OK, recently I managed to get Half-Life 2, which is great. But what is not great is the fact that I have these particular problems:
Performance Problems
"Get out the way you christmas snarks!"
1. First of all Half-Life 2 runs painfully slow in high-detailed/open areas. This makes it virtually impossible to survive as it is like a slide-show.
2. The sound is also being a pain in the ass, stuttering almost constantly. Another thing (whether this is meant to be or not can only be answered by people who dont have this problem) is those TV monitor screens. I cannot hear any sound coming from them at all, which seems odd since there is usually that guy talking in them etc.
3. Flashlight won't work. I think it may be something to do with lowered performance settings - which I'm not prepared to raise.
4. Steam is glitchy, buggy, crappy, s**tty. It takes ages to load anything, often 'going all funny' and it crashes EVERY time I click OK or APPLY in the advanced options menu. This means I cannot lower the detail settings in the game, which might help raise the performance of the game. I may need to find console commands that can do this.
Valve Hammer Editor Problems
1. Absolutely bugged to f**k. Errors and glitches seem to emerge in an unpredictable fashion. Sometimes the clip tool borks up, or the entity menu wont work...and so on. Very annoying.
2. Annoyingly slow performance means it would be a difficult task to map even one small room.
I will never be able to map for Half-Life 2. Ever. And think it would be pointless mapping for Half-Life 1 again. Thankyou so much Valve, you completely ruined that aspect. Bastards.
Because Valve insists that it has to load through that stupid Steam application, that complicates things, causing it to crash and what not. Hammer 3.4 was much better, rarely crashed, didn't load through *spits* Steam. And if you think for a minute I can afford all this fancy-pants new graphics gear to boost up my computer just so I can play HL2, you got another thing coming Valve. I'm sick and tired of this endless step towards photo-realism and wow-ness, it's going to cost me a friggin fortune.
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