System specs for Lost coast

[dogboy73]

Will my system cut it for the Lost Coast? (See signature for system details).

 

[MiccyNarc]

Most likely, yes.

 

[$kelet0r]

what a ridiculous question considering ur specs- u'll be playing the best games for a few years to come with those
its people with a graphics card less than 128mb or a processor less than 2ghz or ram of 256mb who need to really worry

 

[clarky003]

if you want to know roughly how your PC handles HDR , get that HDR program with the skull.. it has settings for optimising your performance, like different bloom styles can improve frame rates or increase them, likewise with different texture filtering levels.. I just hope valve include a variety of choices to improve performance for lower spec machines.

 

[CptStern]

I dont see the lost coast having that high specs ...it'd be kind of a waste of valves time if they made a level just for for less than 5% of their audience. According to the recent hardware survey less than 4% have a 6800/x800 or better ...more people own a ati 9200 than a high end card ...my guess is that the lost coast will run on most machines but with HDR disabled in all but the best machines ...just my guess

 

[Ultimape]

if you want to know roughly how your PC handles HDR , get that HDR program with the skull.. it has settings for optimising your performance, like different bloom styles can improve frame rates or increase them, likewise with different texture filtering levels.. I just hope valve include a variety of choices to improve performance for lower spec machines.

Lost coast also has gigantic textures, which I think is the bigger reason as to why it's so intesive.

 

[clarky003]

you should still beable to have the option to filter those high res textures so the detail can be left out at a desired distance, if that isnt a flexable option then gabe doesnt get a cookie from me.

 

[dogboy73]

What a ridiculous question considering ur specs- u'll be playing the best games for a few years to come with those
its people with a graphics card less than 128mb or a processor less than 2ghz or ram of 256mb who need to really worry

That's encouraging. But I should point out that the AMD 64 Winchester 3000 is actually clocked at 1.8Ghz & I do only have a 128MB gfx card which is basically at the absolute bottom end of the 6800 series! Luckily I exceed the RAM requirements by 4 times though

 

[Cypher19]

I dont see the lost coast having that high specs ...it'd be kind of a waste of valves time if they made a level just for for less than 5% of their audience. According to the recent hardware survey less than 4% have a 6800/x800 or better ...more people own a ati 9200 than a high end card ...my guess is that the lost coast will run on most machines but with HDR disabled in all but the best machines ...just my guess

Surprise, surprise, Lost Coast is basically being made for that 5% of the community.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Surprise, surprise, Lost Coast is basically being made for that 5% of the community.

Exactly. Lost coast is designed for those of us with computers that beat the living crap out of other computers, and want to experience that fact to the max.

 

[The.Spiral]

I hope that 9800 will run it....

 

[The Monkey]

From PC Gamer UK: "3.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and a top spec graphics card."

 

[jondy]

I dont see the lost coast having that high specs ...it'd be kind of a waste of valves time if they made a level just for for less than 5% of their audience. According to the recent hardware survey less than 4% have a 6800/x800 or better ...more people own a ati 9200 than a high end card ...my guess is that the lost coast will run on most machines but with HDR disabled in all but the best machines ...just my guess

Yeah, but that was the whole point of the Lost Coast, a showcase for the best possible implementation of source technology. So it's bound to only fit 4% or so of Valve's demographic.

 

[CptStern]

Surprise, surprise, Lost Coast is basically being made for that 5% of the community.

makes absolutely no sense ..why spend so much time on free content that only 5 % can see? ...dont quote me on it but I beleive it'd be dumb not to release this to the general public. Only those with high end vid cards could use the new technology, everyone else can play it without the added effects

 

[KagePrototype]

makes absolutely no sense ..why spend so much time on free content that only 5 % can see? ...dont quote me on it but I beleive it'd be dumb not to release this to the general public. Only those with high end vid cards could use the new technology, everyone else can play it without the added effects

Think of it as a tech demo.

 

[subtlesnake]

Yes, this not a general level release, this is a "look at the future of Source" tech demo. Making it available to all would dilute its impact.

Besides, people with high end hardware need some sort of reward for forking out all that cash.

 

[CptStern]

well, I hope you're all wrong ...cuz I really want to play it

 

[Ev!lP!e]

Im sure somebody will crack it and give it to the peeps with cramp comps. Then we can have a competition

"Who can run Lost Coast On The Crappest GXG card without it sizzling"

But im afraid it will be the lucky 4% wit the top end Specs who will get it. £1500 to play one level, go them,lol

 

[subtlesnake]

well, I hope you're all wrong ...cuz I really want to play it

Hah, I'm lucky, I've got a friend with a X800 XT PE so it's all good to me.

What you have to remember though is it's only 40 minutes or so. You wouldn't be missing out on masses of gameplay.

 

[CptStern]

doesnt matter ...that's still 40 minutes of valve goodness

 

[Pauly]

Can mine run it?
radeon x850xt
3.6ghz p4
2gb ram

 

[Chris D]

Will my system cut it for the Lost Coast? (See signature for system details).

Your specs are probably the best money can buy at the minute... What do you think?

 

[subtlesnake]

Actually his card is a 6800 LE, so the answer might be no.

 

[benpatient]

oh please. It won't run well on a radeon 9200 and probably not that well on a 9600 non-pro...it probably will need an athlon 2500+ to run properly, and it probably needs more than 512 mb of RAM.

But it's not going to "require" a 3.6ghz machine. any 9800 Pro or 6600GT will handle it easily, and an x800 will only be useful for higher resolutions than most people play at anyway.

There isn't even an athlon 3.6ghz processor, and HL2 runs better on athlons than P4s. (like almost all games do)

Any barton+ athlon with a real clock of 1.7-1.8ghz or higher will probably be sufficient, especially with a decent graphics card. Last year's mid-level mainstream (athlon 2500+, 9600 XT) should be sufficient to play 8x6 with the settings all on. Upgrade to a 9800pro/6600 GT or higher, and you can probably do whatever you want.

 

[jimbo118]

Can mine run it?
radeon x850xt
3.6ghz p4
2gb ram

i hope your taken the piss or you will recieve a virtual punch. :hmph:

 

[Solver]

The Lost Coast is a tech demo to show how good the Source engine can look. So it's not supposed to be playable on even 10% of computers.

The truth is, both Doom3 and HL2 obviously look worse than they can with their respective engines. Doom3 has mostly small areas and low-res textures, HL2 doesn't have dynamic lighting, and has numerous low-res textures and no detail textures. The Lost Coast will have very high-res textures, high-poly models, HDR and everything else to show absolutely the best quality possible at this moment.

I know I won't be playing it anytime soon, but at least I hope to see good, non-compressed DivX videos.

 

[Cole]

There isn't even an athlon 3.6ghz processor, and HL2 runs better on athlons than P4s. (like almost all games do)

God you are f*cking stupid.
Of course there isn't, but guess what.
A nice Amd Athlon 64 3200+ would do great!

You should be able to add "Or an equal amd" in your head.

HL2 doesn't have dynamic lighting

Wrong actually...it has Dynamic Lighting to an extent.

.it probably will need an athlon 2500+ to run properly

A amd Athlon 64 2500+ != P4 3.2ghz or 3.6ghz
Or how about
If(!(AmdAthlon642500+ == P4 3.2ghz or 3.6gz))
{
echo("Sorry try about an Amd Athlon 64 3200+ or possibly higher");
}
else
{
echo("This world is ****in screwed up or an error occured.");
}

I hope you understand...

 

[giant384]

no ur wrong about that a amd 64 2500+ = 2.5ghz p4

 

[dogboy73]

what a ridiculous question considering ur specs- u'll be playing the best games for a few years to come with those
its people with a graphics card less than 128mb or a processor less than 2ghz or ram of 256mb who need to really worry

I hope your right but the required specs don't favour my system where parts of HL2 sometimes struggles as it is with HIGH texture detail, SIMPLE REFLECTIONS, MEDIUM models & low AA/AF settings. To be on the safe side I would like to have a faster CPU & a much better GFX card than my current 6800LE. One of the new 512MB 6800 cards would be nice :E

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We talked with one of the Valve reps giving the presentation, and he said that although Lost Coast would require a pretty high-end system (3.2GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 6800GT or X800 Pro, et cetera), the Aftermath expansion pack would allow the player to disable HDR and tweak the visuals as usual.

I wonder if the Lost Coast is going to appear as a seperate game download in the list of Steam Games like HL2DM did. I guess it will be since a lot of HL2 players specs won't be up to scratch & therefore they won't want to download it anyway.