| Total Comments 88 | Start A New Comment |
| Post Info | Comment |
| Posted By: Paul Posted On: Mar 12, 2005 Views: 2370 | Stuttering I had HL2 up and working the first day of release and was eager to play through this highly anticipated game. When playing through all went well until I started to notice large clicks and cracks followed by stuttering and slowdowns. Eventually after 5 minutes I decided this would ruin my experience of the game and decided to wait for a fix. After trying many sugestions and even reseating my cards and formatting I came to the conclusion that nothing was going to resolve this so I eventually played the game 4 months on after installing it. I have to say that for such a huge game this problem is unacceptable. I have never experienced this sort of problem with any A list game before after so many months. AMD Barton 3200 DFI Lanparty Ultra II B motherboard OCZ 3200 Platinum matched pair memory Creative Audigy 2z sound card Raptor 76GB Hard Drive 3D Connect X800 XT PE Graphics Card |
| Posted By: neildittmar Posted On: Feb 23, 2005 Views: 3110 | Stuttering / Slowdown problem Admittingly, the stuttering in-game has improved since release with the various updates from Valve as well as tweaks I did (upping the heapsize to 500MB, dropping the texture detail and sound quality to medium, dropping the in-game resolution, disabling autosaves, turning off AA, etc.) However, for me at least, it's far from resolved completely. While I only have the occassional stutter (particularly in the Dark Energy level), I have inherited the "slowdown" problem from the patches that is chronicled on http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter. Where the game used to stutter there is now typically a severe drop in framerate, sometimes resulting in a very brief pause. It certainly doesn't make the game unplayable, however it effectively disrupts the level of immersion and is certainly an annoyance. Other contemporary games (Far Cry, Doom 3, etc.) seem to work fine. Critical system specs are as follows: Pentium 4 (Prescott core) 3.0Ghz / 1MB L2 Cache Asus P4SD-LA Motherboard (800Mhz FSB, running latest Intel inf update) 2GB (4x512MB) PC3200 RAM with heatspreaders eVGA GeForce 6800 128MB video card running nVidia ForceWare 66.93 with additional cooling SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 PCI running latest drivers available from Creative. Maxtor Diamondmax 9 Series 200GB HD, 8MB Cache, 7200RPM with additional cooling. WindowsXP Service Pack 2 with all the latest critical updates. DirectX 9.0C It should be noted that running the game on low quality settings exhibits similar problems as running the game on high quality settings in the same spots. Hopefully Valve will be able to track down what is causing this issue on certain configurations and provide a fix. |
| Posted By: Sonic Posted On: Feb 21, 2005 Views: 2960 | Stutter I have waited so long to play HL2 and when I got it and downloaded it apart from the nightmare I had to register my Key and decrypt the game files the Stutter in gameplay is realing starting to annoy me. It happens so often, I doesn't stop me from playing it stops after a second or so. The reason I posted this is becuase I have noticed some people saying that when the changed graphics cards or increased their memory it nearly dissappears, well not it my case. I have P4 3.2 800fsb 1mb cache 250mb SATA HDD 2048 DPC-4200 Dual Channel DDR2 533Mhz 4x512 x800XT 256 ATI Radeon Soundblaster Audigy 2 I would have expected this spec to run almost anything... NIGHTMARE! |
| Posted By: bdt0 Posted On: Feb 19, 2005 Views: 2988 | Annoying in demo! Just finished building my new PC yesterday and quickly downloaded the HL2 demo from Steam. I haven't had a new PC in years (literally) and couldn't wait to play this. I've got bad stuttering, like most people said, in numerous places on each level - and this is just the demo! Here are my system specs. I know, not state-of-the-art, but allegedly more than enough to play HL2. Celeron D 340 @ 2.93Ghz MachSpeed (Via chipset) mobo - PM9MS Maxtor 7200 rpm 30GB HDD 512MB PC3200 DDR memory GeForce 5700LE 256MB (AGP 8x) If this problem is caused by loading textures into video memory, I don't know what more I could do - I'm pretty sure 256MB is about as high as video cards go. I've played with every @#$! BIOS setting I can find, updated every !@#%! driver known to mankind... until I hear that this is 100% fixed, there's no way I'm dropping $50+ for HL2. At least if it ever comes out for XBox, it's virtually guaranteed to work flawlessly. -b |
| Posted By: Tango Charlie Posted On: Feb 19, 2005 Views: 2268 | Despite the stuttering (very, VERY bad near the end) I managed to finish the game sometime in December. Now Steam's updated my game, and after a few minutes of play the whole thing just crashes. HL2 is, for me, now practically unplayable. I Heart Valve. |
| Posted By: Jacques Posted On: Feb 18, 2005 Views: 2257 | Stuttering solved I too had this stuttering and very severe. I even reinstalled my xp clean, added latest drivers, no software, same problems. I opened a ticket, and reopend it each time they closed it after given a suggestion (you cannot call these responses solutions). Then I added 512 Mb of memory (a total of 1 Gig) and the stuttering is nearly completely gone. My system : P4 Asus p4s8x - 2,533 Mhz Promise raid 0 Memory 1024 Mb (used to be 512) Sapphire radeon 9800 pro |
| Posted By: Punkitup Posted On: Feb 18, 2005 Views: 2164 | Shame on Valve I played and finished the game about a week or two after its release, despite the annoying stuttering, thats it end of story and I will probable never go back to the game. But I feel sorry for those that have had to struggle. It is pretty apparent that Valve has sold every one a $55 handful of sand. Customers shouldn't have to jump through hoops for months to get a product to function (making BIOS adjustments, what a joke). At the very least I would hope that Valve was never allowed to forget this debacle, especially when it comes time for their next highly touted release. And at worst it wouldn't hurt my feelings to see them as the target of a class action lawsuit, they have help to artificial increase the price of games beyond the $50 mark and they should be able to afford the legal team, and if not then I give them the same response they gave their customers tough luck! |
| Posted By: Abdul-Sattar Jabbar Posted On: Feb 17, 2005 Views: 2191 | Damn Stutter Got this game on release as many of you here probably did. I have at least two other friends with lower specs than me who have now finished the game already and there is me who hasnt bothered to play for ages due to the stutter. With evry driver update that gets released I get my hopes high. Then after loading the game (which takes ages) the stutering begins. I Just dont get why games like Doom 3 and Far Cry can be played maxxed out near enough and yet I cant play this game evevn with anti aliasing and antriscopic filtereing turned off. My specs: P4 3GHz 512 MB RDRAM 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro SB Live! |
| Posted By: connos Posted On: Feb 17, 2005 Views: 2046 | no more stuttering I make all the sugestions and the stuttering is gone for good espesially when the final patch came out. I think the most usefull was the pci letency to be 32 and that i change my hdd to 10k wensterd digital raptor. Since that i have faster loadings and when is autosaving is not stutters |
| Posted By: Woodeks Posted On: Feb 12, 2005 Views: 2425 | s s s s stut t t t rrrr r r r rr rr Found out how to get rid of the stuttering. Remove the game. After buying the game, ATI video card and new sound card (to get rid of the stutering), No change. The mo$t expen$ive video game ever!!(and still sucks to play). Im done. |
| Posted By: D4VID Posted On: Feb 12, 2005 Views: 2382 | stuttering minimized! game finally playable THX Skizziks! for me your suggestions worked out! I have no crashs anymore and the game is finally playable |
| Posted By: trap Posted On: Feb 11, 2005 Views: 2402 | whats defragging? How is it done? What is defraaging a hard drive, and how can i do it? Will this stop my scrren from freezing on and off? |
| Posted By: Ruke Posted On: Feb 9, 2005 Views: 2268 | 9800 I just bought a 9800 pro so I could play on higher detail settings, but if I try to play on High it stutters so badly I can barely move, stutters every half second... Specs > Athlon XP 2800+ @ Stock 512 MB PC-2700 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro @ Stock / Latest drivers Oboard AC-97 Realtek Audio |
| Posted By: pete Posted On: Feb 7, 2005 Views: 2455 | stutter big time Too much stutter for 100 $ i decide to stop playing until they fix the god d**** stutter |
| Posted By: Skizziks Posted On: Feb 7, 2005 Views: 2431 | Stutter update After trying out lots of suggestions, I have managed to greatly reduce the stuttering. I created an autoexec.cfg file and put it in the folder: \Valve\Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\half-life 2\hl2\cfg The autoexec.cfg file contains the following: snd_mixahead 0.7 cl_forcepreload 1 sv_forcepreload 1 cl_smooth 0 snd_async_fullyasync 1 r_fastzreject 1 Then in the advanced launch options I put: -heapsize 131072 To avoid the autosave hitch, you can disable it by adding the line sv_autosave 0 to the autoexec.cfg file. Then go into your save game folder and make the 4 autosave files read-only. Of course then the game wont autosave anymore, so save often while playing. Another thing that really helps smooth it out is to defrag your hard drive. For some reason when the game installs, the files are very fragmented. Also try uninstalling your video/audio drivers, running driver cleaner, then re-installing the latest versions. Before I had made my original post I had already done the defrag and driver cleaner which both helped, but adding the autoexec.cfg really made a big difference. The opening G-Man speech runs flawless now and the game only hitches on rare occasions. Well, I just wanted to share my success story and hope that it will help some of you get yours running smooth as well. While I don't like the Steam concept, I have to admit that this is one of the best games I've ever played. Good Luck! |
| Pages [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ] Next Page -> |