Problems problems problems...

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.

Well, what are your computer specs?

Microsoft Windows 98
AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) processor
511MB RAM
59% system resources free
Available space on drive C: 16615MB of 43964MB (FAT32)

Hercules 3D Prophet Kyro 4500

Not to good, but jeeshus christ man, it'll do.

I think it's your graphics card if you have it on low settings.

"bugged to f**k" errors might also occur because you're not using Windows XP and are using an older version of DirectX (and have a s**tty computer), perhaps? It's hardly a new thing that the latest game doesn't work on your old PC!

cries* lol! that was an interesting post. usually not as much exitement in the hl2 editing forums though it is much like a detective story sometimes = P

In big open areas aye ? That's a CPU problem. My graphics card is
qualified to run HL2 at a decent framerate (Radeon 9600 Pro), and it
does. (50-60 Fps)

But when I get to large, open areas with lots of movement and physics
calculations, my CPU struggles (AMD 1800+XP) and my Fps drops to 15-10.

It's stupid, but that's just how it is.

Well, I sort of managed to tweak graphic settings here and there to make it run better... It does a bit, it's just pretty grim having a decent looking game looking more like spyro the dragon...

Anyway. I'm kinda pissed off really. I mean, my computer was made for me - it wasnt prebuilt, so that I could specifically ask them to make it powerful, full of memory and able to run graphic heavy games... bastards. I feel like heading over there and slapping them round the head with my copy of half-life 2.

Jahzel, Dude I love the quote on your signature!

511 Ram?

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Andrei</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>511 Ram?

</DIV></DIV>
yeah, some systems round it off. others subtract a certain amt. of shared ram.

that's just Microsoft Sysinfo rounding of the number, indeed.

Baal: Yea, it's a Bill Hicks quote - my favourite comedian of all time.

Anyway, yeah, the tweaking kinda helped a bit, it's all I can really do for now. Oh well, at least it is playable*

Hey Jahzzy Jehff, long time no see! :smile:

"I'm sorry if anyone here is Catholic. I'm not sorry you're
offended, I'm actually sorry that the fact you're Catholic"

As a nominal Catholic, I am offended, albeit nominally :razz:

I'm hoping you have some plans to remake Nexus in hl2, computer permitting. :smile:

"Are ya'll Gideons?..." - Bill Hicks

EL oH EL cAtHoLiCs R duM!!111111

Yeah sure. I will make a new Nexus! Loads more detail and all...

I find the flashlight not working a bit odd?

Nah theres quite a few people who have the same issue. Something to do with the graphic settings, I dunno.