...What?

I think they'd really appreciate some of these pictures on the Source forums...

Nah, I think the mods might lock the threads, or ban me.

By "maxed settings," I mean highest detail levels, and No anti-aliasing or trilinear filtering. That's the only reason modern A64 computers (such as the one I was reffering to) would fail to get anything less than 60fps, aside from running it at 1600x1200; I was presuming amore "normal" (and certainly less-spoiling) resolution of mabye 800x600 or perhaps even 1024x768. Source and Doom3's engines are the first of the next generation, and will likely last in their current incarnations for several years; Unreal 3's engine actually isn't really any more demanding than the other two. (polygon counts and texture detail are close to the same) since both will run at 60 fps, it would be safe to say that until the next generation of game engines hits the market, that card will still be good.

No, it still fails to hit 60 constantly even w/out AA and AF and Trilin. Sorry. Unreal 3 engine will be massively more demanding--the polygon count is a helluvalot more, and textures are huge. Remember how the 6800 was the only card it even ran decently on?

ok since most of you want to know

http://necropimp.home.insightbb.com/howtounlockhl2.png

Man, is there nothing Photoshop can't do?

How do you explain the screenshots then? I've searched all over the net and haven't found them anywhere.

it can't make a sex slave magically appear under your desk... but i hear that feature will be in the next version

and the screenshots
mine
mzzt's

They could be from the leaked beta.

You guys are naughty.

Hmm... someone needs to hurry up and unlock it FOR REAL. At least before the authentication servers are activated.

yes, we are. the plot was actually hatched in #nes, hense the reason i joined in as well, though i didn't have the skill to fiddle with a real screenshot

Yeah, I liked the way MZZT's picture was complete with incorrectly capitalized/font'd menu options. Not to mention an inccorrect console font.

actually the menu options are correct except for the MP options... as it's been confirmed that HL2 has no MP which is why they threw CS:S in

I don't understand why it took so long for you people to remember that there are things called "image editors"

this is what my play games menu actually looks like



so

A Photoshop gag lasted this long? Wow, considering that if it wasn't a gag, it would've seen some sort of media, such as being Slashdotted at the very least. (of course, the gag may be present across the internet, and the gag might have recieved media attention...)

I think I'll explain how i made my ingame pic:

1) Found a CS:S map where there was a spot with 0% lighting.
2) Opened up the console. Saw a bunch of CS:S stuff in it. /cleared it out.
3) Typed the commands you saw.
4) Fixed it up in MSPaint. The fonts ARE correct (except for the W in NEW because there was no W in the pic... I inverted an M). I also erased the "Connected to localhost on map blah" line in the upper right., and erased the CSS logo in the middle of the screen (I could have pulled the HL2 logo from the Source SDK and applied it, didn't feel like it tho). I also made the picture knowing about the HL2DM rumor and decided to make it look as if the rumor was true (I hope it is!).

5) Found a good HL2 screenshot in the first few results of a google query. Probably shouldn't have picked the next one in the series from Jim's hehehehe...
6) Fired up the GIMP, overlayed the two images with a 75% opaqueness on the console shot. Exported to JPG. Resisted the urge to put "Haha *****" in the image comment.

Easy.

[Edit: grr p w n e d is starred out... ?_?]

Nice prank

YOURE ALL GOING TO BE BANNED FOR WAREZ

I was referring to the Steam forum, funnay man.

http://www.omgbbqcrackz.com/half-life2.html

Whoops >_>;;