Half-Life 2 & Portal Patch Improves ATI AA

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Gameguru Mania News - Jun,03 2010 -

Half-Life 2 & Portal Patch Improves ATI AA - briefly
(hx) 10:01 PM CEST - Jun,03 2010 - Post a comment / read (5)
A new patch (thanks VE3D) for Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal improves performance when using anti-aliasing with ATI video cards, and also fixes a few other problems. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Half-Life 2
* Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French
* Fixed Lambda logo at end of credits being cut off (Mac)
* Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
* Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Half Life 2: Episode One
* Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
* Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
* Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
* Improved frame rate on opening map
* Fixed localized content not loading properly resulting in English audio
* Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
* Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

Portal
* Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac)
* Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU's

last 10 comments:

jeremyofmany	(10:37 PM CEST - Jun,03 2010 )
Even without this patch, anyone on a modern-day system can obviously get over 100 fps in any HL2+ game. I got 80fps on my old 6800GS. Still, nice to see dev's patching games many years later.

psolord	(11:40 PM CEST - Jun,03 2010 )
Correct! It was running at 200fps average on my OCed rig at 1920X1080+4XAA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoBAh1qomHE It run awesome on my GTX 260 as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tQo5a7lOM These video were made for testing purposes obviously. Still, I believe that this performance enhancement, came while developing Episode 3 and Portal 2. I guess they discovered something.

Tom	(06:04 AM CEST - Jun,04 2010 )
What EP3?

psolord	(06:40 PM CEST - Jun,04 2010 )
They ARE developing Episode 3, aren't they? At least I would hope!

Tom	(07:41 PM CEST - Jun,04 2010 )
Like I said, I have heard nothing and I have been privvy to a lot of things related to Valve development. Secrets only stay secrets for so long. The fact nothing has been leaked at all I'd say no EP3 or HL3, not for a while.

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