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23 Nov 2004, 10:21am
AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com) have thrown up part 1 and 2 of their Half Life 2 GPU Roundup.
View: Part 1 (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2278) - Part 2 (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281)
It's no big surprise that ATI and Valve have been working very closely with one another with the development of Half Life 2.
Valve would not let either ATI or NVIDIA have a copy of the final Half Life 2 game in order to prevent any sorts of leaks from happening. Judging by the fact that Half Life 2 is the only game in recent history to not be leaked before its official street date (we don't consider being able to purchase an unlockable copy to be "leaked"), Valve's policy about not letting anyone have the game worked quite well.
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ATI seemed quite confident in their performance under Half Life 2 from our conversations with them before the game's launch, while the atmosphere at NVIDIA was considerably more cautious and often times, downright worried. From our talks with NVIDIA we got the distinct impression that we had more information about Half Life 2 (courtesy of ATI) than they did, in fact, they were not able to provide us with any insight into how their hardware would handle Half Life 2 other than that it would be playable and seems to run surprisingly well on even the older GeForce2 cards.
Source: AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com)
View: Part 1 (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2278) - Part 2 (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281)
It's no big surprise that ATI and Valve have been working very closely with one another with the development of Half Life 2.
Valve would not let either ATI or NVIDIA have a copy of the final Half Life 2 game in order to prevent any sorts of leaks from happening. Judging by the fact that Half Life 2 is the only game in recent history to not be leaked before its official street date (we don't consider being able to purchase an unlockable copy to be "leaked"), Valve's policy about not letting anyone have the game worked quite well.
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ATI seemed quite confident in their performance under Half Life 2 from our conversations with them before the game's launch, while the atmosphere at NVIDIA was considerably more cautious and often times, downright worried. From our talks with NVIDIA we got the distinct impression that we had more information about Half Life 2 (courtesy of ATI) than they did, in fact, they were not able to provide us with any insight into how their hardware would handle Half Life 2 other than that it would be playable and seems to run surprisingly well on even the older GeForce2 cards.
Source: AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com)