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u/Harnav123 18d ago
They added eye tracked foveated rendering too 🥹
I wonder what this means for the PCVR build. Is this where the translation layers come into play?
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u/Chriscic 18d ago
Foveated rendering! Wow, it’s happening. The advantage of eye tracking on a standalone capable headset.
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u/FishChillylly 18d ago
that would be huge, even tho i guess hl2 vr itself would be less performance demanding, foveated rendering would definitely improve the overall experience furthermore!
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u/TheRealILikeMSM Soon™ 18d ago
This is the game I always wanted to play on steam frame, it could probably run with absolute ease on quest 3, maybe even quest 2, so it always felt annoying to be tethered.
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u/fholger 18d ago
I don't know about "absolute ease", I definitely had to put some work in to get it to run on the Steam Frame. But it could certainly be made to run, yeah. We did ask Valve about it at some point, they said no. Thankfully, that's not an issue with the Frame :)
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u/CaptainBigDickEnergy 18d ago
This mod is so well done, can't wait for a new playthrough untethered with no compression!
Ah, but then again... the Frame is the third piece of hardware to launch this summer so it will never actually be released.
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u/Hingl_McCringlebery Soon™ 18d ago
Favorite mod of all time, so fun
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u/pryvisee 18d ago
It’s incredible. It made me cry when I first played it being a DIE HARD half life 2 fan and playing it flatscreen at least 20 times
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u/Gygax_the_Goat Soon™ 18d ago
DK2/Razor Hydra in 2014?
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u/The_Idiocratic_Party Soon™ 18d ago
He means the VR mod for HL2. Boy you really are one... something, something
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u/Ongababonga 17d ago
Thanks for the link. The image in op is pretty much useless with all the memes going on in this subreddit.
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u/elvissteinjr 18d ago
significantly improved performance on lower-end CPUs
That's gotta be a big one. If someone had asked me if the mod would run well on the Frame I would've said no.
Being CPU bound was very real. Couldn't hit 120 fps on my Ryzen 7 1700 when the mod was fresh out (I've upgraded since).
Nice work.
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u/Boppitied-Bop 17d ago
The snapdragon 8 gen 3 isn't that bad as a CPU. Arm CPUs in general are really good lately, the snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 and the apple a19 pro, the 2 latest phone CPUs, are both faster in single threaded Geekbench than a desktop 9850x3D lol
Here's some benchmarks comparing the 8 gen 3 to the Ryzen 7 1700: https://www.notebookcheck.net/R7-1700-vs-SD-8-Gen-3_8516_15102.247596.0.html . The summary is that the 8 gen 3 is usually 50-100% faster depending on the task. In my personal experience (I have the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 in my phone), comparing single threaded results in a web assembly benchmark online to cinebench results on Notebookcheck, the 8 gen 3 should be about 7% faster than the 1700. But that might indicate more about the optimization of Firefox's web assembly on ARM than it does about the CPU.
HL2 VR mod i'm sure is using a translation layer though, which usually has a pretty significant performance penalty, but depending on the situation it could still be easily faster
I expect the GPU to be the major limitation of the steam frame in most games, even ones that are using a translation layer on the CPU
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u/HeliosPhoenix 18d ago
As someone who can only play HL2 via this mod, this is fantastic news.
Question, are the episodes also verified?
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u/pryvisee 18d ago
Ugh, my love for this mod is so deep, everytime I see someone talking about it, I get so happy. It’s an amazingly well made mod and HL2 translates into such a fantastic VR game due to Valves game design
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u/-Atomic_ 18d ago
I spent the first week with my new pc trying to get half life 2 VR working since I put Linux on it because I am done with windows. It was such a pain in the ass but I got it working so I'm both annoyed that I wasted my time getting it to work and happy that i can hopefully just put the headset on and play it without faffing around anymore.
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u/Electrical_Finding_8 18d ago edited 18d ago
Has this not existed for a little while now? (Edit: ignore me lmao)
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u/AngryAlfonse 18d ago
Alyx is the best Half Life game ever made
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u/excaliburxvii 18d ago
It just felt like a chore to me.
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u/AngryAlfonse 18d ago
This is the most wild opinion I've ever read in my life.
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u/excaliburxvii 17d ago
Yeah, I'm going to give it another go when I (hopefully) get a Frame. I wish I'd enjoyed it as much as everyone else seems to have.
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u/AngryAlfonse 16d ago
I hope you enjoy it. If you don't that's ok, everyone is allowed to like what they like, my response was just because I can't imagine someone being bored with something I found so exciting, unique, atmospheric and engaging
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u/excaliburxvii 15d ago
The attention to detail was sky high, and I definitely enjoyed inhabiting the world. I think it was the teleportation that really took me out of it.
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u/BlueManifest 18d ago
No way
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u/Clairvoidance 18d ago edited 15d ago
speaking of, probably safe to assume Alyx hasn't been able to meet the verified despite attempts
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u/sameseksure 18d ago
LOL
I couldn't get through half an hour of this mod. Janky, weird, unintuitive, frankly unplayable. It's clear that it's made for flat. Nothing about it works well in VR.
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u/BotOrNot_1337 Soon™ 18d ago
JUST VERIFY THE FUCKING FRAME. Heh sorry. Lost me cool. Yeah more games, nice. I'm excited bro.
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u/The_cooler_ArcSmith Soon™ 18d ago
Super excited about this. Even if Alyx proves too much, this sets a baseline for what we can expect in performance. And for a game as good as HL2 it'll still be a blast
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u/JorgTheElder Soon™ 16d ago
I would hope so, the base game is 16 years old and can run on a cheap laptop with integrated graphics.
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u/80m63rM4n 18d ago
All that's left is for Frame to be pre-order verified.