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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Orange Box comming to the Wii?

fazz on 06 April 2008
ssj12 said:
fazz said:
ssj12 said:
Chrizum said:
leo-j said:
Chrizum said:
leo-j said:
Onimusha12 said:
Leo-J, do a little homework before posting please, it will spare us all some greif.

No you get your head out of your fanboy world, and tell yourself the wii cannot run PS360 games.



Half-Life 2 isn't a PS360 game, it's a 4 year old PC game that runs extremely well on a Pentium 4 with a Geforce 2 and 256MB RAM. Wii can easily run it. Not at the same resolution as the PS360 obviously, but it can still easily run it. End of discussion.

The wii can run the game at XBOX settings, but not at its Current ORANGE BOX graphics.


*sigh I guess you're just too young to make valid points regarding this issue.


There IS NO Orange Box graphics. Orange Box for PS360 is a PORT from the PC version. The PC has no preprogrammed graphics, they are SCALABLE. You know, you can change the resolution, shaders, shadow detail, everything. Half-Life 2 on Orange Box looks exactly the same as Half-Life 2 four years ago.

The PS360 version can't run on the Wii obviously, but since The Orange Box is a PC game, with scalable graphics, it can easily run on the Wii. and yes, it would be around Xbox level (a little prettier with better performance probably with some effort).

You understand now?


that is true for HL2 and the Wii MIGHT be able to run Episode 1 but there is no way in hell it can run episode 2, TF2, Portal. The source engine had a minor upgrade that didnt effect hardware requirements between HL2 and EP1 and a massive upgrade between EP1 and Ep2.

HL2 PC specs:

Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

HL2: Lost Coast:

Minimum: Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD 2800+ Processor, 1GB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

EP1:

Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

EP2/Portal/TF2:

Minimum: 1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8 level Graphics Card, Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

looking at this HL2 is possible on the Wii, Ep2 is not.

btw The Orange Box has a different SDK base then previous HL2 games too so I wil side with Leo and say there are "Orange Box Graphics" per se.


But you'll see my dorogoy ssj12, we could argue that the console versions of Orange Box don't run at max settings, because they have much, much less RAM than the recommended settings.

Everything is up to optimization my friend. I made Episode 2 run at very high settings on a friend's single core 1.8Ghz, 640MB RAM and GeForce 6200 AGP PC at around 25-ish fps @ 1024x768 thanks to it.


err thats minimum settings... and it would run corerctly at 40 - 60fps if you set it to 800x600 or 680x480


Sure thing, but we are doing it for the eye-candy aren't we? What I mean is this: with proper optimization it's possible. Why Orange Box ran worse on PS3, despite that the platform is more powerful than the 360? Lack of optimization. Remember that the Wii is locked 848x480 right now. With the lower resolution you eliminate the need of super-high resolution textures.


tastyshovelware said:
i dont think the a wii disk could hold orange box nor do i believe it could run anything except hl2 and ep1. with tf, portal, and ep2. everything (im looking at you physics) would be dumbed down to an unholy degree.

trust me, i would love to have orange box but it will never come to wii. plus, i think anyone who thinks the wii could handle portal hasn't really played it.

Yeah, like me.... oh wait! Portal is the simplest game between all of them. It's even less demanding than Half-Life 2. Also, didn't you check the audio commentary on it? Developer mentioned that they had a very simple and lightweight phsyics model to keep it running smooth even on the slowest hardware.