HD Gaming: HL2 – Lost Coast

Valve’s Lost Coast technology demo gives us another chance to test at resolutions above 1600×1200.  And in this one, we get the added processing of HDR to deal with. 

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In our single card tests, the X1900 XTX is able to hold the lead without AA and AF enabled, but just barely loses it to the 7800 GTX 512 once they are turned on. 

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Both the X1900 CF and 7800 GTX 512 SLI setups run away from the X1800 and 7800 GTX configurations, but again with AA and AF enabled the 7800 GTX 512 SLI is able to take the win by more than 10 FPS.  

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