Stealth Radeon® owners with Half-Life® 2
vouchers can join the Counter-Strike™: Source™ beta test
On August 18, 2004
Valve began the beta test of Counter-Strike™:
Source™ through the Steam service. As one of the most anticipated
games in years, a select group of gamers will have access to
beta test the next iteration of the world's most popular online
action game.
Owners of Counter-Strike™: Condition Zero™ and customers
who received a Half-Life® 2 coupon with their purchase of
a Radeon® 9600 or Radeon® 9800 product
are being offered the chance to join the beta test. Coupon holders
can visit www.steampowered.com to
activate their Steam account and enable them to join the Counter-Strike™:
Source™ beta.
The original Counter-Strike™ is the world’s most
popular online action game. Using the Source™ (Half-Life®
2) game engine, Counter-Strike™:
Source™ features realistic graphics, improved gameplay,
and an incredibly responsive physics simulation system.
With Counter-Strike™: Source™ and Half-Life® 2,
gamers will best experience the benefits of advanced DirectX®
9 graphics
when rendered on a Radeon®-powered graphics card.
Gameplay - The Radeon® Way!
Radeon® products are designed to provide the best all-around
gaming experience!
Reviews
Radeon® products offer the fastest performance and excellent
image quality which games like Counter-Strike™ demand!
Check out the benchmark reviews:
Gamer's Depot
"
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering performance belongs to
ATI for sure, especially at the higher resolutions."
DriverHeaven
"
Surprisingly though the performance we achieved was first class.
On our test system bases round the A64 FX53, X800 Pro and 1gb
of PC3200 memory the frame rates never dropped below playable
at 1600x1200."
VR-Zone
"
The X800 based cards that we saw were able to give the best performance
at high resolutions with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
enabled, and therefore I do have confidence in saying that
the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition will be the fastest graphics
card for games based on the Source Engine, particularly Half
Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source."
Firing-Squad
"
ATI’s X800 cards clearly come out ahead in Valve’s
video stress test, as do the Radeon 9800’s over GeForce
FX."
"
Most surprising is how well older cards did, particularly those
from ATI. Those who invested in 9700 and 9800
series cards a
year ago for the original expected release date of Half-Life
2 should be quite pleased, the stress test runs excellently on
them."
Valve, Half-Life®, Counter-Strike™ and Valve Source are trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation. DirectX is
a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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