Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Direct X)


Lost Coast is the free technology demo that Valve created to show off their HDR rendering technique.  Because this method of doing HDR (high dynamnic range) lighting uses integer math instead of floating point, both ATI and NVIDIA cards can do both HDR and AA at the same time. 

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 80

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 81

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 82

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 83

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 84

XFX GeForce 7800 GS XT Edition - An AGP Upgrade - Graphics Cards 85

With both HDR and AA enabled, the NVIDIA 7800 GS is able to beat up on the X850 XT PE by nearly 35%.

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