DX8.1 Water reflections

[Goo3y]

Hellooo!!!!

Since iv'e downloaded LostCoast i now get water reflections on my 5900XT DX8.1 =O i was shocked but this is cool. Can't they implement this into the original HL2 don't know why they didn't in the first place. That would be sweet, until i get my new rig

 

[Przemek]

As far as I recall, there is a modification that enables water reflections in DirectX 8.x mode.

Here, found it - but I can't recall in which folder you have to put those files :/


edit - extract those files into your materials folder, for example
e:\steam\steamapps\<username>\half-life 2\hl2\materials (the files are in Nature subfolder - so you should have Nature in Materials, and a few vmt files in Nature).
Overwrite any existing textures in the Nature subfolder. If you want to delete this mod, just delete the whole Nature folder in Materials - the game will restore the original ones if necessary.

 

[Goo3y]

Cheers i've used this patch before. But Valve have obviously coded is into LC so perhaps they should HL2 aswell.

 

[DrDevin]

No I dont think so.

I think LC forces DX 9 or DX 9+ mode because HDR requires it.

Check right below the HDR options to see if it is forced into DX9/9+ mode.

I might be wrong though but I dont think valve put DX9 effects into the DX 8 codepath.

 

[Przemek]

I don't see HDR on this pic, so I don't think DX9 mode was forced here...

 

[Goo3y]

It isnt forcing DX9 there is definately no HDR

 

[giant384]

i get water reflections with my 5700le whats so surprising

 

[Goo3y]

The fact it wasnt supported in HL2. Get with it.

 

[BeaverMon]

i get water reflections with my 5700le

Same card here. It's no different then it is in HL2.

 

[Goo3y]

There are no water reflections in HL2 on DX8.1 hardware as standard.

Just look at those beautiful relections (Sracasm btw before some1 says there are non)

 

[Przemek]

So, Goo3y - does the mod work?

 

[DarkDamo]

well since my card does fully support dx9 [6800 - not bragging], when i played through hl2 again i noticed that the water didnt really look any better then on my old 5900ultra-deluxe. the only difference is that there are reflections.

now in DoD: S and HL2: LC they have new water that looks better.....but too clean i recon. but the new water looks nice. i say that in a few months the water in hl2 will be updated to what it is in dods and hl2;lc.

-_- dods/hl2;lc water = great
hl2 dx9 water = good
hl2 dx8.1 water = alright

 

[giant384]

There are no water reflections in HL2 on DX8.1 hardware as standard.



Just look at those beautiful relections (Sracasm btw before some1 says there are non)

well i only have simple reflections and i get them without the dx9 patch so i dont see y you arent getting them because 5600 and below shouldnt get it

 

[Goo3y]

Post some screenshots then. And yeah the patch works iv'e had it before

 

[BeaverMon]

Goo3y, make sure "Reflect All" is selected in your settings. I don't have any patch.

 

[Vader6]

sorry for sounding like a newb, but how would I go about forcing DX9?

EDIT: yes I have tried searching

 

[giant384]

sorry for sounding like a newb, but how would I go about forcing DX9?

EDIT: yes I have tried searching

type in advanced launch option -dxlevel 90 but i wouldnt force it because you will prob. get bad fps