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Telegrams: Half Life 2 & RX Vega Hype (Patreon)

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2020-07-01 22:20:58
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Within a couple days we plan to do at least one of the attached subjects for a Die Shrink.


What are your HL2 memories and thoughts?   What do you remember about the hype leading up to Vega 64/56...and the resulting performance?

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Brian Scanlon

HL2: I remember the awkward loading times in the middle of levels that took a long time because of no SSD. But more seriously, the design was colorful, performance was good, and the story was interesting. The game made good use of physics at the time to solve puzzles without going overboard. I think this was right around the time of "episodic content" starting to be discussed (maybe just before) and the idea of smaller, but more frequent (and less pricey) content updates seemed compelling at the time. Also, there were some very cool mods that followed on (like the cinematic mod) that really demonstrated what was possible with community interest. Compared to today's games, I feel like the replayability for HL2 was much higher.

Brian Scanlon

Vega Hype: As much as I fanboy for AMD, Vega (in all its incarnations) was a bitter disappointment vs. what NVidia offered for similar price points. Whether a lucky fluke or just better effort (thinking about the 1080 and 1080 Ti here), NVidia ran away with the more compelling product hands down. I hoped for more competition (performance or pricing), but I had to switch to the Green team for a little while (don't want to reward "bad behavior"). That can be applied a lot of different ways, but to keep this less long, when AMD delivers a good product, they deserve the sales. When they don't, be open enough to get what makes sense I guess.

Anonymous

For some reason what's really stuck with me are the sounds. Playing Half Life Alyx really brings back memories, but no moment more so than when I first put my virtual hand on the health dispenser and heard that healing sound.

John Dorman

RX Vega was hyped a ton. The disappointing thing wasn't the GPU. Vega10 is actually pretty badass. It's how it got connected to the world. Bad cooling, bad drivers, bad SKUs. Liquid Vega is actually a boss to this day. Pushing 5700(XT) level performance 3 years later and quiet as a mouse. THAT was the product AMD should have been moving weight with. Instead they overpowered their blower cooler and still lost. Smdh

Aiden

Didn't play HL2 and don't really play on PC

Anonymous

Vaga hype was making me want to upgrade my reference 390x for something a bit cooler but when I saw the final number after release I decided not to even bother. The prices where what put me off the most never really saw one for under $500. The first time I saw HL2 was when the source code got leaked. A friend downloaded it and we all toyed around with the physics room. Sticky ball gun was amazing but all our PCs couldn't handle it. 100 sticky bombs on the bottom of a barrel made a cool rocket. The chug was fun when it crashed into thing, hole 4 fps. Never really played it that much tell the orange box came out; had a pc that could actually play it by then

Josh Law (adn)

the first time i played half life two was when i was young (maybe around 10) on a friends PC and i remember being blown away by the physics and the environments (not necessarily just the graphics but the environmental storytelling and the setting of the game). i was a poor child and the most up to date games i had played up to that point were halo CE and Unreal 98 on my familys Pentium 4 computer, i regularly replayed halo CE on legendary on minimim graphics on our commodity CRT, and seeing a game like half life that was such a different style of game running on a very nice flat panel with max settings on my much more fortunate friends personal computer (i believe it had a core 2 quad extreme) i think is one of the moments that helped cement me into PC gaming. it was many years later that i finally played the game to completion after picking it up on steam, after building my first PC. vega 56/64. it wasnt long ago that i was a senior in high school and the graphics card i wanted the most was the powercolor red devil vega 56, i was aware vega was hot and power hungry but i remember the price to performance (and admittedly the asthetic of that particular card) being very appealing. however i wouldn't buy one today outside of just wanting to collect the hardware

GuitarGuy

I remember getting the Strix Vega 64 on launch, installing it in the old mac pro I was running, then later replacing the thermal paste and thermal pads and beginning undervolting and overclocking. I had to use a second PSU to not trip OCP on my mac PSU cause it wasn't built for a GPU pulling that much wattage. Once I got onto ryzen the performance jumped a lot over those 08 Xeons. then a bit later sold the vega to a buddy who needed something to edit with, and bought my first Radeon VII. I may keep an eye out to grab a vega frontier just to have one. the HBCC did a world of difference in render stability on larger projects.

GuitarGuy
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at the time I came from running gtx 1050Ti and 1060 that kept crashing on me. so vega was a rather large leap for me in both performance and stability. I could see how overall it was disappointing to others who had more powerful cards before that.