

You disable it for benchmarks, for actual use it is better to enable
it to avoid image tearing.
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Try to stay above 75fps in all circumstances,i found maxing all out
sometimes dropped the fps to 50 and this played less smooth.
It did not matter i had my xp3800 @ 2.7Ghz,also setting my core/mem @
570/600 did not make much difference.
I use AA 4x because the rest is overkill and only blurs my screen image,this
is ofcourse a personal experience,which depends on the type of monitor u
use.
Playing at a refresh rate of 100hz already smoothens out alot so no AF for
me.
Ofcourse your card is faster then my x850pro,hence the advice to maintain
plus 75fps.


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bericht ...

Wow ! Thats one hell of a rig you have there buddy !

Once you complete your *huge* 800MB odd download, and get HL2 running,
it will detect the settings on its own.

Here are some though :

1024x768 - 6x AA, 16x AF
1280 x 1024 - 4xAA, 16xAF (nVidia's AF :P)

You can experiment and get the same, difficult for me to tell you,
hopefully anything should work on that kinda rig


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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:38:00 +0100, "Richard Dower"
wrote:

Why enabel Vertical Sync?...i thought i you should always disable VSync?

You disable it for benchmarks, for actual use it is better to enable
it to avoid image tearing.

I have an XFX7800GT, and honestly I can't see a difference between VSync
being on or off. But maybe I'm not looking for the right thing - in which
case, well I can't simply noticed the difference so it seems pointless to
have it on. Especially considering VSync drastically reduces FPS in some
areas of every game I've tried it on.

Saying that, I usually max everything else out and run at 1600x1200 in all
games. With HL2 I had:
1600x1200
Max AA (maybe one less than max, actually, can't quite remember)
Max AF.
Max everything else.
No VSync.

It ran as smooth as a hot knife through butter.

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"Sune Storgaard" wrote in message
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Then just max out the settings, max ANI filtering, max AA, max details,
max resolution,force V sync enabled in driver for those games that doesnt
have it pr default.

Why enabel Vertical Sync?...i thought i you should always disable VSync?

Yeah go ahead and watch that lovely tearing effect as you move fast.


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"Andrew" spamtrap@localhost. wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:38:00 +0100, "Richard Dower"
wrote:

Why enabel Vertical Sync?...i thought i you should always disable VSync?

You disable it for benchmarks, for actual use it is better to enable
it to avoid image tearing.

I have an XFX7800GT, and honestly I can't see a difference between VSync
being on or off. But maybe I'm not looking for the right thing - in which
case, well I can't simply noticed the difference so it seems pointless to
have it on. Especially considering VSync drastically reduces FPS in some
areas of every game I've tried it on.

Saying that, I usually max everything else out and run at 1600x1200 in all
games. With HL2 I had:
1600x1200
Max AA (maybe one less than max, actually, can't quite remember)
Max AF.
Max everything else.
No VSync.

It ran as smooth as a hot knife through butter.

VSync is just a frame limiter that limits the number of fps to the refresh
rate of your display. It's not a quality setting.

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anything 60 fps or higher is great
the eye sees smooth flow at that, below 60 and it gets choppy
"Richard Dower" wrote in message
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I just purchased a legit copy of Half Life 2....Steam, not as bad as people
made it out to be, though installiation was time consuming.

I have a XFX 7800GTX and can easily O/C to 490/1320. I am using the latest
78.01 drivers. There are many options for quality settings....could anyone
give me a rundown as to what the best settings for best visual quality
might be?

Antialiasing settings + Anistropic filtering, application controlled or
manual?...if if leave at default the in game options give me 6x AA and 16x
AF....which would be better?

Any other options i can enable for better image quality?, frame rates are
not an issue as i have an AMD FX-57 @ 3.0Ghz.