Half-Life 2 inconsistency

[pejsaboy]

I just finished playing through Half-Life 2, and started on episode 1 yesterday. Being the first time I'd run it, I had to set all the options up to par. When I got down to the anisotropic filtering, I had options all the way up to 16x csaa whereas the original only gave me up to 6x msaa. At first I figured that it was just due to the episodes being newer, but then I had another thread going where I found out I was wrong, and my brother confirmed that he also gets 16x in the original. Any idea what the issue is? I'm more than a little annoyed that I could have been looking at better quality the whole time...

[Cheator]

Could you take a screenie of the old one?

[pejsaboy]

The old half life, as opposed to ep1? If that's what you're getting at I'll handle it when I get home. I'll take a shot in ep1 as well for comparison sake.

[pejsaboy]

Ok, here's one of the options tab in hl2

http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn455/pejsaboy/game%20shots/hl2_options.jpg

here's one of Barney and some background in hl2

http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn455/pejsaboy/game%20shots/hl2_6x.jpg

And here's one of Alyx and some background in ep1. Dark area, but that's as far as I've gotten.

http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn455/pejsaboy/game%20shots/ep1_16x.jpg

pretty jaggy in the second picture, but I can't imagine what it would look like with no AA at all.

[pejsaboy]

Oh, and since I see it commonly that the problem with HL2 is fixed by re-installing, I tried that. It didn't give me any new options. Also, hunting around the hl2 section on the steampowered forums doesn't find anything. closest thing I saw was that some people couldn't use 6x with their 8800gtx, but 4x worked just fine. Not even a mention of 16x...