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If Valve wasn't such an incompetent company, yes OpenGL would be the prefered renderer. Sadly, they fail on a massive scale and playing this game in OpenGL will greatly compromise texture clarity even when using gl_nearest texture filtering. OpenGL has a bug where it applies a terrible filter to textures that are not a power of 2. Example of a power of 2 texture: 256x256. Example of a non-power of 2 texture: 128x256. You'd be doing yourself a great disservice by playing this game in OpenGL today.Ĭertain objects in the game use the latter for their textures and this makes the textures look HORRIBLE on OpenGL. Hell, I wouldn't even recommend the Steam version of it. I'd get a hold of the disc copy and patch it to the latest version of WON. Good think I kept the WON version (in the Half Life Generation aka the Blue Box) Originally posted by Ikagura:Thanks, I like the pixelly version of the textures You'll get back 5.1 surround sound and proper EAX/A3D, overbright lighting for HDR like effect, and no censorship on characters. Originally posted by Kurai Shidosha:Modern Valve blows. Also that is direct3d not actually software mode I dunno, opengl runs better on my computer and software mode has lots of issues including with lighting. It's only D3D11 because I am using a Direct Draw wrapper. I have to use this because starting in Windows 8, Microsoft deprecated native hardware accelerated DirectDraw support. This means any software renderer ran on Windows 8 and later is emulated. This is why OpenGL runs better for you than software, because OpenGL is operating system agnostic and is always hardware accelerated. With the 3rd party program "DGVoodoo 2", you can get back hardware acceleration for software rendering. It dynamically converts all DirectDraw calls into a D3D11 call which the GPU can handle. It is significantly more efficient and accurate than Microsoft's emulated jank.īut by all accounts, what you're seeing in my software screenshots are in-fact software rendered Half Life as it would have been viewed on Windows 7 and earlier systems, with the same high performance and accurate visuals.Playing the original Half Life retail CD (even with patches) on my Pentium III systems with Geforce cards seems to get me this peculiar texture issue, where a lot of models have just plain white textures and the HUD elements are all single-colour squares. I've been using the last drivers available officially from Nvidia's site, 81.98 I wanted to try the earlier 45.23 drivers that I've seen recommended, but something about the download (from PhilsComputerLab's site) didn't let Windows 98SE see them as drivers at all. And I've seen mentions that they're not necessarily the best for DX9 games anyway, not that the FX series are the best cards for those either, but I want to give mine the best chance y'know? And with an FX 5700 and the 1.4GHz Tualatin system that it's in, it feels suitable to have the freedom to see how well I can run certain DX9 games. I've not have any problems like this with other games I've tried Rome Total War had a visually somewhat similar issue when trying it on my Geforce 4, but was fine on my FX 5700, so I'm putting that down to a DX9 compatibility issue.
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So what could be happening here, and what could I try to troubleshoot or address this? Perhaps there could be some other recommended drivers or something, for instance. Release note don't mention the FX5700 and it is a later chip (NV36) than the FX5800: Well, if you play CS 1.5 with certain custom mini-gl drivers for your Voodoo 3, you can see through walls at some points due to clipping errors, giving you a competitive edge with heavier weapons like the scout, g3 or AWP. So, maybe you really need a slightly later version or to threaten your Windows to put it on an induction cooking pad if it does not comply with installing them. General note: I never had issues fragging people on a V3 in HL or CS and eventually upgraded to a GF4 Ti4200 without remembering much of a difference.
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Half-Life is a Titan of a game, but it's from 1998 and based on the Quake Engine from 1996. So, by Geforce FX standards already, it's ancient. Then, it got upgraded with all kinds of high res texture packs, etc, that won't be supported by the prehistoric engine and hence, not by any hardware 3d acceleration. Leaving all the heavy lifting to software and the CPU.