Day of Defeat: Source! Awesome graphics! HDR and all

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Crescent13

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Humm, I can't get HDR to turn on for my X800 Pro.

The only cards that support HDR are the

6600
6600GT (mine)
6800
6800GT
6800Ultra
7800GT
78000GTX

You forgot:

R9500
R9600
R9700
r9800
x300
x550
x600
x700
x800

and

FX5200
FX5600
FX5700
FX5800
FX5900
6200

and more....

 

[eastvillager]

It looks great. I was able to run it at 1920x1200 with all eye candy maxed out. When a grenade goes off nearby, you KNOW a grenade went off nearby, lol.

I didn't display FPS, guess I should have, but it was nice and smooth except for when the server(s) lagged *everybody*.

Played from about 8pm till 3am, guess I was having fun.

 

[compgeek89]

I was running at 1600x1200 all maxed and it looks pretty good but i only got 5min before i had to go

 

Originally posted by: compgeek89
I was running at 1600x1200 all maxed and it looks pretty good but i only got 5min before i had to go

what video card?

 

[compgeek89]

Look at my rig...
7800 GTX

 

[bay]

honeslty, going into the water from the sewers on anzio with AA/AF and HDR is incrediable. The wet rocks + water = incrediable. Also I noticed that my frame rate is also prety low 40-60 w/ full HDR 4AA 8 AF @1280x1024. Im used to over 100 always in cs:s but for some reason in dod 40-60 feel like 100+

 

[coomar]

i get high 40's low 50's mostly walking around in my server with a stock 6800gt, 1280x1024, everything high, 2x/4x

hdr looks a lot better than it does in screenshots

 

[MegaWorks]

WTF are u guys talking about?

I have the X800 Pro and I can select Full HDR in my settings. I even have the star on the full option as recommended setting.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: MegaWorks
WTF are u guys talking about?

I have the X800 Pro and I can select Full HDR in my settings. I even have the star on the full option as recommended setting.

Not only that..it works.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MegaWorks
WTF are u guys talking about?

I have the X800 Pro and I can select Full HDR in my settings. I even have the star on the full option as recommended setting.

Well I can't, it's greyed out for me.

 

[M0RPH]

Well after playing the game I stick by what I said, the graphics are not as good as BF2. Close, but not quite. Maybe it's just my preference. The gameplay feels pretty much the same as the old version, which I never liked much. Too many people all spawning in a small area makes for a really hectic, Quake type of play. Just feels cheesy to me. I wish there was a demo so I could have saved myself 20 bucks.

PS. HDR full mode worked fine here on a vanilla X800.

 

[Polish3d]

It really must be. Again on a thread a few days ago I rated BF2 as the best graphics out at the time, but DOD-S blows them away in every area.... every texture is complete and gorgeous... BF2 does have beautiful larger scenery like in Kubra but DOD-S is at a different level imo.


I do wish there were larger DOD-S levels though kinda like HL2DM

 

[Polish3d]

PS, what monitor are you guys using?


I know that HL2 was like a totally different game when I went from a 1024x7 LCD to my sweet and gorgeous Dell 2005FPW

 

[SNiPeRX]

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dod_anzio0013.jpg

My pics with my below setup... this game blows away COD2...

 

[striker64]

The smoke looks like crap in those screens. have you seen the explosions and smoke in COD2? they are something to be marvelled. The gameplay in COD2 seems better to me as well, it just feels more exciting.

 

[TGS]

Until developers start making use of decent bump mapping and or displacement mapping, FPSes will *never* look like a movie. When you get flush up against a brick wall (or a bridge [in the screenies above]) and the rendering is completely flat it really ruins the effect. Even mediocre bump mapping gives the illusion of depth.

 

[Polish3d]

True TGS, agreed. Textures should become more detailed as you draw closer.

The smoke is actually very well done in DOD s

 

[Polish3d]

I really would like to see the pace of the game slowed a bit though, its fast as hell

 

[OvErHeAtInG]

Arghhhh, I don't get it for free with my HL2 Collector's Edition key. So screw them. I hate steam

Try firing up HL2, it'll download a huge update and then you'll have HDR in HL2. Looks durn good (especially the flashlight, but also the setting sun), not worth the drop in frames IMO - I'd rather run my 4Xaa8Xaf. From all the ranting on the forums, I was under the impression that only nvidia cards could even run HDR at all, and was ready to laugh at the ATI gamers who said "I'm running HDR!" - until, imagine my surprise, I fired up HL2 and it had the option for full HDR!!!!! (it was even the recommended setting). I'm running an X800XT.

 

[Topweasel]

There is a HDR (which is used by Farcry) that is only available with SM3.0 cards. Valve created their own HDR that they devloped to keep from toasting computers and works with all DX9 vid cards.

 

[Kyanzes]

It's all nice and awesome. What I really miss is 'Team Fortress II'

 

[btdvox]

Wait so Can Ati cards run HDR like in the pics of the site? are were those done with sm 3.0? because i saw HDR difference on 2.0b and 3.0 and there was no Friggin difference, HDR is not SM 3.0 the only difference is displacement mapping and it looks liek thres till bump mapping.

I hate how people automatically think HDR is sm 3.0, that was only far cry

 

[compgeek89]

Originally posted by: btdvox
Wait so Can Ati cards run HDR like in the pics of the site? are were those done with sm 3.0? because i saw HDR difference on 2.0b and 3.0 and there was no Friggin difference, HDR is not SM 3.0 the only difference is displacement mapping and it looks liek thres till bump mapping.

I hate how people automatically think HDR is sm 3.0, that was only far cry

There is a much larger performance hit in 2.0b mode

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: btdvox
Wait so Can Ati cards run HDR like in the pics of the site? are were those done with sm 3.0? because i saw HDR difference on 2.0b and 3.0 and there was no Friggin difference, HDR is not SM 3.0 the only difference is displacement mapping and it looks liek thres till bump mapping.

I hate how people automatically think HDR is sm 3.0, that was only far cry

Sorry to word it that way it was develop for use with SM3.0 and will be inlcuded on pretty much all SM3.0 capable cards.

Again the Pictures are niether version of HDR. It is a in house development, prepriatory, implementation of HDR and is compatible with all DX9 cards and allows us to use AA (which is something all of the other ones don't let you do).