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

**MechDeus** · 17 Nov 2004, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by bing

Mech, i had that problem also. for some reason it would open hl2 when it wasnt completely finished downloading. what i did was when i was at the blurry loading picture just alt+tab out of it and let it continue to load till you have 100%

Yeah, I just went to sleep and let it run all night, it was creeping along so slowly last night it usually took like ten minutes for a single percent addition. CS and HL:Source installed no problem, though.

Favorite moment so far: The enforcers are on a bridge with explosive barrels so I aim at the barrels to blow them off, and the instant my finger presses the trigger they drop a flaming barrel right in front of my face so I detonate it at point blank range. Damn circumstance.

I'd still be playing but it decided to freeze on me and I'm scared to try and remember when the last time I hit quicksave was.

**epmode** · 17 Nov 2004, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by MechDeus

I'd still be playing but it decided to freeze on me and I'm scared to try and remember when the last time I hit quicksave was.

not a problem. the game autosaves frequently. almost halo-style. it's just that it does so silently.

**Cowutopia** · 17 Nov 2004, 12:57 PM

I was going to say, doesn't it use a cool checkpoint system?

**Frogacuda** · 17 Nov 2004, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by MechDeus

I'd still be playing but it decided to freeze on me and I'm scared to try and remember when the last time I hit quicksave was.

The autosave is horribly frequent and intelligently placed. I find most of the times when I go to save it already just has.

**MechDeus** · 17 Nov 2004, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by epmode

not a problem. the game autosaves frequently. almost halo-style. it's just that it does so silently.

Double awesome. I hadn't touched any of the menus since I started playing so I wasn't sure on that, most games give some kind of on-screen notification even when they auto-save.

**Rumpy** · 17 Nov 2004, 01:50 PM

I was just poking around Shacknews for HL2 stuff, and if your having sound skipping they (one of the Valve programmers) suggests lowering the sound quality option to medium (if on high). If that doesn't work, then lower the texture detail. My audio seems to work fine but I'm going to try that first tip and see what happens.

**Frogacuda** · 17 Nov 2004, 02:05 PM

If I boot up and close everything, and don't run IE before playing, set the sound quality to medium and textures to medium it seems to run alot smoother, suggesting it is a RAM issue. my framerates increased dramatically as well.

**Cowutopia** · 17 Nov 2004, 02:10 PM

What changes in sound quality if you tune it down to medium?

And have we discovered what you need to keep it on high? General system ram or some type of sound card minimum?