Re: more problems
Posted by rival on Sat Sep 24th at 4:43pm 2005
i turned on steam this morning and had to update HL2, CSS, and SDK. i opened CSS to see what the newest thing was.
the only thing i was greeted with was 8 fps.
it is unplayable.
i checked the video options and found HDR was on high so i turned that off and all the options back to what they were.
again only 8 fps.
just a few days ago i got a playable 25 - 35 fps and now i cant even play it.
it is the exact same with HL2.
so can anyone suggest what is causing the problem?
my specs are:
1.7ghz pentium 4
640mb RAM
Geforce FX5200
intel mobo
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Re: more problems
Posted by Andrei on Sat Sep 24th at 5:26pm 2005
I too am having the same problems. At first I thought the game was
unable of writing the userconfig.cfg file but I was wrong. I am now
stuck at 8 glorious FPS on lockdown.
Anyone have any ideas before I slit my jugular?
my specs are:
1.8ghz AMD AthlonXP
512mb DDRx1
Geforce FX5200 128MB DDR (latest driver).
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Re: more problems
Posted by French Toast on Sat Sep 24th at 5:53pm 2005
Try re-running Steam. That update tha you're talking about, a lot
of people had trouble with it. They released another update that
fixed the errors.
My only guess.
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Re: more problems
Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Sep 24th at 6:07pm 2005
Update your video drivers as well. Maybe its that the old drivers can't handle the new HDR.
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Re: more problems
Posted by parakeet on Sat Sep 24th at 6:42pm 2005
My update borked the gameinfo.txt's T_______T i seriously dont know how to tweak those things into working again... at least i know what the problem is..
In any case , just wait it out. HDR will be beautiful when it gets kicked in motion
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Re: more problems
Posted by Forceflow on Sat Sep 24th at 9:59pm 2005
Thanks for posting this here.
I just updated steam, but I'm not touching anything until the next
update. It's so sad Valve borks up something with every update they
release.
And it's not small glitches, we're talking about a lot of people who've
paid for a game they cannot play whenever they want to. And that's just
not right. I'm not against the steam system if it really works and runs
smoothly. But it doesn't, appearently.
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Re: more problems
Posted by rival on Sat Sep 24th at 11:01pm 2005
i think i found the problem.
while going over my video options it said my hardware level was 'DirectX 9' when before it had been at 8. so i think that my ancient card trying to run source at a hardware level of DirectX 9 is what is dragging my fps down. my card never ran at it before and thats why i had playable fps.
anyone know what to do about this? (i am planning on getting a new card but money is something i dont have just now)
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Re: more problems
Posted by Saint on Sun Sep 25th at 1:10am 2005
to set your game back to directX8 use
-dxlevel 81
write it in console or in your gamestarticon
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Re: more problems
Posted by Crono on Sun Sep 25th at 6:58am 2005
? quoting Nickelplate
what's "b0rked," precious?!?!
Broken.
I know, I thought it was retarded too.
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Re: more problems
Posted by Forceflow on Sun Sep 25th at 8:12am 2005
Sorry for the language, brothers.
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Re: more problems
Posted by Crono on Sun Sep 25th at 9:15am 2005
The command is "dxlevel 80", and yes, it does exist.
Further more, the steampowered support area says that there's a good chance it will not run well if you 512MB of ram ... or less. (It goes further to recommend you clear up as much ram as possible)
I haven't tried, but I bet this is the reason why mine is crashing.
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Re: more problems
Posted by Saint on Sun Sep 25th at 12:06pm 2005
..SteamSteam.exe -console -applaunch 320 -dxlevel 81
this works definitly ![<img src=]()
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Re: more problems
Posted by rs6 on Sun Sep 25th at 1:52pm 2005
I had no problems. I booted up HL2 looked at my options they where the same, minus the HDR option. The game worked fine.
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