• Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    416·
    22 days ago

    Interesting. My copy of Half Life from 1998 never got an upgrade for new hardware 😞

        • missingno@fedia.io
          8·
          21 days ago

          If you try reading those patch notes they’ll tell you exactly what kinds of modern hardware some of these changes are targeted at:

          • Steam Deck optimizations
          • Improved controller support
          • Default gamma reduced since you’re probably not playing on a CRT anymore, and resolution no longer defaults to 640x480
          • Ultrawide FOV support for ultrawide monitors
          • Lowest quality settings removed since no one is running hardware that weak anymore
          • Software renderer fixed on hardware that doesn’t support 16-bit color
          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            111·
            22 days ago

            Weird, considering it came out several years after Steam Deck and it works just fine on my desktop PC…

            • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
              5·
              22 days ago

              And the games in the article would have worked just fine on the Switch 2 as well.

              • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
                18·
                22 days ago

                I mean that makes sense, considering they’re Nintendo games and it’s a Nintendo console.

        • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
          English
          62·
          22 days ago

          Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Not sure how much more upgradability you could possibly want.