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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53587

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:

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jeremyofmany · Contributor Joined: 22 Apr 2010 Posts: 33

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 · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:40 pm Post subject:

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 · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

What EP3?

psolord · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject:

They ARE developing Episode 3, aren't they? At least I would hope!

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

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.