GPU Shoot-Out – Part II – Setting New Benches
Half-Life2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2 is still a popular game and is our oldest game we review. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is an additional level for this 2004 game. Lost Coast was released October, 2005 as a free download to all purchasers of Half-Life 2. Lost Coast was developed as a playable tech demo, intended to showcase the newly-added high definition range lighting – HDR – features of the Source Engine. Lost Coast features minor storyline details that were scrapped from Half-Life 2. A flyby of this level is played during the HL2 video stress test and it is very repeatable and quite accurate.
It appears that all of our video cards will hit the maximum 301 Frame rate cap. Only the minimums are interesting. You can certainly experiment with maxed-out filtering on any of these cards.
