NEWS: Half Life 2: Lost Coast has released!

[Turok]

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Available Now
October 27, 2005, 4:10 pm · Alfred Reynolds

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now available for play for all Half-Life 2 owners.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine, is available now to all owners of HL2. As a technology showcase, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast's system requirements are very high. During installation, Steam will prompt you if your system does not meet the recommended configuration. We hope you enjoy it.

Downloading... :)

[Tanktanium]

Played it...brought my rig to its knees :( 1680x1050 4xAA 8xAF with X850XT at 550/590 and 3700+ at 2.5...averaged 20-25 fps with HDR enabled.

[MaxxxRacer]

All I can say is wow.. the HDR and Bloom really does improve the graphics.. But it takes a MAJOR toll on the FPS..

[WesM63]

oo looks like its time to re-install HL2

[DeltZ]

gah... why'd i have to destroy my gfx card :rolleyes:

[Fresh Daemon]

Downloading now. We'll see how my 7800GTX likes it. Riddick with the soft shadows and FEAR have already resigned me to getting another for SLI at Christmas.

[g-a-m-e]

Did you guys see how the light changes when clouds block the sun ?

nice stuff

[lizardmech]

Ran fine at 1600x1200 2aa 8af on my x850xt clocked at 590/600

[Fresh Daemon]

Got it stable now. It consistently crashed within 30 seconds using 81.82 drivers, changed to 81.85 and it's fine.

1600x1200 4xAA/8xAF is playable. Not quite as smooth as the original HL2, though, it's not jerky but you can see a difference if you pan around in a corner and when you're looking at something like the church roof with a lot of the HDR effects.

Seems buggy though. First there was the driver crash issue, and I've also noticed that if you quicksave and reload again, any Combines that you killed before are no longer lying on the ground but hovering upright in midair.

[eddieate]

looks wicked :)
@fresh Daemon i noticed the loading glitch and the poison headcrabs were really glitchy, one of them flew like in HL2 when you chuck someone into those weird gravity feilds near the end when you have the blue gravity gun, weird but then i suppose its not an actuall game just a showcase...
/Ed

[techstyled]

Good thing I just upgraded my X800XT PE to SLI 7800's yesterday.

Downloading now.

[Fresh Daemon]

Yes, now that you mention it the poison headcrabs did just crawl out and didn't leap at you the way they did in HL2. Made them pretty easy to kill.

I suppose they will probably fix these things in time. It's only just been released, although to be honest, those two things should have been obvious in playtesting really. Like you say, if it's just supposed to be a techdemo, then they might not bother.

I expect the HDR effects will be part of Aftermath.

Good thing I just upgraded my X800XT PE to SLI 7800's yesterday.

Looks like these games are starting to catch up to the hardware. My 7800GTX laughs at HL2 and positively wets its pants with Max Payne 2, but with FEAR and Lost Coast, SLI is looking very tempting.

Personally I'm not going to make a move until Christmas, and we'll see what Crossfire X1800's can do compared to SLI'ed 7800GTXs.

[Hicks]

I also get the combine bug, where there in mid air.

I seem to be stuck, a door closed behind me, and i can't seem to open the doors to the church??

The engine is awesome, and it would be cool if HL2: Aftermath had this HDR. it looks 10 times more realistic than Far Cry.

Decent frame rate at 1600x1200 no AA/AF. Running AA/AF seems a bit to slow for me, these 7800's are crap with AA/AF in modern games.

[clayton]

I'm still stuck, its crashing everytime I turn HDR on... weird...

[Fresh Daemon]

I seem to be stuck, a door closed behind me, and i can't seem to open the doors to the church??

You mean you're in the church and can't get out? Pull the panels off the gun's ammo well with the gravity gun and stick one inside it so it jams.

Decent frame rate at 1600x1200 no AA/AF. Running AA/AF seems a bit to slow for me, these 7800's are crap with AA/AF in modern games.

My 7800GTX seems fine at the settings I mentioned. Let's not be greedy. My first 3D accelerator was the original 3Dfx Voodoo, and Quake (the first Quake) at 640x480 was jawdropping at the time. Now we're complaining because we can't have 1600x1200 4xAA/16xAF on games that look monumentally better. :)

I'm still stuck, its crashing everytime I turn HDR on... weird...

Try getting the 81.85 drivers. Fixed it for me.

[texuspete00]

Buggy for me on 81.85

http://www.ec329.com/CT_HL2LC.JPG

[Turok]

The game is like a really short demo.
Gordon is sudently teleported to a coast, your mision is to destroy a cannon, and when you comeplete your mision they teleport you somewhere else... The End.

Its a bit buggy. I noticed two bugs:
1) I kill a combine, I cross a checkpoint, I die, I load the game where I was, I go back to check on the dead combine, and I see the combine with the model when you dont have any weapons (Standing, with the arms wide open), and I can pass though him
2) When I go in the churck, and I move the huge chandelier with my Gravity-Gun, it swings back and foward with no rope holding it, while the rope that was holding it stays still in the same spot

[einCe]

he game is like a really short demo.
Gordon is sudently teleported to a coast, your mision is to destroy a cannon, and when you comeplete your mision they teleport you somewhere else... The End.
thats cause this level was origionally part of the highway level but was taken out.

and texus pete, it does that when you noclip across the map because you will never see that angle without flying there, those are all detail props.
if im wrong about where you are shoot me. if not gimme a cookie.

[Thorry]

Can't play it, I've only got 512 MB of memory so it keeps swapping all of the time killing my FPS.

Rest of the system should be up to it, 2800 mhz A64 Venice, 2x256 MB of BH-5 @ 280 1T 5-2-2-2 CL2, overclocked 6800 Ultra.

Sigh... won't upgrade my memory since I'll be buying M2 soon.

[clayton]

You mean you're in the church and can't get out? Pull the panels off the gun's ammo well with the gravity gun and stick one inside it so it jams.

No, it just crashes everytime I run the game. Anybody got the same problem as me?

EDIT: Used 1 videocard and everything works fine. :(

[Vapor]

Welp, I must say I'm incredibly impressed....except for the end, how do you win? I blow up the Copter and then it's me and the 'patio.' No where to go, nothing to do except fireoff what rounds of ammunition I have left.

Anyway, I found another bug....kinda funny actually. It happens when you save after you've killed a whole bunch of Combine and die somewhere else. When you come back to the save point, the Combine you killed are well.....I'll let the picture do the talking.
http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/7459/combinestatuecopy5hj.th.jpg (http://img470.imageshack.us/my.php?image=combinestatuecopy5hj.jpg)
Full HDR, 4xAA 16xAF, 1680x1050 fully playable too.....absolutely gorgeous display.

[SnipingWaste]

Can't play it, I've only got 512 MB of memory so it keeps swapping all of the time killing my FPS.

Rest of the system should be up to it, 2800 mhz A64 Venice, 2x256 MB of BH-5 @ 280 1T 5-2-2-2 CL2, overclocked 6800 Ultra.

Sigh... won't upgrade my memory since I'll be buying M2 soon.

I don't have that problem. I using a S754 3000+ with 512 meg ram and 9800Pro. Runs just fine with 1028X768 with med settings with HDR.

[Mr. Tinker]

Buggy for me on 81.85
I have that SAME EXACT screenshot! enCie, that's not with NoClip. It was like NoClip was semi-enable accidentally. I could go through some walls but not through others. This was after a death during a retry. The same time the Combine were floating dead crusifix style. buggy.

[Fresh Daemon]

No, it just crashes everytime I run the game. Anybody got the same problem as me?

I was trying to address Hicks' problem.

Welp, I must say I'm incredibly impressed....except for the end, how do you win? I blow up the Copter and then it's me and the 'patio.' No where to go

Look down, drop onto the scaffolding below where the crate of rockets is and work your way around to the church courtyard.

Anyway, I found another bug....kinda funny actually. It happens when you save after you've killed a whole bunch of Combine and die somewhere else. When you come back to the save point, the Combine you killed are well

It seems that everyone is seeing this. It amazes me that something like that could have made it past QC. I mean, none of the beta testers loaded, ever?

[Magnj]

:( kinda un-impresive without HDR

[eddieate]

dont you think the lighting in the church is kinda reminiscent of rthdribl? i was expecting to see some floating marbles hanging round in there :p:
/Ed

[Leeum]

The HDR is amazing :eek:

http://www.aslr97.dsl.pipex.com/lostcoasts.jpg (http://www.aslr97.dsl.pipex.com/lostcoast.jpg)

Pity it's so short, I was looking forward to going to the feast with the fisherman dude at the end :(

[perkam]

I have that SAME EXACT screenshot! enCie, that's not with NoClip. I dont think that problem is limited to Lost Coast. Same thing happened with me in DoD:S in Avalanche Map few seconds out of spawn.

I think its a source bug, not a HL bug.

Perkam

[Turok]

Welp, I must say I'm incredibly impressed....except for the end, how do you win? I blow up the Copter and then it's me and the 'patio.' No where to go, nothing to do except fireoff what rounds of ammunition I have left.

Anyway, I found another bug....kinda funny actually. It happens when you save after you've killed a whole bunch of Combine and die somewhere else. When you come back to the save point, the Combine you killed are well.....I'll let the picture do the talking.
http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/7459/combinestatuecopy5hj.th.jpg (http://img470.imageshack.us/my.php?image=combinestatuecopy5hj.jpg)
Full HDR, 4xAA 16xAF, 1680x1050 fully playable too.....absolutely gorgeous display.

Afther you destroy the chopper, you jsut go right and hop on a large metalic basket. Then you are lowered down, you talk to the fisherman, and you get teleported elsewhere... The End.

BTW, I already mentioned the dead combine bug in my previous post

[texuspete00]

thats cause this level was origionally part of the highway level but was taken out.

and texus pete, it does that when you noclip across the map because you will never see that angle without flying there, those are all detail props.
if im wrong about where you are shoot me. if not gimme a cookie.


You talking about that no clip hack where you can float around the map? I'm just trying to play the thing.

[Vapor]

Afther you destroy the chopper, you jsut go right and hop on a large metalic basket. Then you are lowered down, you talk to the fisherman, and you get teleported elsewhere... The End.

BTW, I already mentioned the dead combine bug in my previous postMeh...never bothered to read your post.

[bullet2urbrain]

well im really peeved at this game.. i downloaded after a friend mentioned he couldnt run it so i offered to download it and let him enjoy it on a decent system.

but the game is weird.. it says i dont have minimum system requirements.. says I have a -18.0ghz CPU.. which is wrong obviouslky


then i loaded it anyway.. let it autodetect the systems it wanted to use on my GFX Card.. and it kept freezing it would freeze for like 30 seconds everytime i would use the gravity gun to pick up a boat in the beginning.. could be the 81.84 drivers i have right now.. i will try the new 81.85 and see.

also my specs are

x2 @ 2.5ghz
TCCD @ 250 2.5-3-3-7
7800GTX

[Tim]

well im really peeved at this game.. i downloaded after a friend mentioned he couldnt run it so i offered to download it and let him enjoy it on a decent system.

but the game is weird.. it says i dont have minimum system requirements.. says I have a -18.0ghz CPU.. which is wrong obviouslky


then i loaded it anyway.. let it autodetect the systems it wanted to use on my GFX Card.. and it kept freezing it would freeze for like 30 seconds everytime i would use the gravity gun to pick up a boat in the beginning.. could be the 81.84 drivers i have right now.. i will try the new 81.85 and see.

also my specs are

x2 @ 2.5ghz
TCCD @ 250 2.5-3-3-7
7800GTX


Yea I'd definitelty check out the official drivers...the .84 were pretty buggy for me...

[Vapor]

Yeah, bullet, you definitely want to check out 81.85! They kickass for X2s and gaming.