Half-Life 2

What works

• The entire game (gameplay and commentary), loading, saving, all that good stuff
• Game runs with or without virtual desktop and in windowed or fullscreen mode
• Hardware DirectX level automatically detected as "9.0+", which is correct
• DirectX levels 8.0, 8.1, and 9.0 all work
• On DirectX 9.0 the bloom effect works beautifully
  

What does not

• Video settings are not remembered between sessions
• Steam community does not work in-game (though it does not prevent the game from running either)
• DirectX level 9.0 is very slow. With "env WINEDEBUG=-all" it is playable, but the fastest it ever ran was around 15 FPS indoors under good conditions. It seems to average around 10 FPS, which is usable, but not enjoyable. (For comparison, DirectX level 8.1 ran at about 30-35 FPS.) I believe the problem stems from the following:
  err:d3d_surface:fb_copy_to_texture_direct Texture filtering not supported in direct blit
  fixme:d3d_texture:IWineD3DTextureImpl_PreLoad Texture (0x15fa70) has been reloaded at least 20 times due to WINED3DSAMP_SRGBTEXTURE changes on it's sampler
• From what I can tell, the game only uses one of my two cores. (From what I've heard, it should be able to use both.) It continuously reports "fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION" which makes me think the game might not be able to use my other core. (Oddly enough, though, it seems to be able to see both cores.)
  
• While I have difficulty judging this, I think HDR does not work properly. It should dynamically alter the exposure of the game based on lighting changes (like your eyes adjusting to light), but this does not seem to happen.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Hardware DirectX levels below 8.0 or above 9.0
• Game was not tested without GLSL
  

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

The game was purchased, downloaded, and played through Steam. My videocard is an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS. I would rate this app as platinum if the steam community worked in-game and if DirectX 9.0 worked at a reasonable speed.