Ok, I can't be the only one out there who wishes Half-Life 2 was released when they SAID it was going to be. It's hard to believe but HL2 is starting to look like another Team Fortress 2 or Duke Nukem Forever. Not to jinx it or anything.
Tom's Hardware put up a great article a couple months ago with the tech-demo, comparing several video cards from nVidia and ATI. It was really great to see how real computers would handle the new source engine, but I was kind of shocked to see a 3.2Ghz computer brought to its knees in 1024x768. I don't exactly know how to go about doing this but I think that a petition needs to be started to get Valve to release its techdemo to the public. Y'know, let people know if their system is going to be able to handle the game alright, or whether they need to upgrade. It's great that Tom's got their hands on the benchmarking software, but it would be even better if end-users could test their systems before rushing out to buy the newest line of video cards or processors and making unecessary purchases.
I can understant if Valve or Vivendi or Sierra or whoever is running the show now is concerned about people having too much access to the source engine before HL2's release, but with the "great source code caper" in the past, hasn't the damage been done? What more could go wrong if gamers just get a taste of how their system will perform with the source engine?
Tom's Hardware put up a great article a couple months ago with the tech-demo, comparing several video cards from nVidia and ATI. It was really great to see how real computers would handle the new source engine, but I was kind of shocked to see a 3.2Ghz computer brought to its knees in 1024x768. I don't exactly know how to go about doing this but I think that a petition needs to be started to get Valve to release its techdemo to the public. Y'know, let people know if their system is going to be able to handle the game alright, or whether they need to upgrade. It's great that Tom's got their hands on the benchmarking software, but it would be even better if end-users could test their systems before rushing out to buy the newest line of video cards or processors and making unecessary purchases.
I can understant if Valve or Vivendi or Sierra or whoever is running the show now is concerned about people having too much access to the source engine before HL2's release, but with the "great source code caper" in the past, hasn't the damage been done? What more could go wrong if gamers just get a taste of how their system will perform with the source engine?
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