HDR: HL2 Lost Coast

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast – Direct3D

Notes

The GeForce 8800 GTX is largely CPU-bound in Half-Life 2 Lost Coast. As you can see, performance barely changes going from 1280x1024 to 1600x1200 with this GPU, even with the FX-62 we only saw a 3% performance hit. In comparison the X1950 XTX’s performance dropped by 19% with the FX-62.

The GeForce 8800 GTS isn’t quite as powerful as the GTX, and thus it isn’t nearly as CPU-bound as the GTX card is, although clearly the card is CPU-limited with the X2 3800+, 4200+, and 4600+ at resolutions of 1600x1200 and lower.

Lost Coast is an older build of Source though, which is why we’ve also started testing with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, which is also based on Valve’s Source engine, but pushes the graphics card much more.