steam has some good points and some bad points, but i quite like steam :p.
hmm, i am worried about this 25fps in half life 2 lost coast, its about the same at 1152x768 res, and it can drop to as low as 15, i am going to stick my 9600 back in later on today and hope that i get almost 0 fps and that everyhting looks crap becouse HDR is not supported.
i will have to take some screenshots of lost coast whilst i am in this church thing, when i smash the windows, the light really does look sooo realistic.
even the flash light looks better :p.
i have when games start using this new HDR performance will go up, at the moment its only a technology showcase, so i am hoping it will be improved for future games, in the system requirements they should of put, reccomended card to use: 7800GT or GTX, becouse i dont even think the x800,s and 9800,s are up to much with this HDR, i think that 6800’s will do better in half life 2 lost coast than X800’s will.
hopefully there will be some benchmarks out somewere :\
if this HDR could be used in half life 2, then it would look amazing.
From time of this post, i will be posting about 5 screenshots in about 25 mins
Here are the screenies, as you can see on the first picture, one in the chapel, there is some sort of glitch, on the right you can see those officers or whatever they are, but there just stud still, this happend all over, and you can walk right through them.
also, on the last picture (thats were i am stuck) after he has finished talking, no matter were you go, the screen starts fading black and returns you back to the menu, i dont know if this is all that there is on half life 2 lost coast, but i cant seem to do anyhtign to stop it from fading, i suppose thats it, as its only a technology showcase, a preview of what this HDR does, so i suppose, i have finished half life 2 lost coast 
if i put invincible cheat in, i can swim across to those factory things, and its glitch land, you can go under everyhting lol.
the good thing about lost coast is, that the light changes from time to time as if there is clouds going over the sun.
on thr last image, thats when it just came up from the load screen, and its like a camera adjusting the lense so there is less of a glare, and the light gets dimmer.
Also, these 5 new pictures were took whilst i had AAA enabled 
