You must enable HDR, when using the dynamic shadow enhanced maps.Or you'll get facial animation errors with HD models. Especially the model setting must be at 'High' Remember to activate 'High Quality' graphic settings in the options dialog.You cannot play without Episode 2 content!

To play this mod, you must own Half Life 2 + Episode 1 + Episode 2 fully installed and unlocked! (= started at least once).

It's free, so don't complain: If you don't like the mod, you can delete it and play something else. It looks and sounds very different compared to vanilla HL2.

This is a graphical / music total conversion.

However this is untested and unsupported.

The LE version, the Light Edition, does not include the HD characters, new soundtracks and gameplay changes or tweaks.

This version requires a fast pc with at least 4GB of ram and a high-end grapichs card.

The 'normal' HD version, with a lot of HD textures and characters.

If you have already been updated to SteamPipe, you will need to restore the GCF files from a backup (if you have one), If you didn’t convert your game files yet, there is no problem. You need all the GCF files for Half-Life 2, Episode 1 and 2. This version of Cinematic Mod is for the old non-SteamPipe content system!

Improved automatic ironsight animations