Half-Life 2 - official (9/14 Black Mesa Source?!)

[Mzo]

Weird.

The game is like, made for that card. Do you have the latest drivers, blah blah blah?

[Roufuss]

Its a Radeon 9800 Pro. Im looking on the forums, but the search function has been disabled, so its been a pain in the ass trying to find a post relevant to my problem.

Are you using the Catalyst 4.12 beta drivers?

If so, try going down to the 4.11's, or try using the Omega Drivers 4.11 Beta, found at omegadrivers.net.

Make sure when you uninstall and reinstall drivers, ATI has a mini guide on their site for every step you should do to make sure it's clean.

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/removal.html

And did you try other games also?

[EightBit]

Are you using the Catalyst 4.12 beta drivers?

If so, try going down to the 4.11's, or try using the Omega Drivers 4.11 Beta, found at omegadrivers.net.

Make sure when you uninstall and reinstall drivers, ATI has a mini guide on their site for every step you should do to make sure it's clean.

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/removal.html

And did you try other games also?

Yeah, I get no problems with Doom 3, Dawn of War, or NWN. I'll do up those Omega Drivers and see if that works, thanks.

[Roufuss]

Yeah, I get no problems with Doom 3, Dawn of War, or NWN. I'll do up those Omega Drivers and see if that works, thanks.

Well, by latest drivers, you did mean the 4.12 betas right? Those are the ones optimized for the source engine.

It could just be they aren't working right in your system for some odd reason, they are still in beta form. If you're not using the 4.12's, give them a try, but I prefer Omega stuff.

[epmode]

now this is interesting:

The changes in this release are directed at reducing the problem some users are experiencing with sound stuttering. The sound stuttering is not indicative of a sound problem, sound stuttering is only a symptom of texture thrashing on your video card or AGP memory. For information on how to reduce texture thrashing visit this link on our support site:

http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi...hp?p_faqid=280

This update will fix sound stuttering that users were experiencing that would last for longer than a few seconds during normal gameplay. This update will also eliminate this same behavior following a quicksave or autosave. There will still be a short pause while the autosave happens, but not the more drawn out stuttering behaivior.

We are still investigating another performance problem on some hardware, which will manifest where the game is getting into a state where performance drops to less than 5 fps and does not recover or crashes.

Next week we will be releasing the Source SDK, along with a surprise for the community.

[Roufuss]

Did that patch come out yet, or what?

Because Steam didn't update my HL 2 =/

And the link dosen't work.

[epmode]

Did that patch come out yet, or what?

Because Steam didn't update my HL 2 =/

And the link dosen't work.

the patch is out now. i think it's a small one. restart steam.

[Roufuss]

the patch is out now. i think it's a small one. restart steam.

Gotcha, I didn't think it would say "updating Steam" when it was actually updating HL 2 =/

But yea, I just replayed the intro, and no stuttering at all this time.

Good job, Valve.

[Tain]

Next week we will be releasing the Source SDK, along with a surprise for the community.

While I care so much about level editing, I'll never know, as I've never actually finished a level. Still, I can't wait.

[Frogacuda]

How can I tell if the patch installed? I'm still having stuttering problems. Getting nothing under "Update news" either.