Half-Life 2 DM Released

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  hey dude half of us can't run the game : alexthegreat2
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    We will look into it. Thanks, Gary McTaggart (Valve) : garymct
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      Do you think you guys will get it fixed tonight? : mr.sleepy
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        There are a few people working on it now. . . we'll get this fixed as soon as we can. Gary McTaggart (... : garymct
        • Awesome, thanks man. I can't wait to play this. : mr.sleepy
        • Eventhough I pretty much knew they were working on it anyway, this confirmation makes me feel better. : zuga
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          I hope so. :( : Maddog_Delphi97
          • Me, too! Paid so much for new hardware and now this evil stuttering! Very annoyingly...! : MarkusGermany
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          Gary, honestly, do you guys think you are doing enough testing before release? I think Valve needs to ser... : AirElijah
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            We have been testing steam since it came out : mr.sleepy
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              More testing needs to be done of the whole system if so many people are having these problems. I can't be... : AirElijah
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                uh, no. i'm saying "WE" = the users, have been testing steam since it came out. or at least it would appe... : mr.sleepy
                • Yer, I realised what you meant. Just so you know, in every company I've worked for, if we released an ... : AirElijah
        • HL2 and CS now work again. Thanks heaps to whomever was there at 2am working hard to get that out. ... : AirElijah
        • Thank you, Gary!! Works now!! Or thank whoever fixed it. : Maddog_Delphi97
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          By: Jak01 x Show Full Post

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          Hi Gary,
          
          Adding the "+snd_async_prefetch_priority 1" command to mine improved things alot, still not 100% but a great improvement.
          
          The places where it still stutters are mostly when breen is on the screens talking, such as at the beginning and in water hazard. It also does it during autosaves, but for less time.
          
          I also seem to be having these weird moments where the frame rate drops for a second at no particular time for no reason.
          
          Will there be furthur "stuttering" fixes or is this considered fixed now?
          
          Cheers tho, its alot better than before.
          
          Jak

          Dec 01, 2004 5:34am PST
          Hi Gary, Adding the "+snd_async_prefetch_priority 1" command to mine improved things alot, still not ... : Jak01
        • Notice the wording 'few' : cbslf
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        Careful not to start a dispute. Section 10-A of the Steam Subscriber Agreement (http://www.steampowered.c... : protozone
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          Yes, but I payed for Half Life 2. Not for steam. : mr.sleepy
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            Yes, but you need to have both Half-Life 2 and Steam in order to run Half-Life 2. It seems that people w... : protozone
            • One may need Steam to play Half-Life 2, but they can always play it using the offline mode. One wouldn't ... : mr.sleepy
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  why cant we launch hl2 dm? : mojo the helpr monke
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    or hl2 or cs:source or hl:source :) : pyide
    • I'm just pissed cuz DoD:S doesn't work... DAMN YOU VaLVE DAMN You... o wait.. :( : 98z28
  • I'd imagine they're looking into it, and will alert you first : bozer
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  Any luck on figuring out how we can play the games we paid for? I mean I can't even play HL2, CS:S, nothi... : NastyJack
  • Actually, if you read the Steam Subscriber Agreement, you'll find that Valve can revoke your ability to p... : protozone
• valve wants you to take a break so they dont overwelm you with updates where you might fapfapfap : Iwannaacura
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  Fix our games :( : zuga
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    Refer to section 9-B in the Steam Subscriber Agreement. VALVE DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINOUS, ERROR-FREE... : protozone
    • for fuck's sake, quit your whining... if you've ever read the EULA to any commercial software, they all c... : MikkleThePickle
• Seems you didn't test anything enough to make anything run as default yet. :D : Slawterr
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  Uh we can't play the game dude : mr.sleepy
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    Specifically: The HL2DM patch does not allow many of us to execute any Source game. : mr.sleepy
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      More specific: the people who can't play all have an hl2.exe that is 85k (hl2 and hl2dm and cs:s) : alexthegreat2
      • Wow I just noticed that. Perhaps it is from getting the SDK? : Ratalon
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        I can't play and my exe is 1.91 MB : cacktrot
        • Same here. : arken
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    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9107928 did you try this? i renamed hl2, hl2dm and css folders in tha... : cygnus
    • yeah, none of that works for me : mr.sleepy
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  I cant play HL2 & I didnt even download the DM stuff yet. (additional question: I reinstalled HL2 & now i... : arken
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    Refer to section 13-B of the Steam Subscriber Agreement: "Termination by You"... it might be able to answ... : protozone
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      We get it you don't like the EULA. : Ratalon
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        I have boycotted Half-Life 2 and Valve, so the EULA doesn't have much effect on me at all, except that I'... : protozone
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          hi bob how ur tinfoil hat factory job : MrLonghair
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            "tin foil hat" implies that people are paranoid about something that will never happen. Why are you su... : protozone
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              tin foil hat, zealot, all the best rolled into one. People are having problems with a patch. And Valve ... : lont
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                Would you rather that noone ever complained about this sort of thing? To be honest, if it was just Val... : protozone
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                  explain to me how Valve is stripping you of your "freedom"? because of STEAM? never mind that the topic h... : humpx
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                    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9108508 In short, and among other things, they've made it so that pe... : protozone
                    • Give your steamID away : Ratalon
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                      From what I read in EULA you CAN transfer (read; sell/give) your game. Whats stopping anyone from doing s... : humpx
                      • Yep, you have to sell your whole account though, so if there's one game you don't want to sell, you shoul : d fluke
                • I've noticed that Steam still trys to communicate with the intertnet repeatedly when I exit Half life 2.A... : TheDreamDragon
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          Have you seen your own post history. The EUL seems to trouble you very much. : Ratalon
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            Which is too bad. He's depriving himself of a great game. And IMO, Steam works great. My personal expe : Serpico74
            • I figured out why I was stalling. Nothing to do with graphics, I noticed it the second time I was playin : Ratalon
          • As I said, I'm interested in raising awareness. I guess you could say it bothers me, but my point was tha... : protozone
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            Why are you dogging him for posting about the EULA? Do you have any idea how many people don't ever read ... : mr.sleepy
            • Thank you. I'm truly not trying to piss off anyone who has these problems with Half-Life 2, and I wish... : protozone
    • Hi! no problems running any Source stuff here after the DM install. 2.8 P4 w/HT 800FSB GeForce 680... : humpx
  • If you've registered it to the Steam account name you have set up you should be fine. Just enter the acco... : Serpico74
• doing this make the sound WACKY, started giving me a major headache. ive got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz : cawcaw
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  Hello again This time it worked! Finally, I am able to play the game with full enjoyment. There is sti... : ramshot
  • I believe I read somewhere that all parameters you add to in the properties in steam will apply to the wi... : flasher 907
• My system just ended up pausing to load any and all sounds into memory then played them. The long talk f... : Ratalon
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  Stuttering is there and now a little worse and more frequent. Nvidia user : PeniX
  • half life 2 deathmatch very stuttery because of the sound.. the more guns firing off at the same time the... : Cpt. Baseballbat
• Does anyone else have to run the games 3 or 4 times before it finally loads? I get the preparing to play ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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  Adding this option in for me made things a whole lot worse. First of all, in the intro all the parts of g... : ROUS
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    forgot to mention that I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz : ROUS
    • actually, now my sound is just as screwy even when I set snd_async_prefetch_priority back to 0 and reset... : ROUS
• IT WORKS NOW!! : alexthegreat2
• is the nvidia stuttering bug was fixed with the patch coming along with the dm mod ? do i have to enable ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
• I played it for a short while last night (I had to go back to the single player campaign because I haven'... : Cpt. Baseballbat
• Applying the setting only made the stuttering worse than what it was before, My stuttering seems to only ... : funkss
• Have you guys worked on updating the Miles .dll that has conflicts with Audigy cards? Something to look ... : Bibbly
• Hi gary with the fix and not additional setting the game still freeze from time to tiem for 2 or 3 se... : kerm007
• Much, much better. At first I thought it got worse, because the stuttering was really bad initially, wi... : Stage
• Tried it, still stuttering. Usually starts when enemys appear or start firing at me. : silent77
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  Significant improvement, far fewer long pauses, more a fractional blip in the audio usually. Radeon 9700 ... : node
  • "Significant improvement, far fewer long pauses, more a fractional blip in the audio usually." Same h... : zarathustrian
• This made the game unplayable for me. Not only did it not fix the stuttering problem, but after that it w... : sigma
• Gary, I tried the new command line: +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1 (on FX-51/GF 6800GT/1gig ram) and st... : aldousw
• Gary, it does not work for me at all. : km23
• And for those who still get random crashes in HL2?????? I thought that there was a fix on the way. I rea... : tp42mxp
• still stuttering in hl2 sp, but not in hl2dm. weird. : lonestar3
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  This made it WAS WORSE and actualy crashed for the first time ever. Its unplayable for me in general (fps... : buckshack
  • thats "WAY WORSE" :) : buckshack
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  have tried these fixes now it's unplayable. sort it steam this is UNACCEPTABLE this game WAS NOT READY FO... : zarqeld
  • by steam i meant valve, of course. did you leave some out of the game? does it need more valves? : zarqeld
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  DID'NT WORK , still have to use snd_restart to get my sound back to normal after it cops out on every loa... : project_serberus
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    hi there gary i have tested with the command in the steam with the patch apply , bad news the game stil... : kerm007
    • Choppy got worse after last update, I am going to re-apply Omegadrive's modified drivers (Omega Drivers) ... : UFDeadManwalking
• I tried the launch option tag as suggested Gary, and must say that the stuttering was about as bad as eve... : digitalstupor
• work for me at least 99 % (the 1 % appens on aztec map css ....... By the way could you investigate thi... : majestic121