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
        • 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
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  Hi
  gary
  with the fix and not additional setting the game still freeze from time to tiem for 2 or 3 sec
  
  im runing at medium 1024x768 with a geforce fx5700 256 mb ram

  Dec 01, 2004 3:25pm PST
  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