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- Date:
- Thursday , September 11, 2003
- Author:
- Kyle Bennett
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Valve's Gabe Newell Speaks
Half Life 2 is going to be the impetus that sells millions of dollars worth of hardware this buying season. Valve makes no issue of telling you that ATI's video card is the one to have in your box. And yes, there is a killer benchmark...
The Story
The following is a slide presentation that was the topic of conversation at yesterday's "Shader Day" presentation sponsored by ATI. Gabe Newell of Valve Software had a long and heartfelt talk about video cards and what was simply going to be the best hardware to run Half Life 2 on. Instead of playing armchair quarterback, we are going to walk you through the important slides of his presentation. In this instance it is just better if we shut up for the most part and let you here it from the people that built the game.
Since publishing this article NVIDIA has released an official statement.
The Facts According to Valve
As you can see from the above graphic that this is a very recent presentation from Gabe Newell.
In this slide we see Gabe outline the technical direction of Half Life 2 and exactly that it is very much a DX9 title. Closing here we see Gabe refer to HL2 being used as a benchmark.
Here we get a bit into the features that are powered by the DX9 technology and how the hardware will interact.
Specifically the benchmark is focused on in this slide. Specs for the following benchmarks are given as well as how prices were calculated. Yes, be expecting the public benchmark on September 30th.