Half-Life: Alyx
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Valve Corporation | |
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Release dates | |
Windows | March 23, 2020 |
Linux | May 15, 2020[1] |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 93 |
OpenCritic | 92 |
IGDB | 93 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Gestures, Point and select |
Genres | Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Eastern Europe, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi |
Series | Half-Life |
⤏ Go to series page | |
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Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm (unofficial mod) | 2018 |
Halfquake Trilogy (unofficial mod) | 2018 |
Black Mesa (unofficial remake) | 2020 |
Half-Life: Alyx | 2020 |
Half-Life: Restored (unofficial mod) | 2020 |
Half-Life: Absolute Zero (unofficial mod) | 2020 |
Warnings
- This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).
General information
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Steam |
- All versions require Steam DRM.
- The game is also bundled with Valve Index (headset only, full set, or just controllers) units indefinitely.
Essential improvements[edit]
Skip intro videos[edit]
Use -novid command line argument
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Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\cfg\[Note 1] <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\SAVE\S*\personal.cfg |
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\SAVE\S*\[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video[edit]
- This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Windowed | See Spectator window resolution. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Configuration files suggest texture filtering is being used. However, there is no in-game option that allows adjusting this setting.[2] | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | No in-game options, and always enabled by default. See Anti-aliasing (AA). | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Frame rate is capped at headset's refresh rate. [3] [4] |
Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]
Use launch parameters to adjust anti-aliasing setting.[5] |
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Disable volumetric fog[edit]
Use launch parameters to adjust volumetric fog setting.[6] |
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Disable dynamic resolution scaling[edit]
Use launch parameters to adjust resolution settings.[7] |
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Spectator window resolution[edit]
Use launch parameters to adjust the spectator window resolution.[8] |
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Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
Controller types |
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Tracked motion controllers | ||
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Button/gesture prompts | In-game prompts (such as tutorials) will change based on motion controller type, and the controller binding settings in SteamVR. |
Additional information | ||
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Haptic feedback |
Audio[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | "Master Volume", "Game", "Combat Music", and "Character Voice".[11] | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Includes options for font size, subtitle width, and subtitle speed.[11] | |
Closed captions | "Subtitles & Closed Captions" under the Subtitles options menu.[11] | |
Mute on focus lost | Only when SteamVR dashboard is opened.[12] | |
EAX support | Uses SteamAudio HRTF, DSP, and audio occlusion.[13] |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Ukrainian | ||||
Vietnamese |
VR support[edit]
- This game requires a virtual reality headset.
Headsets | Native | Notes | |
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HTC Vive | Also native Valve Index support. | ||
Oculus Rift | Through SteamVR, no native Oculus SDK support. | ||
OSVR | |||
Windows Mixed Reality | Through SteamVR. | ||
Devices | Native | Notes | |
Tracked motion controllers | See Input settings for details. | ||
Traditional controller | |||
Keyboard/Mouse | |||
Play area | Native | Notes | |
Seated | |||
Standing | |||
Room-scale |
Issues fixed[edit]
Subtitles and closed captions not working[edit]
- Subtitles and closed captions will not be displayed when the selected Steam client language is not supported by the game.
Change Steam language to a supported one[14] |
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Copy subtitle file and rename it to match the Steam client's selected language[15] |
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Right eye rendering problems on wide FOV headsets such as Pimax[edit]
Disable culling and multiview instancing through launch options[16] |
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Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 | |
Vulkan |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Linux |
Middleware[edit]
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
Enabling the console[edit]
Command line[17] |
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Change size of spectator window HUD[edit]
Use the +hlvr_spectator_hud_size xx command line argument, replacing xx with the desired value.[19]
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Increase movement speed[edit]
Use the +hlvr_continuous_normal_speed 200 +hlvr_continuous_combat_speed 200 command line arguments[20]
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Notes
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Disable weapon muzzle flashes[edit]
Use the +muzzleflash_light 0 +r_muzzleflashbrightness 0 command line arguments[21]
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System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-7500 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
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System memory (RAM) | 12 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB of VRAM |
- Total size after installation on March 23, 2020 was 68 GB.[22]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Steam News: Half-Life: Alyx - Workshop is now open - last accessed on 2020-12-27
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-25
- Looked through config files, and found a variable called "r_texturefilteringquality" in "video.txt".
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-23
- Tested using Windows Mixed Reality headset.
- ↑ Half-Life: Alyx VR performance: How to get the best settings and the smoothest experience - last accessed on 2020-03-23
- ↑ r/WindowsMR: Half-Life Alyx Blurriness - last accessed on 2020-03-29
- ↑ r/WindowsMR: Half-Life Alyx Blurriness - last accessed on 2020-03-29
- ↑ r/WindowsMR: Half-Life Alyx Blurriness - last accessed on 2020-03-29
- ↑ [{{{url}}} Why Fullscreen? I need Windowed! :: Half-Life: Alyx General Discussions] - last accessed on 2020-03-27
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-30
- Spectator window appears more cropped on a 2560x1080 monitor than gameplay videos with 16:9 aspect ratio.
- ↑ Half-Life: Alyx performance analysis (or: why low graphic settings produce a sharper image) - last accessed on 2020-06-06
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-23
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-23
- Tested by opening the SteamVR dashboard in-game.
- ↑ HalfLifeAlyxTeam comments on We're developers from the Half-Life: Alyx team. Ask us anything!
- ↑ are subtitles working? [FIXED] :: Half-Life: Alyx General Discussion - last accessed on 2020-03-27
- ↑ Half-Life Alyx: How to Fix Subtitles not working - SteamA - last accessed on 2020-03-27
- ↑ How to get Rid of Rendering Issues in Half Life Alyx WITHOUT Parallel Projection! - last accessed on 2020-07-01
- ↑ Streaming and Spectating Guide
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-04-01
- Checked by playing around with launch parameters.
- ↑ Streaming and Spectating Guide - last accessed on {{{date}}}
- ↑ Steam Community :: Guide :: Increase movement speed
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-04-01
- Found by playing around with console commands.
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-03-23
- No official storage requirements, but the Steam installation size for "Half-Life: Alyx" is approximately 68 GB.