Half-Life
2 Episode 1 is the first in a series of games
that chronicle events after the end of Half-Life
2. The game engine is Valves “Source”
however unlike the original Half-Life 2, Valve
have added HDR lighting which works well with
the existing engine to produce some great visuals.
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Half-Life
2 allows us to see the difference that a 100mhz
core increase and an additional 256mb of memory
makes when compared to a stock 79GT. The difference
in the maximum FPS at 1600x1600 with 4aa and 16AF
is 7fps, this rises to 10fps when we disable 4xAA.
Comparing
the Palit 7900GT Sonic 512Mb to the X1900GT 256mb
also shows a good performance advantage in favour
of the Nvidia based card. In fact the Palit card
takes the 7900GT from being at a disadvantage
to being the top mainstream card for Half-Life
2.
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