[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[S.MULLA]

ravenholm is chapter 6 out of 14 chapters...

[sin-ergy]

No problems here. Using the 5.1 onboard soundcard :ninja:

[Tremorx]

I had the stuttering problem and for weeks (using CS:Source Beta) I could not figure out how to fix it. But eventually I figured it out! Below is the solution that helped me stop the stuttering. I have a 2 speaker setup and had the sound options set up to reflect that.

**HERE IS THE FIX**

No matter your speaker setup, set the speaker setup in options to 5.1.

After I selected that I was golden. No more stuttering. I really hope this helps a lot of you out.

[sin-ergy]

I've got the stutter problem : P It really ruins my gaming experience and I've stopped playing the game until the bug is resolved. I've been reading up on all the hl2 sites and steampowered.com and still no working solutions have been posted. Im not mad at valve for not discovering this bug, but the lack of response to the community is just not acceptable. People have been supporting this game for over 1 year now and they still let the gamers down. Where are the official support site for the game? And an official response from the devs or the support team?

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Perhaps they are trying to reproduce the error. It can be difficult.

[jiggling_john]

i find it hard to believe that valve or whoever didn't know about half of these problems before the game came out... what are they doing releasing a game full of stuttering, spluttering sound and bugs all over the place! there must be like 1 single spec out there that it runs fine on and everything else has problems!!

This is gonna be just like hl1... wait for about 8 patches to come out before its playable :(

still, it IS a great game...!

[lnmnky]

Try installing Windows 2000. It worked for me.

On XP SP2, I was getting hardware locks on my 9500pro. I would run on 640* for a few minutes, but If I spun around it crashed. It would even crash on the welcome screen of city 17. I've tried a few different drivers on XP incl Omega drivers. No luck. I thought my card was shafted.

It's working fine now on Win2k with full details and 1024* res. , I'm going to try it on a vanilla XP later. If that doesn't work I'll just ghost it back to Win2k.

BTW - Is half life 2 meant to use 350mb-400mb of Ram?

[sin-ergy]

ravenholm is chapter 6 out of 14 chapters...

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am i the only one who likes setting them headcrab zombies on fire :devil: the screams give me the chills :ninja:

[SaLiVa]

was playing some with the grav..gun  :shifty:

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Thats creative :p I had difficulty just trying to get the sentry's back on their feet :p

And I tell you it was a pain in Novaprospek, I even tried one time to hold the sentry gun with my gravity gun instead. Kept on dying though :(

There arent enough barrels! I'd love to see a map full of barrels and crates :) Crates = Good

[forster]

am i the only one who likes setting them headcrab zombies on fire  :devil:  the screams give me the chills  :ninja:

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That was too eery :x BTW, love your quote under your av.

[jiggling_john]

Try installing Windows 2000. It worked for me.

BTW - Is half life 2 meant to use 350mb-400mb of Ram?

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I've heard of a few people getting good results from win2k.. hmmm!

err, hl2 only uses about 120 meg of ram on my system...

[lnmnky]

hl2 only uses about 120 meg of ram on my system...

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It uses loads when I "attempt" to run it in XPSp2, but it crashes anyway.

Maybe I got a memory leak in my steam version. on xp.

I'll run it later on Win2k and get a ram usage.

[OrangeSoul]

where can i find half life 2 cheats

[forster]

Cheatzorz forz yourz haxorz

[BananaMan]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed by the Collectors Edition version of HL2? The t-shirt is great, and of course HL2 is tops, but Half Life Source is a joke. Same textures, physics only available for ragdoll, etc. The supplied strategy guide/making of HL2 book is teeny as it only contains excerpts from the most useless parts of each book. Bah.

[forster]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed by the Collectors Edition version of HL2? The t-shirt is great, and of course HL2 is tops, but Half Life Source is a joke. Same textures, physics only available for ragdoll, etc. The supplied strategy guide/making of HL2 book is teeny as it only contains excerpts from the most useless parts of each book. Bah.

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Having only recently done a personal comparison between HL & HLS, I have to say that the textures have been worked on quite a bit. No mega improvement ala CS/CS:S, but still better than the original.

[Kupo-Cheer]

Well anyway, add me to the list of people that beat HL2.

[Emohawk]

HL2 uses about 200meg of my ram.

No stuttering at all.

XP Pro with SP2

AMD XP 300+ @2.1Ghz

1.5gig DDR PC2700

gForce FX 5200.

[MrXBob]

my friend completed the game last night and he said the blue antigravity gun is near the end of the game.

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I completed the game last night also, and that is NOT the blue antigravity gun. It's your normal "orange" one that got shocked to hell when they were taking your weapons away from you. It does nothing like what the E3 phsycannon did, which is what this thread implies.

[forster]

People who dont want the game spoiled for them, shouldnt click on a thread entitled 'HL2 ending question' :rolleyes:

[holgr]

People who dont want the game spoiled for them, shouldnt click on a thread entitled 'HL2 ending question' :rolleyes:

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Agreed. The title says it all, at least for the most of us :blink:

[FatCat]

I'm not sruprised milions of people are affected by this after all the game was tested only internally and all reviews were done by people who played it on valves computers :(

[Kupo-Cheer]

It was pretty funny when I killed Dr. Breen on accident while experimenting with the gun at the earlier parts of the game when you aren't supposed to have it (threw his office chair at him while he was in mid-sentence and he went flying). Man, that was pretty hilarious. Oh, and to keep this on topic more, I kinda want this code too since all I can spawn is the orange beamed one and the blue ray gun is just so uber powerful its so much fun to use.

[Art3x]

Well, I was having some slight audio troubles with my Audigy. I just went through and made sure all my audio/video drivers were up to date (they werent), now I'm cruising along with everything thing on high at 1280x1024.

Radeon 9600xt @ 555/690

Athlon +2500 @ 2.167 (more voltage I could go higher, but my heatsink is crap :yes: )

1 gig Corsair 2-3-2-6 Low latency ram @ 202

Sounblaster Audigy

I run it at high with that setup on 1280 and get really smooth play. Make sure every driver you have is updated, then start with the config stuff. I know it sounds obvious, but sometimes that's what works.

[SaLiVa]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed by the Collectors Edition version of HL2? The t-shirt is great, and of course HL2 is tops, but Half Life Source is a joke. Same textures, physics only available for ragdoll, etc. The supplied strategy guide/making of HL2 book is teeny as it only contains excerpts from the most useless parts of each book. Bah.

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I got the Silver package, and rather disappointed in Half Life: Source, at least they should've changed Barney! Dunno, Barney with the same face all the time sounds cool? I mean thats the case already.

No matter though, I heard theres a team developing something called Half Life: Black Mesa which will refurbish Half Life 1. And DoD: Source will definitely be something great to look and play.

[Kupo-Cheer]

Oh, and if you haven't figured this out already, Barney is The G-Man because the same guy voices them both: Mike Shapiro. I found that out awhile ago actually, but I was pretty shocked to hear it because they sound totally different to me.