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Posted By: Forged Posted On: Jun 13, 2005 Views: 2638	Ooops.. Sorry, to clear things up, I extracted the gcf's, and moved the GCF's to another place so the game would use the extracted versions instead. Also, I am running 1280x1024x32, full detail levels, 16x anistropic, 6x aa, and reflect all. Sorry.
Posted By: Forged Posted On: Jun 13, 2005 Views: 2533	I know what causes the stutter Apparently Valve's routines are ****. I had a hunch, and I COMPLETELY cured my stutter issues ... for a while. You see, the stutter occurs because the game is extracting files from the .gcf files, and apparently under very intense sessions of this, the game is too stupid to be able to concentrate on anything else while this happens. The result is massive hard drive activity, which causes the game to lock while it does this, which freezes the video for a time, and the sound stutters while trying to keep pace with the video, which isn't moving, so it keeps backing up, hoping to resynchronize. To fix this issue, I simply extracted all the gcf files, and moved the files to another of my hard drives so the game wouldn't find it. It worked BEAUTIFULLY! I managed to get all the files in the right locations, except at first it wouldn't run, because I had a folder with some .cfg's in the wrong place. Once I moved that folder back to the root steam folder, it worked. This COMPLETELY alleviated my stutter problems, (which before I did this were quite severe), and I was playing for some time, and it was BEAUTIFUL! Suddenly this game was FUN! So I played for a few hours with no stutter, then I quit and left my computer. The next day, I went to play, and the stutter was back! I figured it was because it was a new level, and maybe I missed some files or something (I said before, I extracted all the gcf's, well I didnt do the cs shared one because I didnt figure I'd need it), like maybe the gcf I didnt extract had some files on it or something.. Turns out, this was not the case. I looked, and the gcf's were back. Steam found that the gcf's weren't there, and redownloaded them secretly. Steam redownloaded the game files, but for a while I was experiencing ZERO stutter, simply by extracting the files! I am going to give this another go, and this time do all the gcf files, and find out where the files are supposed to go, and I'm going to tell steam to not keep hl2 up to date. I think this should solve the issue. I am not using any commandline or console commands that people have reported to 'speed up' the game or anything, and I don't even have a top of the line system. I get very high framerates, although I haven't had it tested, it is super smooth. If someone wants to help me figure out where all the folders in the gcf's are supposed to go for the game to find them, this would be appreciated. I guarantee this method to work for you. Athlon 2800+ (barton) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb Asus NForce2Ultra A7N8X v2.0 Onboard Nforce audio Windows XP SP2 512mb Corsiar Dual Channel PC3200 400gb Seagate SATA1.5gb/s 7200rpm 8mb cache 120gb WD UDMA100 7200rpm 8mb cache 60gb Maxtor UDMA100 7200rpm 8mb cache 20.5gb WD UDMA66 7200rpm 8mb cache
Posted By: safsa Posted On: Jun 7, 2005 Views: 1797	fix adding "+snd_async_prefetch_priority 1" to your launch options help a lot
Posted By: Chris Posted On: Jun 5, 2005 Views: 1699	WTF Andy. I like how Andy ruined the ending for everyone that reads this forum. Good job noob.
Posted By: ShaunC Posted On: Apr 22, 2005 Views: 2542	How annoying... It's really weird how they only show up after a load point in a level. Right after it's done loading the framerate and sounds just get choppy. It's also funny how consistent the choppyness is... such a steady, consistent hackeyness... I personally didn't have this problem until recently, I am now on chapter 10 and it first occured in the beginning of the Black Mesa East level. I have been playing around with BIOS settings and overclocking a lot lately though, maybe that has something to do with it... My system: Watercooled Pentium 4 Prescott @ 3.54ghz ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe w/ watercooled Northbridge 1G Dual-Channel Patriot Systems DDR400/PC3200 2 36G WD Raptor 10000rpm in RAID-0 ATi Radeon X800 Pro Creative Audigy 2 NX
Posted By: Andy Posted On: Apr 13, 2005 Views: 2588	No stutter Works fine on my new PC: AMD 4000+, 1GB, 6800U. 1600x1200 max settings with reflect world. I get occasional clicks on the sound when displaying a complex scene with lots of reflections - but other than that it runs very smooth. Excellent game BTW. The last level had me gobsmacked. Love the Gman ending (although why is Breme running away? - seems pretty dum with all the resources of the citadel at his disposal) You could argue that, taken individually, the levels are not as good as comparable levels in FarCry (eg. Water Hazzard is not as good as the FarCry's Southern Comfort level - and the Buggy levels can't beat FarCry's Jeep and Buggy (and hang-glider!). But FarCry had some dodgey levels which let the side down - whereas Halflife's levels are consistantly good - so they add up to a better game overall.
Posted By: orbach Posted On: Apr 11, 2005 Views: 2592	disk DMA mode Verify your disks are running with DMA enabled. There is a bug (feature?) in windowz that reverts disks to PIO mode after 6(?) disk errors. I found my drive set to PIO mode even it was set to allow DMA. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472
Posted By: Ranjit Posted On: Apr 10, 2005 Views: 1907	It doesnt stutter for me. Half life 2 has never stuttered for me. I have seen it stutter on my friends pc when I played it and it was horrible. But on My PC it has never stuttered P4 560 ATi Radeon X800 XT 2 GB DDR2 533 mghtz Ram 250 and 160 GB HDD at 7,200 RPM I believe the problem lies in the on the fly loading that HL2 does. The problem lies in the PC's Virtual Memory. If your hardrive is being used as Virtual memory so that the game can run and your hardrive is loading new textures and sounds, Your hardrive is doing ALOT of seeking. I disabled the windows paging file (even though it is not recommended). One work around is to have your Page file on a seperate Harddrive than the one you installed HL2 or Not have one at all, which depends on the amount of your installed RAM.
Posted By: Justin Posted On: Apr 7, 2005 Views: 1863	Sorry Valve but Half Life 2 is coming off I just purchased Half Life 2 and installed in on my new system. After going through the long process of Steam retrieving all the updates for the game I still experience stutter. I don't want to ruin the experience of this game by having to tolerate the stutter problem throughout. And I assure you that it's nothing wrong with my system. My computer more than exceeds the requirements to run the game: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard 2 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR400 RAM Dual BFG nVidia GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E (in SLI mode) I hate to say it but I'm gonna have to uninstall the game until Valve addresses this issue once and for all.
Posted By: lee welton Posted On: Apr 2, 2005 Views: 1955	nazi lovers valve teh hl2 stutter, it's rather ghey, really.
Posted By: Andy Posted On: Apr 2, 2005 Views: 1929	Have they fixed it yet? Well, after reading all the bad press about stutter I decided to put off playing HL2 - in the hope that Valve would eventually fix it - so I could have a perfect game experience. I'm about to install it on my new PC: AMD 64 4000+, 1GB, Nvidia 6800U, Audigy ZS. Fingers crossed - will let you guys know how it runs.
Posted By: Steve Posted On: Mar 30, 2005 Views: 1948	Return the Game! Sorry Valve guys, but your game is technically a PIECE OF **** (not to mention the ridiculous Steam distribution way)!! I do NOT know a single person, where HL2 does NOT stutter!!
Posted By: BORIS Posted On: Mar 21, 2005 Views: 2145	My (expensive) solution Got a Dual-Xeon System (2 x 3.2 GHz Nocona Xeons on Thunder i7520) with 4 GB DD2-RAM, Radeon X800XL on PCI-E. Guess what? No more stuttering. Even on maxed out settings with 1920 x 1200 the CPU-loads never exceeds 40 %.
Posted By: ECHO....echo Posted On: Mar 19, 2005 Views: 2212	AHHHHHHHH! I feel like a fool- I spent 120 bucks on more RAM so I could play this much anticipated $55 game. Now with state of ther art cards and Max. RAM - I find my self unable to complete HL2 because of the skipping- and I never will. I can't take it. WE SHOUD BE FURIOUS AND DO MORE THAT SIT ON OUR BUTTS WHILE VIVENDI/VALVE MAKE MANY MANY MILLIONS FROM A DEFECTIVE PRODUCT!
Posted By: Tinselsnips Posted On: Mar 12, 2005 Views: 2598	No stuttering AMD Athlon64 3500+ 2.2Ghz standard ASUS A8V-Deluxe BFG GeForce 6600GT OC AGP 8x 525/1050 standard 1024MB PC3200 DDR RAM Dual-Channel 3-3-3-8 Windows XP Home SP2 Maxtor Diamondmax 9 80gb 7200RPM No stuttering on ForceWare 71.81, or 75.90 drivers.

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