Half-Life 2 & The Orange Box - 4K 60fps Mod For Xbox Series X - 1440p 60fps on Series S!

[@thanksbetotap]

Please, Microsoft and Valve, make this happen officially :)

[@rowanunderwood]

The delisting suggests that this will never happen.

[@RealRoboKnight]

​@@rowanunderwoodit's not being delisted though...

[@kodemasterx]

HL2 was my first Steam game back in late 2004, I replay the whole series every couple of years including the beloved Black Mesa, I really hope Valve can one day finish the story 😢

[@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807]

​@@RealRoboKnightDid you watch the video?

[@albinodino5050]

@@RealRoboKnightit was as of February of this year

[@emiloguechoons9030]

I'm unsure if you're aware, but it's actually possible to disable the Xbox One X enhancements on backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games by pressing the "Select" and "Start" buttons simultaneously while in game to open up the Xbox 360 style overlay, going all the way over to the rightmost menu, selecting "Xbox One X Settings", and then selecting the "Performance" option, this will disable the increased resolution and revert it to the original resolution, it would have been cool to see the performance of Half-Life 2 and its episodes on the Xbox One X without the resolution enhancement while keeping the 60fps mod in place

[@PMartinez527]

It's already a locked 60fps with the enhancements, what would be cool to see without them?

[@GreenSwede]

@@PMartinez527 To see the performance increase with the original resolution.

[@mrratchet]

@@PMartinez527 It wasn't on the One X but is on the Series X. Though looking at the performance of the One S and One X, it looks more like a CPU limitation so I don't think disabling One X settings would help.

[@emiloguechoons9030]

@@PMartinez527 It wasn't a locked 60fps on Xbox One X, far from it, are you confusing the Xbox One X with the Xbox Series X?

[@dalton2k538]

It may help the One X hit 60 fps more consistently actually.

[@VEN0M415]

Valve definitely needs to make an orange box for the modern systems, add in portal 2 and L4D2 and it would be an amazing game to introduce many to Valve. The 360 OB was the way I learned of Valves existence so I'm sure it can happen for others.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

You'd think they also would've done Half-life Alyx for PS VR2.

[@MightyTheWolf]

They're never going to do that lol.

[@cescoss80]

Valve don't have any interest in the fanbase.

[@karlhinkelstein6130]

This brings back memories. Man the 2000s were magical!

[@rare6499]

Early to mid 2000’s was peak gaming especially on PC IMO

[@D33PLOV3]

There is a ton of stuff you can do with console commands mapped to controller inputs using this method. Back in the day, I would spawn walls, change grav values, crit chance, and move speed in 2fort to make it a deathmatch arena. So fun!

[@glungusgongus]

You're a GOAT for saying this btw

[@infinitysynthesis]

Half Life 2 is still better than 90% of games realised these days. It's amazing. The oppressive atmosphere of City 17 and the open but lonely vista's of Highway 17 are my favourite. Not to mention Ravenholm.

[@styeiwehdeisfdo]

I'd say better than 99% of games nowadays. One of the best of all time.

[@infinitysynthesis]

@@styeiwehdeisfdo So true. It's been inspirational for so many of the games we have nowadays. I really hope this 60fps fix can become official. I would love to see Portal 2 with it to.

[@LN.2233]

nah

[@Shaun-w4c]

Half life 1 is still better than 99% of games these days.

[@reyjimenz]

Better games came out.

[@expertscav89]

Wow half life looks amazing with those upgrades vale really crafted a game that looked ahead of its time. Hopefully Microsoft and valve could work together for an update or maybe even a remaster of the orange box.

[@TheFirstRealChewy]

The graphics for The Orange Box was amazing when it launched back in the day. It would be nice to get an official update. That said, I do own a copy and still have my X360.

[@stevenm1832]

Orange box has been removed well before 2023! It was more like 8 years ago. The orange box has to be bought on the store using a computer on the Microsoft store.

[@SuperLaxative]

I have the means to do this i.e. physical copy of the orange box, xbox 360 & xbox series x but probably wouldn't due to the game save limitation. However saying that I appreciate you bringing this to Valve & Microsoft's attention. Games such as these are undoubtedly the original classics and should be preserved/enhanced where realistically possible and made available to the newer generation of gamers as I am sure they would draw as much inspiration from them as we did.

[@sixtyfps]

Thanks for spreading the word, Tom! This was news to me!

[@ThorStoneGaming]

Yeah, crazy this was known a year ago, if I had known about it I would've tried it back then.

[@Llamakingmaster7]

Don’t know who’s still reading the comment section, but I discovered something; you don’t have to boot up a “New Game” every time, all you have to do is repeat the copying of the modified User Settings from your Xbox 360 to Cloud Storage before booting up the game on your Series console. This will force the settings to sync to the cloud again and in doing so, you’ll retain the 60 FPS as you reload your save. Unfortunately, you’ll have to do this every time you fully close out of the game (barring any quick resume). This actually makes the game conventionally playable from start to finish.

[@SeeASquaRE]

A "mod" workaround built off of years of experience and tools people have created to mod Xbox 360 games working on Series X and Series S years later. This is somehow weirdly beautiful.

[@Crimsongz]

I love revisiting older games especially on PC at 4k 120+fps

[@JustFeral]

I still play the OG Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and man it's funny how high the FPS will go.

[@0Synergy]

Same, FEAR at 5120x1440 at 240fps with HDR is an experience everyone has to try.

[@MA-qu3hi]

@@0SynergyFEAR holds up so dang well. I’m so glad there wasn’t a janky pc port fps cap on it

[@TheScrubmuffin69]

​​@Agent-mb1xx my pc does 4,500+ fps at 4k, nerd.

[@0Synergy]

@@Agent-mb1xx fear gets buggy at high framerate sadly, it goes higher but I locked it at my monitors refresh rate

[@桐生一马-l6d]

The whole unlocking frame rate with archives thing I also tried on GTA Definitive Edition, going into the game on XSX and setting 60 fps (frame rate mode), then syncing the cloud archive and opening it on One X unlocked the 60 fps run, which was stable for the most part, but again, you can't change the game settings on the X1X or it automatically changes back to 30 fps. Normal game archiving is fine. So I think the cloud synchronization is between the archive and the user configuration, which hides some parameters that are not visible on the console, such as the fps settings. I found this method when GTA SA Definitive Edition just came to XGPU cloud gaming, I didn't have XSX at that time, so I clouded it and then found it after syncing the archive on OneX.

[@qb3540]

If MS could make every 360 4K/60 or 1440p/120 fps I would buy a Series X in a Heartbeat.

[@medzgb8921]

Microsoft and Valve Please make this happen officially (fan service)

[@NickLaslett]

This is a great piece of news. I do like playing HL2 from the couch with a controller, and usually have to use the PS3 version for this. A Series X option with functioning saves, would be attractive.

[@snowwsquire]

tbh you should just stream from a PC, you could get 4k 120hz that way with good textures too😊

[@xportz]

@@snowwsquiredoes it play the same with a controller on PC as it would with the X360 version?

[@snowwsquire]

@@xportz It should

[@ultrapwnd]

These should definitely get a modern re-release

[@HarithBK]

valve should make a "valve anthology" for the PS5 and XBS. it would contain all half-life games, portal games and all the multiplayer games they can bring to the new systems all rendered at 4k60fps minimum with all the extra settings they could possibly added from the PC version. it is would just be a straight port with a clear statement about the multiplayer games would not be getting any updates. the entire point would just be about getting valve games into new players hands. the thing is the multiplayer games still hold up in my eyes and i think a lot of console gamers would love a locked latest version of TF2, L4D, L4D2, DoD:S, HL2DM it would just kinda exist.

[@Spr1ggan87]

Who's the port beggars now

[@deathtrooper2048]

Valve would somehow mess it up, all of their games are half assed.

[@imnotshub]

@@deathtrooper2048 poor bait, please try again and don't half ass it

[@moxty2795]

Imagine Orange Box for Switch and PS4,PS5

[@alyx4436]

Just putting this here cos It came to mind. I was always under the impression that Valve were not making Half Life 3 because they were waiting for that technology to come along that would allow them to just create a fresh and impactful game around. Like Half-Life 2 had the physics engine and Alyx had virtual reality. Might ray tracing be that tech? We are starting to see studios use raytracing for uses other than lighting and reflections, so I feel Valve could do something crazy once like 4080 or 90 tier RT acceleration is like the norm.

[@paullucci]

You're absolutely correct re: Half-Life pushing new tech and experiences. I'm not sure if graphical fidelity is enough of a leap for Valve to commit. I think that's why the newest HL game we have is Alyx. Since Alyx, my thought is that it would take the next level of physics/material interaction, VR adoption, or even possibly some sort of social aspect (or faked social aspect via AI; an advanced version of Alyx as a companion, for example) to make Valve want to push forward with a HL3. That said, if the game had these elements, I'm sure ray or path tracing would be part of the package.

[@alyx4436]

@@paullucci Yeah well my theory kind of came from a couple of use cases of RT. In Spiderman 2, Insomniac used RT to generate 3D interiors for the buildings. Also, we have had examples of ray traced audio. I am just thinking that with more powerful RT acceleration at out disposal, I could see Valve using this to create something that seeps over into the gameplay and design. On its surface, the physics in HL2 serve an aesthetic purpose (things look good when they move) but they were able to implement it into the gameplay via the Gravity Gun and certain scenarios. So yeah I could see them coming up with some kind of unforseen gameplay implementation with RT for Half-Life 3.

[@theobserver4214]

⁠​⁠@@alyx4436With the incoming Zen 5 + Arrow Lake CPUs and RTX 50/RDNA 4 GPUs + APIs like DirectStorage, Valve has ample resources to create a Half-Life game fully pushing the potential of raytracing and AI acceleration.

[@SpookySkellyGurl]

It's worth notng that the One X supports VRR, so it still might be worth doing this on that console if you have a VRR display.

[@rabbitenjoyer6320]

Very cool, thanks for looking back at unlocked performance on the 360! Makes you wonder if optimized settings could have bridged the gap to 60 fps

[@3V1L5H0073R]

maaan could you imagine an orange box for any other game company today?

[@63alkash]

3 parts each one for 40 bucks or grab your season pass just for 99,99and have them all! Plus, you can pay 120 and play one week before the official launch

[@johnconnorpliskin7184]

The closest thing we have is MCC. Despite how good it is now the original launch left a lot to be desired.

[@Blownkingg]

@@johnconnorpliskin7184 and mass effect legendary edition. The remaster included all previous games and DLC for the price of one.

[@JeremyForTheWin]

a Supergiant box would be awesome

[@corey2232]

@@johnconnorpliskin7184 Yeah, but they did way more than just smooth out issues from launch. So much content was added, including entirely new games to the collection. Halo ODST (plus 100 achievements), the Spartan Ops episodes from Halo 4, a PC version & crossplay, etc. etc. etc. They even programmed back in the OG glitches from the Halo 2 campaign to help speedrunners, and just made the overall package filled with additional Halo content. Considering how other games like Cyberpunk & No Man's Sky get praised for what they became, MCC should get the same kind of credit.

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

Kinda disappointed that Tom didn't cover TF2 here, though I assume it was due to time constraints. Either that or TF2's cfg file lacks key command lines needed to unlock the framerate, likely to prevent cheating.

[@DigitalFoundry]

TF2 works as well, but we had to contain the scale of the project somehow.

[@GreenSwede]

@@DigitalFoundry Also worth pointing out, assuming you only tested TF2 on Xbox in a local LAN match, that it has some client-side lag issues when fps is set to 60 if you're *not* the host. I have tested it before previously and the viewmodel animations as well as the camera suffers from stutters, so if Valve and Microsoft were to ever consider an official fix for 60 fps then they really should keep TF2 at 30 fps.

[@sickSNIPE316]

@@GreenSwede If I'm host, will the other players be ok?

[@GreenSwede]

@@sickSNIPE316 Yes other players who'll be set to default 30 fps should be fine as far as I know

[@gtbr24]

That sync of the snare drum with the shotgun at 1:04 🤌

[@Tangible_D]

As HL3 is likely to never appear, I'd love a remake of the first two games.

[@Soup-man]

For Half-Life 1, a fan remake called Black Mesa exists on PC. It's pretty cool. I recommend playing it

[@RARufus]

I second Black Mesa as an excellent remake of HL1. I played HL1 a lot back in the day and Black Mesa is such a great, more modern take, on it. I played HL2 even more when it came out and it still holds up today.

[@Soup-man]

Also, Half-Life 2 RTX is coming out soon. It's similar to Portal RTX if you've heard of that

[@NightWanderer31415]

Black Mesa is a remake of HL1

[@ThePreciseClimber]

@@Soup-man A PS5 port of Black Mesa would be neat.

[@sickSNIPE316]

Yes! Many of us still prefer TF2 on 360 but 30fps is hard to deal with, this is a game-changer!

[@GreenSwede]

TF2 at 60 fps on consoles will cause frustrating weird stutters if you're playing in online matches, though it looks fine if you're the host yourself.

[@sickSNIPE316]

@@GreenSwede Interesting, I'll have to check it out and decide from there.

[@Hybred]

For Xbox One X I recommend capping it to 40fps, its stable throughout the game and feels much better than 30fps

[@PenceFamilyGaming]

It is amazing to me, that upping the FPS and resolution is as simple as some config files yet companies don't do it. They would rather sell a "remastered" version for $60.

[@Megaspartan23]

It would be interesting to see Valve remaster The orange box for Xbox series X and PS5.

[@3dmarth]

Very cool as a novelty, and it's neat to see that this is done in the save file itself! Unfortunate about all the caveats (including the delisting), but at least the entire Orange Box's contents go for what, $5 on PC?

[@crithon]

Recently I have replayed through Orange Box on a PS3 and compared it with a PC.... of course the port isn't handled by Valve themselves, but it's interesting how many problems it has that makes it unique. I'd argue portal has the most flaws as a port, but you can still tolerate it. It's always worth replaying those games, they are exceptional.

[@kalhamm3r]

I simply do NOT UNDERSTAND why these companies don't release these games with all of these incredible boosts and features. I would re-release it and include all the frames / resolution support, it's basically free money they have already developed the game. Makes no sense.

[@0xybelis]

Testing such ugrades is expensive.

[@kalhamm3r]

@@0xybelis Bro they literally changed a few lines of text in a save file, and they did it. There is really no testing needed LMAOO

[@IgnatiusAlpha]

The Orange Box was a magical release when it came out. The Half-Life 2 episodes, vanilla TF2, and playing Portal for the first time. Just an amazing experience.

[@pobbityboppity1110]

So cool to see the unlocked performance across the whole Xbox family.

[@railpao]

Pausing after the 0:15 mark just to write this : this intro music was quite smooth !

[@AlkoPRO11]

Digital Foundry + Half-Life = 🧡

[@richardhunter9779]

This is a fun hack. However, pretty much everyone has a PC that can run this at 4K60 if they connected it to their TV. The Steam version has full controller support and everything.

[@LutraLovegood]

4k120 even. You could get that kind of framerate with a 260X and now we have iGPUs that can do better than that.

[@MondySpartan]

Valve should make a new Orange Box, an expanded collection containing their entire back catalog including the GoldSrc ones, and release it for PS5 and Xbox Series.

[@johannessiipola1267]

I don't think Half-Life 2 looks particularly good in 4K without any texture or model enhancements because it was released in 2004 when 1024x768 was a common resolution. The artwork is simply not designed for a resolution this high. The 60 FPS is a much bigger update and much appreciated in my opinion.

[@deathtrooper2048]

The 4k resolution would super sample the picture so on a 720p screen it would look great.

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

The only thing i'm sure of is there's never gonna be a SteamDeck3

[@homebrewGT2]

Oh man I hope they do this officially, would play Half Life 2 in a heartbeat

[@skeletino420]

bangin opening tune choice

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

Just seeing some pristine native locked 4K/60 gaming on a current-gen console in December 2023 is a nice change of pace. Also, as a recent member of the OLED master race having watched this on my C3 the game(s) look so much better than I remember. I really hope Valve does a proper update for Series owners.

[@iceman78772]

I wonder if you could add MSAA by adding mat_antialias 4 to the cfg to fix the pixel crawl. AFAIK the console port's software AA doesn't work on the PC version, so it'd be interesting to see if PC's hardware AA does on console.

[@Mrvideosandgames]

While not explicitly stated, it's suggested they may have tried that. 5:32

[@iceman78772]

​​@@Mrvideosandgamesderp, don't know how I didn't catch that. I'll have to look at the .ekv files controlling the graphics options to check if I even said the right command. Half Life 2 on 360 actually has a button cheat code to disable AA that could be overriding it, but I'm just rambling since I don't have a copy to test.

[@shadowmen11]

For xbox one/x consoles you can switch between 4k and 720p resolution, by opening xbox 360 dashboard ingame. Same situation like in Final Fantasy XIII. I think you should give it a try and see results for yourselfs. :)

[@GhostGamer799]

Microsoft should ask valve to port the orange box and black mesia to xbox series console it will be a number 1 sold

[@coaltrain2299]

Black Mesa isn't valves, you'd need them to ask that dev team too

[@GhostGamer799]

@@coaltrain2299 I'm sure the people behind black mesa will not have problems with it

[@hellorandomperson221]

Just become an adult and get a PC instead of portbegging for scraps. This stoneage game runs at 4K 120fps on any toaster from 15/16 years ago. It's time to stop being pathetic, consoles are for little kids, adults get a PC and leave childish things behind.

[@GhostGamer799]

@@hellorandomperson221 okay if you live 3rd world country and pc parts are expensive then tell me console are for children

[@Ast0sH]

Can't wait for the "The Finals" and the "Avatar" reviews. I have some performance problems on my series X and ps5 but not on my pc so i don't think its server related.

[@kennypowers1945]

Depends what pc you got lol. Most pc gamers according to steam can’t even run those games with 1080p 60fps graphics so you have some nice hardware

[@Ast0sH]

@@kennypowers1945 i mean i have a 4080/7700 pc but its really to remove the server side of the problem and be sure it's either and io or a gpu/cpu problem on consoles. Also i know a lot of people think a pc is just better than a console and in many way its true but pc is also very wonky and enthusiasts focus for the best case. Games like Ori and the will of the whisps at 4k120 on my series on dolby vision provide me a better experience than any pc could. So yeah i will play Avatar on my ps5 even if i couldn't reach the image quality and framerate of my pc just because its more convenient

[@RetroProg]

HL2 is now 20 years old. It's fair to say we haven't had quite the jump that 1984 -2004 gave us.......

[@millrrs]

I played HL2 for the first time on the original Xbox. Thanks Tom, now I feeling old. Good job btw. I would ask Valve to priorize Left 4 Dead 2 on modern machines asap.

[@mcall9800]

In TF2, there is a render scale command. I wonder if you could add that and bump the resolution if it exists in the other source games to get a sort of anti aliasing effect.

[@mcall9800]

Just checked, nope that was added on a TF2 update unfortunately.

[@handymanshandle]

@@mcall9800 More importantly, mat_viewportscale only goes up to 1.0; it can't be used for supersampling, only for upscaling a lower resolution base image.

[@davitsk1]

Nice timing. I just replayed them on PC at 2k@240hz/fps.

[@GaminylGames]

Poor Tom and Ollie's videos always get so spoiled on the podcast lol Interesting video! I see absolutely no reason to do this but suoer cool that you can

[@lyndaforbes6311]

Wonderful! Thanks Tom!

[@Samurasa.]

0:00 Path of borealis

[@RealRogerFK]

I mean... If all it takes for Valve is "fps_max 0" and Xbox users are happy...

[@comyxcon4gaming860]

I've got the PC version of Half-Life 2 and Portal 1 and 2; now it's time to revisit it on XSX.

[@NoFairiesAllowed]

Orange box would sell crazy in todays age

[@kennypowers1945]

This is why I prefer the Xbox over PlayStation, TONS of backwards compatibility and I have access to stuff I got over a decade ago on the Xbox store. Can’t say the same for anything Sony, and before you say pc, no I don’t want one or ever will lol

[@De_kaid]

Microsoft def has a big lead over Sony here, but it's not that great of a backwards compatible upgrade showcase when they need to use the xbox 360 to edit the savefile though, is it?

[@Spr1ggan87]

Still poor compared to the PC catalogue of old games

[@Gabriel-ly3yn]

@@Spr1ggan87 yes, and how many of those old games works out of the box really ? most of them don't even boot and you have to finish the code yourself or install so weird fan patch lmao. You can easily end up spending more time try to boot the game than playing it really. At least console backward compatibility just works

[@BlastinRope]

Mind blower: more time has passed between now and the orange box release than between the orange box release and the construction of the pyramids.

[@90lancaster]

If they don;t plan to re release a remaster for consoles then making it available to buy again would be nice.. though I suspect they'd bump the price up if they did.

[@rodolfovaliati]

Cinematic mod.

[@GameSpirit1]

This mod goes like this : - Series X "Sorry you are not allowed to run this game at 60fps" - You "But Xbox 360 said I could ! Look at this savefile !" - Series X "Oh ! ...Okay."

[@codyisrude]

Lets see in five years from now how this video holds up

[@a.s.cirillo6785]

Still one of the best games ever

[@melxb]

after rtx remix i can't go back to these visuals

[@cosbusta]

I wouldn't mind an official re-release for all consoles. I must have finished it dozens of times on PC, but I'd still jump on the chance to replay it and get the platinum trophy. Though I imagine Valve doesn't really care these days.

[@ZombieZMB]

Oh wow I remember using Horizon. My brother and I used it to mess around with mod menus in Cod WaW zombies and creating totally busted weapons in borderlands 2. Surprised to see its still around.

[@V3ntilator]

I recently installed Half-Life 2 on my Lenovo Go PC Handheld as i plan to complete it for the first time.

[@SlyFunkyMonk]

I wonder if any other games, or PC ports allow for these changes, particularly some of those games that did get back compat, but may still look a lil fuzzy on SX.

[@WednesdayMan]

if V-sync were turned off, would it be possible to Half-Life 2 above 60fps or would it just be running the game in 60hz reducing the benefit of turning off v-sync?

[@deathtrooper2048]

I know that the 360 emulator has its own vsync on by default so I doubt it.

[@RandoOnline_]

We need the Orange Box on Switch!!!

[@hugthemonkey]

Well done Tom 😊

[@evansullivan18]

I was able to buy The Orange Box on the xbox 360 marketplace site earlier this year. Now it seems that only a demo is available. I wonder if this fix would work on the demo?

[@tailsfan465]

I remember doing this to the xbox 360 version using a modified config like this, It was fun because I could see that the xbox 360 could in fact, get a pretty good framerate for HL2! I'm surprised that the config file was so incredibly easy to edit.

[@matt4193]

Shootouts to f4mi

[@Renk1]

Very interesting, thank you for the video! Does this mod affect achievements at all, do they still unlock normally? I actually sold my copy of Orange Box on the 360 years ago, but now I'm inclined to buy it back, as I do have a Xbox 360 still hooked up in my game room, next to the Xbox Series X.

[@GreenSwede]

This will not affect achievements

[@foxhound773]

I still have my physical copy of the game for the 360. Please Microsoft/Valve..give us an fps boost🙏

[@Valshiirs]

On 7900XT I am getting 200+ FPS @8k in Ep2. I do not know how an older version of Source behaves on modern consoles, but I think with reasonable development time HL2+Eps should be able to run 4k120 on Series X. Maybe Valve will do something for the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 next year.

[@LutraLovegood]

If my old 260X was able to hit 4k 120fps there's no reason a Series X couldn't reach that. Heck, it even managed a mostly stable 300 fps. Wonder why it's not even hitting a consistent 60 fps.

[@Eepy-Rose]

It's fun that you can play Half-Life 2 on every Xbox. Let's just say the frame rate and resolution has come a long way since that original Xbox port lmao

[@Lackesis]

On PC you can play these games at 8K+SK HDR+200 FPS, it is gorgeous.

[@rocstarang5747]

The 360 actually held up pretty well. All it needs is a VRR mod 😏

[@amnril]

I’m not an Xbox owner but that’s pretty cool.

[@HurricaneGregor]

As great as this is, it does illustrate the benefits of PC gaming. Unlocked framerate/resolution plus easy mod support. For example, HL2 VR mode which is amazing.

[@djayjp]

Mod is published Oct 2022. Orange Box is pulled Feb 2023... 🤔

[@Zenzuu]

A remastered version of all Half Life games & Orange Box collection needs to come to PS5.

[@NewsanceInHD]

I still have my original disk for Xbox and it still works

[@DandyDNA]

9:11 "Even running at 720p native there are drops under" Real missed opportunity to test the game running in 480i 4:3

[@techsamurai11]

This game demands a remake!

[@Carboxylated]

I just don't understand why we can't get an unlocked fps or even a locked 120 fps...its egregious to say the least that valve has simply left this game in the dust. I recently replayed it on my series X with physical disc and it was still fun but I always commented to myself..."What am I doing? I have the same game on my PC that runs at 230+ fps 1440p?!?" I just wanted to try it I guess. Either way we need a full revision of this with increased fidelity and unlocked FPS for consoles...this game runs on potato PC's at higher than 60fps. Please VALVE for the love of the Freeman, re-release this game.

[@JittikMieger]

Gabe? Gabe!? Gabe!!? We need you!

[@IcedEarth1231]

Surprised you didn't see how Xbox One X performance mode works as opposed to the default "graphics" 4k mode.

[@absolutelyminty7452]

What does the performance mode do on the one X for orange box?

[@IcedEarth1231]

@@absolutelyminty7452 As far as I know it makes the game run at native resolution as opposed to 4k, without "Xbox One X enhancements." Idk how 360 games work on newer Xbox consoles but performance mode might help if the emulation is gpu bound.

[@neilwilson5785]

I reckon the Oppenheimer producers had played this game.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

it's a shame Series S doesn't have 4K, it could come really nicely for these older games that can easily run at high resolutions and FPS in modern hardware, in fact, both should be perfectly able to even do 4K120, but I guess 120 can't be done because they're running through backwards compatibility

[@BuggedGaming]

I find it weird Microsoft gave a LOT of attention to the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy and not something like the Orange Box.

[@deathtrooper2048]

Probably cauae Valve wants nothing to do with this.

[@corrion1]

pretty scary that they can just remove it from the store and destroy a potential whole generation from experiencing Halflife 2

[@pariah87]

This reminds me of users modding RDR2 for PS4 to run 60fps on the PS5

[@kevinbuchanan67]

I've played all these in vr and they are the best vr games. Vr developers should stop designing games for vr... instead, they should make great games first