[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[OrangeSoul]

third person view of half life. you cant use the gun or see straight, only sideways

[Varsity]

Edit: actually, that's nonesense.

[Harsesis]

Is there anything to unlock? I've finished the game on hard but I don't see anything?

[Varsity]

There's no unlockables, save the chapter buttons in New Game.

[Terrigamer]

third person view of half life. you cant use the gun or see straight, only sideways

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cam_idealyaw 0

[Liquid]

I just got bug bait. its awesome!

[eth3l]

the gravity gun + radial arm saw blade is the best video game weapon EVER

[Mambo Boy]

OK so i have a Geforce FX5900 graphics card, which I KNOW is made for directx9...why on earth is HL2 saying my hardware dx level is 8.1?

I have the 66.77 drivers installed as the latest ones just blue screen my computer when I play HL2 :(

Edited November 20, 2004 by Mambo Boy

[shakey]

with heapsize, ive always used 364000 even though i only have 512. and when i alt tab and check the size in task manager, it says its only using 140000....

also, i took 1052 screenshots, u can view them here by dling the rar. http://hl2images.filefeeder.com/

[nX07]

I am really not sure anymore what this blue gravity gun is. I kept getting stuck at this white screen in the "Our Benifactors" once I get into that little human pod thing. I left it for 20 minutes, it just stayed white. It would randomly flash the place I was stuck at for a second and go away again, the sounds were still active but nothing on the screen.

Anyway, I decided to just load the Last level (Chapt. 14) and such and such happens. I then use impulse 101 after after such and such leaves and I have the that orange gun but just with a blue beam.

I dont think this is it, it can't be. People who saying it was like the E3 Demo where they could lift up the bodies and so foruth, swing things around, etc. etc.

Is it? :(

[ReAnimation]

OK so i have a Geforce FX5900 graphics card, which I KNOW is made for directx9...why on earth is HL2 saying my hardware dx level is 8.1?

I have the 66.11 drivers installed as the latest ones just blue screen my computer when I play HL2 :(

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Geforce FX's don't have enough horsepower to run the dx9 path for half-life 2, so half-life2 uses the dx8.1 path instead.

You may be able to force it to use dx9, but expect a performance hit.

[Varsity]

Haha, I'm playing through the coast again. Now I'm sort of used to the environments I can really make use of physics. I love the little shacks they've got because you can approach them from any angle, at any pace, or even not at all. It's a violent bliss. :)

[nekrosoft13]

why are they using miles sound system!!!

it would be better if they would support eax, i never had any stuttering with eax.

[nekrosoft13]

I haven't beaten it, only because I find the game boring as hell. I also don't like Counter-Strike, if that means anything.

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i beat hl1, but i agree it was boring. and cs is bad too

[Twisted.Raven]

Ok, i'm stuck in Ravenholm

Pic

there is a lever in the building i'm pointing to, but i dont know how to get across to it?

[jerry]

Stuck again :cry:

[lnmnky]

This is weird.

I couldn't get HL2 to run, so I tried installing it succesfully on windows 2000. It's works great using the same drivers that are on the ATI now. So I made a ghost copy of it just incase.

I then used a ghost copy of XPSP2 that previously failed to run HL2, and stripped out all the stuff I had installed. Installed the omega drivers, got rid of them and now use the same drivers that are on the ATi now. Got rid of my virus scanners, and dot net, AND IT WORKS.

Weird, but now if I reinstall the drivers it fails. so I've gone back to the ghost copy that works, reinstalled all my programs, virus scanner etc, and it's working fine.

Now, If i ever need to reinstall the video drivers, I'm going to be shafted. I've no idea what's so special about these drivers and setup I'm using now. I can't recreate it without it failing.

anyway, I'm going back to trap town.

[nX07]

Stuck again :cry:

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You need to get up in that window where the wire is coming from to turn off the power switch. Then, you can climb up that lader near the dead guy on the fence.

I forgot how I got up in the window though.. someone can help you on that though im sure.

Good luck! :D

[grid001]

hey guys, any of you having problems adding Friends to the Steam list?

i've tried adding my friend again and again, but for some reason, it keeps saying there is no such person.

i've tried email, username, and name.

FRIG!!!!! :angry:

[Liquid]

OK im lost, what do I do here? :wacko:

SPOILERS MAYBE

[OrangeSoul]

follow the spiders

[empty]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281

check it out, great comparisson of various dx modes and gfx cards. cant believe a geforce4mx does so well!

[Liquid]

follow the spiders

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what spiders :s The Ant Lions? Because they are just stting here looking at me.

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what spiders :s  The Ant Lions?  Because they are just stting here looking at me.

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Look to your right :rolleyes:

[Liquid]

nvm, figured it out