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    HL2 news for Nvidia FX owners

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by lewdvig, Dec 1, 2004.

  1. lewdvig

    lewdvig Notebook Virtuoso

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    http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=838630&page=1&pp=20

    Valve purposely made HL2 perform badly on the FX cards - but this can be fixed!!!

    I finished it on my M200 Go5200 at med/high settings 8*6 and it looked and ran great!

    laptops: Toshiba Portege M200-86E, Toshiba Portege 4000, Latitude C600, Toshiba 7010CT, Thinkpad A30, Toshiba R100, iBook 800, PowerBook G4 400, iBook 600, Compaq 2811CA, Sony VAIO Z505JS, NEC Versa SXi, Compaq Presario 1685, Thinkpad 1411
     
    lewdvig, Dec 1, 2004
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  2. Eliwood

    Eliwood Notebook Deity

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    I wouldn't jump to such quick conclusions and say that Valve sabotaged Nvidia intentionally. That would make no sense. That implies that they wasted extra time and resources to make their product function worse on their end user's computers. It's more like they were negligent about it and supported ATI.

    Nevertheless, this is no war and any users having frame rate issues should try this out.

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    Eliwood, Dec 1, 2004
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