I just patched DirectX so my Nvidia card will run in DX9 level! im goin' to disney land! <<< semi-obscure song reference :D

check out the realisticness of this; on a FX 5200 card no less!

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthegeek/hl2.jpg

long story short, the ppl who wrote Half Life 2 crafted the directx dll such that Nvidia cards will always perform worse then ATI cards. obvisly a marketing stratagy, but it sux for those of us who bought a Nvidia card be4 hand.
i read how to run this app and patch the dll so it looks way better....me happy. :wow:


anyhow, in other news, im learning how to make half life 2 models so mabye the idea of HL2 > Chex will go somewhere...note how this time im not talking in the 90%-red-bull-blood-content voice, learned my lesson from running into walls on the Half Life 1, quake, and jDoom chex conversion projects and subsequetly ditching them.

i will tell u that u can run the half life 2 demo free of charge, that means that i can create a bunch of chex stuff and new maps and re distribute the whole thing legaly without yall having to buy half life 2. i think its going to be slightly impossible to create things like flemoids seeing as there something like 2000 frames in one of the combine physics models...im aiming for creating a zorcher model that reloads correctly.

for the mini zorcher, what do u guys think of a clip of zorch ammo poping into the bottom of the zorcher? possibly attaching via the "+" thing on it??



if i can get anything to work i will post something.

Cool, can you send me the DLL?

That violates the EULA, and it's impossible anyway

also using hacked DLLs will get you banned by their crappy VAC2 system.

And finally.... -dxlevel 90