From what I understand, DX6 is so basic that all it does is rasterize triangles. Your game would still have to have what's basically a software renderer, except that the actual rendering of the triangles at the very end of the process (which is what takes the most time) is what's done by the GPU. For a game like HL2 that's impressive.
In the documentary they say they did have a software renderer, and thanks to that they found bugs in the GPU pipeline of the DirectX renderer that were eventually fixed by the vendor(s).
this is exactly how the game looked when i used to play it on my thinkpad 10 years ago. the flashlight bug, the props low draw distance. even the super laggy spots. they are EXACTLY at the same places. this was almost like a nostalgia wave for me watching the video.
Something about Half-Life 2 that impresses me that never really gets mentioned: It could run on relatively low-end hardware when it came out in 2004 (system requirements are noticeably lower than Doom 3), but it still looks decent by modern standards, better than a lot of indie games. They really optimized their graphics, huh?
I don't ever remember a time Half-Life 2 ran badly, maybe looked a bit ass (had some incompatibility) but ran great. Also runs pretty good on the Xbox, which is an achievement in itself, fuck Doom 3 had to be slimmed down to fit on the Xbox.
They used good textures which look photoreaistic even without bump maps -- unlike DOOM3 where all textures look bad without additiinal layers which correspond to bump and other effects
Lmao, memories of trying to play this game on a Sony netbook with an intel atom n470... I remember how in default dx9 mode the game would run at about 5 fps with every npc just A-posing everywhere
@@victfv It's been quite some time since my comment, my friend showed some old bike racing game like 2 years ago and that used DX6, as it was mentioned in the game's launcher. Obviously it's not as advanced as HL2 so it didn't look all that great.
Hah, this is exactly how HL2 looked when I was a little kid and tried to run it on my shitty little computer back in 2004. I actually figured out a fix for the flashlight! If you run r_newflashlight 0, r_shadows 0, and r_dynamic 0 (or r_dynamiclighting 0? idk) it functions "normally," but nearly identically to the Half-Life 1 flashlight! I was so excited when I got it to work, because it was such a pain doing parts of the game where you NEEDED the flashlight! I don't think my computer had a graphics device of any kind, so it ran just like this but at probably 10 FPS max. I still beat the game like that, though!
Just old memories of me fucking around in the console for hours. The "Find" command led me to figuring out some pretty wacky stuff, which was great because back in the day there was very little documentation. I spent hours just fucking around with the game files and doing weird shit
I like this oldschool render without any dynamic lighting. It looks like you are virtually moving into a static picture, like eye travelling at the painting in 3D
I dont think theres a 486 fast enough. Back in the day I ran this on a Celeron 500 with 256mb of ram in DX7 mode and it was a slideshow at about 15fps.
@@drg19841 I'm sure you're right, but that was just a reference to the famous Half-Life 2 tech demo with Eric Wolpaw. th-cam.com/video/4ddJ1OKV63Q/w-d-xo.html
I played HL2 on GeForce 2 32MB (DX7), Celeron 1300. Worked pretty well. It even worked on a Dell laptop with 16MB iGPU and mobile celeron or pentium 3 (can't remember). I got GPU upgrade in 2006 or later - Radeon 9200SE. Had a Pentium 3 1GHz then. Could finally play HL2 with decent FPS on medium settings.
A long time ago before i even had a steam account, i played a pirated copy of HL2, and it lagged in the exact same places as you have shown, and many more. I think it's due to some odd file association issue due to which the game has an issue loading certain props into memory. It's just a hunch, i'm in no way an expert so feel free to correct me.
"Earlier Valve has claimed that Half-Life 2 would be playable on really minimalistic system specs (700mhz cpu, TNT2 gfx card), but apparently those were aimed a bit low, although the revised minimum specs are still on the low end of the gaming spectrum." -IGN article from 2004. Yeah, technically original engine supported DX 6.
Edwardo Franco Having played the original Xbox version, I can assure you that although this is close to what most of the Textures look like, the game itself usually runs fine. The flashlight mostly works as intended and most of the game is quite intact aside from one or two areas changed slightly for performance. Obviously the pc version is superior in every way if you're playing on a decent pc, but this in the video is actually worse than the Xbox version. still a great informative video though!
the colored shadows are an artifact from rendering the textures (or the whole game) at a lower palette than the original, i think the limited color space is 16bit (65.5k colors) instead of 24bit (16.8mil colors), it affects all textures but it's most obvious on dark textures, they always have a greenish or purplish shade instead of the proper grey.
3:57 Same problem here. Every time a train is about to come the game slows down like this for some reason. Propably its loadong the train model from the files but that should be a CPU task since the GPU renders the graphics only.
@@uncleho1945 Meanwhile with 32mb of RAM PS2 was handling at stable FPS Jak And Daxter, Gran Turismo 4, Transformers, MGS2 and 3, God Of War 2, Enter The Matrix, Ratchet And Clank, Burnout 3, Zone Of The Enders, Silent Hill 3, The Getaway, Black, Crash Nitro Kart, NFS Carbon, Clock Tower 3, etc. The RAM may be lower on PS2, but it was way faster. Its also irrelevant with what i said. A PC from 1998 is much weaker than the PS2.
@@uncleho1945 Micro Design said that PS2 is like 16 times more powerful than a Pentium 3. Watch MVG and you would realize why. Xbox may had an advantage for PC ports, true, but thats mostly brute force, not a better optimization job. Also, a game like HL2 would probably had liked having the vector units for the physics.
@@mopeybloke The levels themselves have less polygons than even early PS2 games, and the level geometry is fixed compared to Black. HL2 shined more in the amount of varied textures per area and of course the physics, but i already gave the proofs as to why i think it wouldnt be impossible to port, just difficult.
@@theobserver4214 Yes you are right. I think when I wrote the comment I was thinking of the DX's generations, like 6-7-8 so on. As it is now, it's DX9EX. :)
Pretty cool :D Source was and yet is an amazing engine, i think none other engine in the world is flexible as Source do...it gives the best on DX9.0+ card of course, but is also playable in very ultra old configuration, just today I installed it on my retro pc and man it runs very well even on Windows 98 SE! With just an AMD Sempron 2400\2ghz, 512MB DDR1 and a Radeon 9200 128mb it runs and pretty playable with solid 25\40\60fps on medium\high and 1024x768, with maximum reachable for that card, DX8.1...this because Source (like Doom 3's id Tech 4) is root based on a 2002 engine (the game was mentioned to be released on mid 2003, but get postponed on late 2004\early 2005 for the beta leak) so this increase the amazing power of this engine (if I don't get wrong, Source Engine takes some features from Disney Pixar's movies engine, or viceversa don't remember, but still amazing!)
Correct AVINIDE, GoldSrc (that comes from GoldSource) was the HL1 engine, that comes from Id Quake Engine heavily modified, yet the Source Engine still got, by John Carmack words himself, some code part from the first GoldSrc, and all the effects like we know today for example the water reflections or havok physics was already born in 2002 (first Pixel Shaders effects started to exists from that year) so is not so a big deal or surprise that HL2 can run even on DirectX 6.0 (a version of coast_dx60 could be found even in beta leaked build) or in very weak configurations..
The 2004 build of Half-Life 2 is quite similar to the build they were using during testing(Or I'd rather call it, the Leak build). After doing a lot of patching and fixing to my leak build, the physics and strange lighting effects seem to be on par to the ones in this video. Thanks for making this video, it shows a lot to the 'trained eye', so to speak. (Note: Next time I go to test a map, I'll look into which version of DirectX my Leak build is running. Though, iirc, it's running a modified GoldSrc engine. Looking to change that because OpenGL isn't a favorite of mine.)
All of that looks hacked around to run on DX6, it's pretty insane they got this kind of support at all in there. Definitely amounts to having another renderer on the side.
I was being sarcastic, I've always found the PS2 to be a shit system with third world specs. (just look at how games like Resident Evil 4 or Max Payne 2 look on a PS2)
@@pessimisticnihilist7338 Well, you are wrong. RE4 its clear it was rushed and Mikami didnt wanted it on the first place. Max Payne 2 im not sure but something clear as water is that its far from being the best looking game on the system to have downgrades over other versions.
crystallize I know I don't know what you're ona bout with the building being "overbrighted" the sun is casting light directly onto it, it's looking how I would expect it to.
Micah John Yes, it looks how it should look, except those balconyes that are too dark. And I personally don't like when lighting is so bright it's destroying texture details.
This still looked amazing for the time. I prefer the old DX8 look of the game cause that's how I remember it when I first played it back in the day. On DX9 post Steam-pipe update, game looks too shiny.
Me too. Plus they changed the engine in like 2009 to the Orange box one, and its just all wrong now. hl2 is supposed to not have reflections on water for the OG 2004 experience
GrabesstilleV2 TV I ran the original DVD's hl2 folder as a sourcemod. Took about an hour or so of tweaking but it works for the most part, the game crashes when trying to save and NPCs get stuck at points with elevators (1st meeting with Alyx, Mossman during Black Mesa East, etc.) but that's the only problems I've seen when playing with it. Might go back and try to fix the NPC issue, but haven't really cared to, it would be illegal for me to redistribute.
***** The only place I have DX6 running is on HL2 beta. And by the way, there's a DX7 version of the shotgun with missing textures. It's the HL2 Beta's Shotgun.
oh man, thanks. But what about making it run on Source SDK Base 2006? i know for a fact that its not hacked to run on it, (obviously) i tried a lot of times to make steam refer to it as a mod, how did you do it? EDIT : i really want to test every scripted sequence, usually the execution of these is listed in the console.
You can't even run the current Steam version of this game in DX6, lowest there is 8.1, which introduces graphical glitches even worse than seen here. You'd have to download a version of the game running on the old engine (2006 or earlier), which runs faster anyway.
@@stalinguy2256 Half-Life 2 Collectors Edition (2153).iso google it install by running hl2.exe (not setup.exe -- otherwise it will attempt to install Steam)
+Elza Vilka Squares are "nearest" texture mode, lack of filtering. Filtering should be possible on DX6 so textures should look like vaseline, without squares.
From what I understand, DX6 is so basic that all it does is rasterize triangles.
Your game would still have to have what's basically a software renderer, except that the actual rendering of the triangles at the very end of the process (which is what takes the most time) is what's done by the GPU.
For a game like HL2 that's impressive.
In the documentary they say they did have a software renderer, and thanks to that they found bugs in the GPU pipeline of the DirectX renderer that were eventually fixed by the vendor(s).
@@VioletGiraffe Bringing recently-discovered knowledge to old commentary tracks is so awesome. Sort of like a time bridge :D
if DX6 is a basic triangle rasterizer, then what on earth was DX1-DX5 ?
@@SiisKolkytEuroo Same thing, but with even less features.
this is exactly how the game looked when i used to play it on my thinkpad 10 years ago.
the flashlight bug, the props low draw distance.
even the super laggy spots. they are EXACTLY at the same places.
this was almost like a nostalgia wave for me watching the video.
How you gonna do perfect punctuation but forget to capitalize?
Asking the real questions
@KimuTone It's*
@@guava5859 capitalization is only really needed in the absence of punctuation
Half Life 2 if Gordon didn't wear his glasses
Gordon : IM BLIND
Best results on 144p.
youre so old
Something about Half-Life 2 that impresses me that never really gets mentioned: It could run on relatively low-end hardware when it came out in 2004 (system requirements are noticeably lower than Doom 3), but it still looks decent by modern standards, better than a lot of indie games. They really optimized their graphics, huh?
I don't ever remember a time Half-Life 2 ran badly, maybe looked a bit ass (had some incompatibility) but ran great. Also runs pretty good on the Xbox, which is an achievement in itself, fuck Doom 3 had to be slimmed down to fit on the Xbox.
Maddbox11235 DOOM 3 looks like shit compared to Half Life 2
Brullah Snake Doom 3’s innovative graphics was in the lighting.
theres a mod to run DOOM 3 on VooDoo 3 graphics, looks like HL1
They used good textures which look photoreaistic even without bump maps -- unlike DOOM3 where all textures look bad without additiinal layers which correspond to bump and other effects
1:47 Car rendering in GTA San Andreas!
As a person who tried to play HL2 on intel GMA 3150, directx 6 boosted my framerate up to 60
Based
@@MicahJohn21659 forgot to tell, GMA 3150 can run gmod under directx 8
It even somehow runs my 25GB addon collection made for non-steam gmod
Lmao, memories of trying to play this game on a Sony netbook with an intel atom n470... I remember how in default dx9 mode the game would run at about 5 fps with every npc just A-posing everywhere
How do we activate Directx 6
Wow, I've never seen any version ov DirectX older than 7. Surprisingly the game still looks kinda good even on DX 6.
Yeah, thanks to photorealistic textures
The only game I played on DX6 was Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, but it was way older than HL2.
@@victfv It's been quite some time since my comment, my friend showed some old bike racing game like 2 years ago and that used DX6, as it was mentioned in the game's launcher. Obviously it's not as advanced as HL2 so it didn't look all that great.
My intel hd graphics support only dx7 nice to see it could run with it
It looks pretty much the same as dx7 hardware
Hah, this is exactly how HL2 looked when I was a little kid and tried to run it on my shitty little computer back in 2004. I actually figured out a fix for the flashlight! If you run r_newflashlight 0, r_shadows 0, and r_dynamic 0 (or r_dynamiclighting 0? idk) it functions "normally," but nearly identically to the Half-Life 1 flashlight! I was so excited when I got it to work, because it was such a pain doing parts of the game where you NEEDED the flashlight!
I don't think my computer had a graphics device of any kind, so it ran just like this but at probably 10 FPS max. I still beat the game like that, though!
Just old memories of me fucking around in the console for hours. The "Find" command led me to figuring out some pretty wacky stuff, which was great because back in the day there was very little documentation. I spent hours just fucking around with the game files and doing weird shit
@@Dimeinurear Sounds like a blast. I think everyone here has memories of fucking around with the source console on their shitty laptops
I found out about the npc_create command and would just spawn zombies in Portal on my shitty 2006 laptop
It's like watching someone play a version of half life 2 that was made a few weeks before release
It is, actually! The dates on the files on the CDs are from late September/mid October (can't recall which).
Micah John I want the files
@@mooseyexists I know I'm late, but here you go:
th-cam.com/video/D_9hP2BA16Y/w-d-xo.html
@@pieseuek thx
The range of hardware this game can be made to run on it outstanding.
I like this oldschool render without any dynamic lighting. It looks like you are virtually moving into a static picture, like eye travelling at the painting in 3D
That would be still great graphics for its time...
Now this will run on my 486.
I dont think theres a 486 fast enough. Back in the day I ran this on a Celeron 500 with 256mb of ram in DX7 mode and it was a slideshow at about 15fps.
@@drg19841 I'm sure you're right, but that was just a reference to the famous Half-Life 2 tech demo with Eric Wolpaw. th-cam.com/video/4ddJ1OKV63Q/w-d-xo.html
@@cxeroannuki2840 wait erik wolpaw was the presenter?
I played HL2 on GeForce 2 32MB (DX7), Celeron 1300. Worked pretty well. It even worked on a Dell laptop with 16MB iGPU and mobile celeron or pentium 3 (can't remember).
I got GPU upgrade in 2006 or later - Radeon 9200SE. Had a Pentium 3 1GHz then. Could finally play HL2 with decent FPS on medium settings.
Lmao, in 2006 you bought a DirectX 8.1 GPU.
@@raresmacovei8382 you got a thing wrong... Didn't buy it XD. Btw it used PCI bus instead of AGP or PCI-E.
0:24 half life 2 episode 3 confirmed
Thats what the original xbox is runnin' on.
No, The original xbox was originaly named DirectXBox because of the revolutionary directx 7
I'm sure it uses 9 on a low setting.
There are no reflections and lacks many effects in xbox, thats DX 8/7
TyrannoWright Nope, the Xbox Original version runs on DirectX 8.1 with medium settings.
Blank Blank You're two months late.
A long time ago before i even had a steam account, i played a pirated copy of HL2, and it lagged in the exact same places as you have shown, and many more. I think it's due to some odd file association issue due to which the game has an issue loading certain props into memory. It's just a hunch, i'm in no way an expert so feel free to correct me.
Prob not since source models are loaded with the map. More likely a physics issue or sm
Wow, I knew that HL2 supported DX7, but 6?? DAMN lol.
Blitzvogel Mobius XD on that times i thanked GabeN for that.
"Earlier Valve has claimed that Half-Life 2 would be playable on really minimalistic system specs (700mhz cpu, TNT2 gfx card), but apparently those were aimed a bit low, although the revised minimum specs are still on the low end of the gaming spectrum." -IGN article from 2004. Yeah, technically original engine supported DX 6.
I remember playing this and CSS with my Geforce4MX 440 on DirectX 7 (going to Video and Advanced options showed "DX7" , im talking about 2005-06)
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@@haseenabadshah5381 bruh
@@haseenabadshah5381 bruh
i have never played half life 2 on the original xbox, but im guessing this is what how it looks like
Edwardo Franco It looks worse, actually.
Edwardo Franco Having played the original Xbox version, I can assure you that although this is close to what most of the Textures look like, the game itself usually runs fine. The flashlight mostly works as intended and most of the game is quite intact aside from one or two areas changed slightly for performance.
Obviously the pc version is superior in every way if you're playing on a decent pc, but this in the video is actually worse than the Xbox version. still a great informative video though!
Edwardo Franco xbox used dx7
@@mooseyexists It used DirectX 8.1 due to the GeForce 3 (DX 8.0-8.1) based card inside supporting that.
@@theobserver4214 no, but the modified version of source used DX7 due to performance committing suicide
DX6 my G550 should do that...where do I get that version?
the colored shadows are an artifact from rendering the textures (or the whole game) at a lower palette than the original, i think the limited color space is 16bit (65.5k colors) instead of 24bit (16.8mil colors), it affects all textures but it's most obvious on dark textures, they always have a greenish or purplish shade instead of the proper grey.
3:57 Same problem here. Every time a train is about to come the game slows down like this for some reason. Propably its loadong the train model from the files but that should be a CPU task since the GPU renders the graphics only.
XgamerGR Source doesn't load models on the fly, I think it's a low level physics issue.
Half Life 2 Playstation 2 edition.
@@analogfeelingshateswin32 yeah.
And a PS2 version could look even better since it would be better optimized and it wouldnt be running with the constrains of DirectX6
So this is what it would look like on the PS2
No, this is: th-cam.com/video/6tXaa_vWd9I/w-d-xo.html
Not really.
Yes but also no @@PSXDooMERR
Half-Life 2 If released on GoldSrc engine
th-cam.com/video/6tXaa_vWd9I/w-d-xo.html
biblically accurate half life 2
Half-Life 2 on 3DFX Glide? When!
Surprisingly, it doesn't look that bad! O.o
Direct_x 6 appeared in windows 98? This game can run on it?
Actually yeah, because on my box it said that you could use windows 98.
I remember playing some ancient cracked version of the game many years ago and it had the EXACT same FPS drop spots in the start of Route Kanal.
Dreamcast has a DirectX 6, it certainly can run HL2
So it could had run on the PS2. Directx6 was released in 1998.
@@uncleho1945 Meanwhile with 32mb of RAM PS2 was handling at stable FPS Jak And Daxter, Gran Turismo 4, Transformers, MGS2 and 3, God Of War 2, Enter The Matrix, Ratchet And Clank, Burnout 3, Zone Of The Enders, Silent Hill 3, The Getaway, Black, Crash Nitro Kart, NFS Carbon, Clock Tower 3, etc.
The RAM may be lower on PS2, but it was way faster.
Its also irrelevant with what i said. A PC from 1998 is much weaker than the PS2.
@@uncleho1945 Micro Design said that PS2 is like 16 times more powerful than a Pentium 3. Watch MVG and you would realize why. Xbox may had an advantage for PC ports, true, but thats mostly brute force, not a better optimization job.
Also, a game like HL2 would probably had liked having the vector units for the physics.
@@sebastiankulche Level complexity would be a problem, as well as the physics simulation.
@@mopeybloke The levels themselves have less polygons than even early PS2 games, and the level geometry is fixed compared to Black. HL2 shined more in the amount of varied textures per area and of course the physics, but i already gave the proofs as to why i think it wouldnt be impossible to port, just difficult.
Very informative video, thank you!
To fix the flashlight bug, add these lines in autoexec.cfg:
r_newfglashlight "1"
r_newproplighting "1"
Try other Source games on DirectX 6 such as CSGO next?
CS GO runs on DX 9.0c only.
The older DXs are disabled for that game.
@@manupainkiller Nowadays isn’t it using DirectX9Ex exclusively? I don’t think you can even go back to the original DirectX9 anymore
@@theobserver4214 Yes you are right.
I think when I wrote the comment I was thinking of the DX's generations, like 6-7-8 so on.
As it is now, it's DX9EX. :)
@@manupainkiller Yeah, DirectX gets messy after 9. First “9Ex”, then 11.X (Xbox One), the Direct3D 11.1-11.4 API updates, and now “DirectX12 Ultimate”
hmm, it looks like a normal tf2 comp setting. nothing out of the ordinary here
Dreamcast Edition?
Pretty cool :D Source was and yet is an amazing engine, i think none other engine in the world is flexible as Source do...it gives the best on DX9.0+ card of course, but is also playable in very ultra old configuration, just today I installed it on my retro pc and man it runs very well even on Windows 98 SE! With just an AMD Sempron 2400\2ghz, 512MB DDR1 and a Radeon 9200 128mb it runs and pretty playable with solid 25\40\60fps on medium\high and 1024x768, with maximum reachable for that card, DX8.1...this because Source (like Doom 3's id Tech 4) is root based on a 2002 engine (the game was mentioned to be released on mid 2003, but get postponed on late 2004\early 2005 for the beta leak) so this increase the amazing power of this engine (if I don't get wrong, Source Engine takes some features from Disney Pixar's movies engine, or viceversa don't remember, but still amazing!)
It is kind of a rebranded havok engine.
I ran HL2 on Celeron 1300MHz and GeForce 2 32MB. In 2006 I had Pentium 1000 MHz and Radeon 9200SE - ran medium settings very well.
Source engine is based on GoldSource engine, which is a heavily modified Quake II engine. However Source is using Havok's physics engine.
Correct AVINIDE, GoldSrc (that comes from GoldSource) was the HL1 engine, that comes from Id Quake Engine heavily modified, yet the Source Engine still got, by John Carmack words himself, some code part from the first GoldSrc, and all the effects like we know today for example the water reflections or havok physics was already born in 2002 (first Pixel Shaders effects started to exists from that year) so is not so a big deal or surprise that HL2 can run even on DirectX 6.0 (a version of coast_dx60 could be found even in beta leaked build) or in very weak configurations..
FYI I was answering to guy named 'end my suffering'
The 2004 build of Half-Life 2 is quite similar to the build they were using during testing(Or I'd rather call it, the Leak build). After doing a lot of patching and fixing to my leak build, the physics and strange lighting effects seem to be on par to the ones in this video.
Thanks for making this video, it shows a lot to the 'trained eye', so to speak.
(Note: Next time I go to test a map, I'll look into which version of DirectX my Leak build is running. Though, iirc, it's running a modified GoldSrc engine. Looking to change that because OpenGL isn't a favorite of mine.)
ahh yes yes, the old experience of playing on a 256Mb of Ram and 64Mb intel Extreme Graphics :P
All of that looks hacked around to run on DX6, it's pretty insane they got this kind of support at all in there. Definitely amounts to having another renderer on the side.
Also known as Half Life 2 : PS2 Edition.
PS2 could do it even better.
I was being sarcastic, I've always found the PS2 to be a shit system with third world specs. (just look at how games like Resident Evil 4 or Max Payne 2 look on a PS2)
@@pessimisticnihilist7338 Well, you are wrong. RE4 its clear it was rushed and Mikami didnt wanted it on the first place. Max Payne 2 im not sure but something clear as water is that its far from being the best looking game on the system to have downgrades over other versions.
It will be funny if someone demake hl2 and ported to the PS2
@@farsjamal6865 They actually did it recently believe it or not.
1:32 How is a lighting on this overbrighted building is so high contrast? Radiosity should not give such result.
+crystallize It does in both DX6 and DX9, not sure what you're on about.
Micah John It does in both DX6 and DX9 because lightmaps are very basic technology, not realy dependent of DirectX version or OpenGL or whatever.
crystallize I know
I don't know what you're ona bout with the building being "overbrighted"
the sun is casting light directly onto it, it's looking how I would expect it to.
Micah John Yes, it looks how it should look, except those balconyes that are too dark. And I personally don't like when lighting is so bright it's destroying texture details.
crystallize
Well I'm sorry to say that's how the game looks.
I remember GF3Ti generation and day, when DirectX 8.1 was released.
It was really awesome games and graphics.
I'll be honest, this is not *THAT BAD* , you know. Definitely not top-notch quality, but digestible if your PC sucks balls.
Sraigius
It would look good for the classic Xbox and possibly even PlayStation 2.
@@TyrannoWright half life 2 is on the classic Xbox lol
@@mooseyexists Wow, really? No fucking shit.
@@TyrannoWright and it runs in DX8.1 with medium gfx quality at 480p. The framerate kinda sucks, but it is still very playable.
Correct me if im wrong, but wasn't half life 2 supposed to originally run on DirectX 6 or DirectX 7?
zeubersandvitch No, support is only here as it was standard for the time (DX 6, 7, and 8 rolled out very closely together).
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How come it looks like real life on Dx6 GeForce 2 Mx400 when GTAV on Dx11 on 1080Ti can't look that good ?
Still looks better than most Xbox/PS games
I remember installing DX6 to play Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine lol.
now what about directx 5.0
the default is 0? what does DirectX 0 look like?
0 resets it to the "recommended" dxlevel for the detected hardware. So for this engine it would be 90, later engines it would be 95.
This still looked amazing for the time. I prefer the old DX8 look of the game cause that's how I remember it when I first played it back in the day. On DX9 post Steam-pipe update, game looks too shiny.
Me too. Plus they changed the engine in like 2009 to the Orange box one, and its just all wrong now. hl2 is supposed to not have reflections on water for the OG 2004 experience
Impossible todo on anniversary update
OMG Make a tutorial please, and will this work with directx7 and smod?
3:54 did you try turning it on and off and do you have amd graphics card?
Xounari narinari and performs much better on hl2
Are there any walkthroughs on how to get this working , i had a look but couldnt find any
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still lower hardware requirements i suppose.
How could i do this myself?
How to do cartoony fire?
Dr. Polaris That's what the fire looked like in the original 2004 release.
same problem in this stage lagging
So how do you run the 2004 version as a mod?
blackstang2200 This is not a mod Maybe the Steam version.
Friend of mine ripped the hl2 folder from the original retail CD for me.
Cool,I Have same stuff too with HL1.(RIPPED)
how did you start it like this on steam
GrabesstilleV2 TV I ran the original DVD's hl2 folder as a sourcemod.
Took about an hour or so of tweaking but it works for the most part, the game crashes when trying to save and NPCs get stuck at points with elevators (1st meeting with Alyx, Mossman during Black Mesa East, etc.) but that's the only problems I've seen when playing with it.
Might go back and try to fix the NPC issue, but haven't really cared to, it would be illegal for me to redistribute.
So, take hl2 from 2004, go to steamapps, sourcemods and paste hl2 in there?
You need to rename it to hl2_2004 and tweak the gameinfo.txt to use the Source 2006 SDK engine.
Micah John where can i find the retail cd version
*****
The only place I have DX6 running is on HL2 beta. And by the way, there's a DX7 version of the shotgun with missing textures. It's the HL2 Beta's Shotgun.
It's kinda painful watching you spam the pistol rapidly like that. It loses accuracy when you do that!
this version looks like the xbox version
Suprisingly, it still looks really good for it's age.
Yeah.
its*
This is what the Xbox version would be like if it was targeting 60FPS instead of 30.
I want this
Now DX 3
How can i do this?
th-cam.com/video/D_9hP2BA16Y/w-d-xo.html
oh man, thanks. But what about making it run on Source SDK Base 2006? i know for a fact that its not hacked to run on it, (obviously) i tried a lot of times to make steam refer to it as a mod, how did you do it?
EDIT : i really want to test every scripted sequence, usually the execution of these is listed in the console.
I don't understand.
Just use the old engine unpack from SourceRuns, which didn't exist when I made this video: sourceruns.org/source/downloads/
alright, thanks for the help!
also, i have the original orange box therefore i can make my own half life 2 copy using these scripts
Xbox port confirmed thanks gabe
I thought dx6 was 2d only
I'm sorry.
Looks like the xbox version wich was my first encounter with hl2 after playing on w98 :)
At least it still have shadows
has*
Now do Crysis!
does this still work?
Yeah, on a retail install. th-cam.com/video/D_9hP2BA16Y/w-d-xo.html
thanks! i have a pretty bad pc, maybe this can make it playable!
wow great bro it works!
looks fine to me
Link download?? half life 2 (2004) ??
Posting a link to download the game for free would be illegal.
will it increase fps?
You can't even run the current Steam version of this game in DX6, lowest there is 8.1, which introduces graphical glitches even worse than seen here.
You'd have to download a version of the game running on the old engine (2006 or earlier), which runs faster anyway.
@@MicahJohn21659 oooof, now i think i have to change back to dx 9. asap. and where to get the old engine? any pirated links?? mmm
Yes, (mat_dxlevel 60 or 70) -- in 80, shader effects will appear (like water) which will decrease FPS.
@@stalinguy2256 Half-Life 2 Collectors Edition (2153).iso
google it
install by running hl2.exe (not setup.exe -- otherwise it will attempt to install Steam)
Oh god, that feels so wrong
graphics matter
Looks like CS 1.6
Your gay! 2:08
On what setting are you playing, low?
Decimus I used the default settings with dxlevel 60, they're shown at the beginning of the video.
thank you dude :)
I should have know this before
Perfect for crappy laptops
if anyone wants to know how to do this, hit me up.
I have a pre november 2004 release of half life 2 ripped from dvd aswell
I just link people to XJR9000's release, probably should add to the video description.
th-cam.com/video/D_9hP2BA16Y/w-d-xo.html
@@MicahJohn21659 haha, that's the one i have
*If lagging see the log.Maybe too many errors.*
you definetely changed the appid in the gameinfo :V
definitely*
I have solution why it drops to 1-10 frames per sec there because your Half Life 2 is cracked :D
OMG HOW YOU FUCKING DO ITTTT MAKE A FUCKING TUTORIAAAALLLL
Dude. He ripped the stuff from a retail copy of HL2.
that is no directx 6.0.. this can be opengl or 8.0 ....9.0.... but not 6.0 cos then the textures shood look like squares...
Elza Vilka Not specifically.
This is DX6.
Whell lets hope that you are right cos if not ...........................!
Mabey but hes still wron :}
+Elza Vilka Squares are "nearest" texture mode, lack of filtering. Filtering should be possible on DX6 so textures should look like vaseline, without squares.
+crystallize Texture filtering was posible since dx3. Remember Monster Truck Madness or Hellbender?
I know how HL2 ends.
I just tell you this much: Don't get to attached to Alex...
Do GTA V
More like ErectXXX 6.9
My phone runs it better and with better graphics then this...
@GoTi4No ik. was partialy a joke. my phone do run it better, i kow he is using dk6, is literaly on the tittle :)
Your modern phone is very likely to outperform any cutting edge PC of 2004 including multimillion workstations.