Post Your HL2: Lost Coast Performance

[gac009]

Full hdr, max everything at 20-21 fps.
Full hdr, 2AA2AF, recomended settings for everything else at 20-25 fps.

I wonder how much better my old 6800gt would have run it, though I often wonder that while I game.

 

[sandorski]

Didn't run your demo, but my 9800 Pro went from FPS to SPF in places! That was with HDR turned Off.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: gac009
Full hdr, max everything at 20-21 fps.
Full hdr, 2AA2AF, recomended settings for everything else at 20-25 fps.

I wonder how much better my old 6800gt would have run it, though I often wonder that while I game.

What res were you using and did you use any AA/AF for the first run?

 

[niggles]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Didn't run your demo, but my 9800 Pro went from FPS to SPF in places! That was with HDR turned Off.

... so my question on ATI handling HDR remains. It really looks to me that ATI cards don't do well with HDR. Is this right, or is it simply older cards that have the issue.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: niggles

Originally posted by: sandorski
Didn't run your demo, but my 9800 Pro went from FPS to SPF in places! That was with HDR turned Off.

... so my question on ATI handling HDR remains. It really looks to me that ATI cards don't do well with HDR. Is this right, or is it simply older cards that have the issue.

It is a 9800 Pro and I turned HDR Off.

 

[jdurg]

This is with my new eVGA GeForce 6800 with 6 vertex shaders, 12 pipelines, core at 375MHz, and memory running at 790 MHz effectively (395 DDR). The rest of my specs are in my signature.

Coming from my Ti-4600, my new videocard is AMAZING and Half-Life 2 looks downright stunning. Lost Coast looks even better and the HDR is definitely noticeable. Christ, the original game looks much better now with a better video card. Anyway, I ran the demo at my gaming settings which are 1024x768, 2x AA, 4x AF, Reflect All, All Settings On High, HDR on all, Vsync off.

Church Demo:
27.52 fps, 4.234 variance.

Beach Demo:
24.50 fps, 2.514 variance.

While the fps isn't insanely high, it was very consistant so watching the demos and playing the game was VERY smooth. Did I mention that I like my upgraded video card?

 

[mrkun]

I wanted to do a driver comparison with this as well. Here's my results at 1600x1200, max detail, reflect all, full HDR:

81.85 WHQL 79.11

Church: 28.62 29.04
Beach: 34.64 35.81

IQ seems to be slightly improved as well with the 79.11 Drivers. Here's the thread about them.

 

[ramuman]

With a single 7800GTX KO, Venice 3200+ and 2GB of RAM at 2-3-2 on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (all at stock speeds). 81.85 drivers. All options maxed except those specified and at 1680x1050. HDR is full, not bloom:

Church:
2AA/2AF HDR: 37.7
4AA/8AF HDR: 33.5
4AA/8AF HDR OFF: 44.2

Beach:
2AA/2AF HDR: 48.1
4AA/8AF HDR: 38.8
4AA/8AF HDR OFF: 58.9

It's not even worth it playing with HDR off regardless of the frames though .

 

[mrkun]

As a number of people have mentioned, it's surprising how GPU-limited LC is compared to HL2.