[HL2 - Ep 1, 2, and Lost Coast] AA settings and Direct X

[Onigryphon]

A couple of issues:

First, the CSAA settings in both Ep 1 and Ep 2 no longer appear under the menu. The only choices I have now are 2x msaa, 4x msaa, and 8x msaa.

Also, Lost Coast is defaulting to a direct x hardware level of 8.0. None of the other HL games are having this issue. Certain settings are greyed out for me such as the motion blur and color correction.

These are the immediate bugs I've noticed.

I'm using an nvidia 460gtx 768mb for my video card as reference.

[Onigryphon]

Just a quick update with regards to Lost Coast. The force dx command works in the launch options setting and allows the game to run as it should on my system. However, if you run the autoconfig command, the game once again defaults to dx 8.0.

Ok, after some more fidgeting, I've found that using the autoconfig command in any of the half life games running the steam pipe beta will set them all to a hardware level of dx 8. I have to manually go and use the dxlevel 95 command to set the graphics back to the way they are meant to be.

[Vash63]

I'm having the same issue with HL2 Steampipe. I tried it in Linux and everything seemed great - let me max out the graphics and ran smoothly. Went to Windows to try out Oculus VR support and got an error that VR does not work for dxlevel 8.0. Turned off VR and found that it was set to "Hardware Level 8.0" in the advanced video options and I could not max out the graphics. dxlevel 95 fixes it.

[jhoff80]

Oops, sorry for the dupe, I searched with DirectX as one word and didn't find this.

Anyway, to reiterate my issue here, I just joined the SteamPipe beta, and was disappointed to see it only used DX8 on DX11-capable hardware. On reverting to the non-beta version, the game properly selected DX9.8.

Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, AMD 6850, running Windows 8 x64.

Also, I tried both Catalyst drivers 13.4 and 13.5 betas.

[dagla]

I'm having the same issue, HL2 defaults to dxlevel 8 now. 5770 with the latest beta catalyst on windows 7 x64.

[IlyaGulya]

Same here. HL2: EP2 dxlevel 8. HD7770 latest beta catalyst Windows 8.

[JimPartridge]

With DXlevel 11 capable card (GEForce GTX 560M) game detects DXlevel 8 hardware. When activating DX 9.5 using console command, screen is covered in purple and black checkerboard like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/JimPartridge/screenshots/

[Gorriz]

Same issue in Portal 1 SteamPipe beta Windows 7 64 geforce 460 latest drivers (320.18) Game downloaded at 9 june 2013

[hitmen047]

Same issue in hl2. But @ ep1, ep2 all works well

Windows 8 x64, Nvidia GTX 480, lastest drivers (320.49)

[VicF1]

Win7x64 GTX660 320.18 SteamPipe "Final" 26.06.13 HL2 Ep1 Ep2 ONLY DX8 =(

[bioscmos303]

same here... dk8 only ....any news about fix soon?

[Gorriz]

Perfect, problem solved, great job VALVe Win 7 x64 GTX 460 320.18 games downloaded (HALF LIFE 2 - EPISODE 1 - EPISODE 2) 5 minutes ago 02-07-2013 Portal still having the problem.

[pdinc]

Reporting this problem on Episode 2. Win7 x64 with AMD 7850.

[samukawoosh]

Same problem here, it has been reported on steam forums http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3128878

[Gorriz]

Try redownload the games. Delete manually the files and folders.

[samukawoosh]

I followed the instructions of that HoltKezed guy in that steam forum thread, I got it working like 5 minutes ago!!

[Onigryphon]

The new beta has fixed one issue, that being the dx level not being detected properly, but there is still the issue of the specific nvidia aa options, such as the CSAA and so forth still not being available.

[bioscmos303]

missing dxsupport configuration files .. show only dx8..also for gmod13!!! but it fix gmod if i use old nvidia drivers from 2010- (im after reinstalling all my pc and steam games)

nvidia 460m,win7 64bit i7 p.s - if i run hl2 with old sdk source or old mods that use sdk 2007 -it run ok.... please fix....

[Plagman]

I believe the CSAA modes not showing up anymore is due to the application path changing after the SteamPipe conversion, meaning the NVIDIA driver application profiles don't apply anymore. Can someone try fixing up a profile manually in the NVIDIA inspector elevated settings and see if everything gets fixed then? If that's the case we'll get the profiles fixed up for a future driver.

[samukawoosh]

Somehow Portal 1 is working now for me, I didn't do anything really. The profile for all games affected by this problem is the same (hl2.exe profile) and It seems to be working...

[Blackbird88]

This is still issue. I use GTX580 and have latest drivers. I'd like to use CSAA again :(