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but the irony is it's his frustration that allows peeples to owns him! you simply don't learn when you're angry. although it is frustrating when your friends won't even let you live long enough that you think you're learning anything; i used to get really pissed at my friend's teaching methods...

i was advised to turn it off anyway, not just for half life. my friend's exact words were, "you get a 0.05% performance boost for a 50% loss of stability." completely made up statistics, but you take his point and he knows a lot more than i do about it. i can't say if it worked cos i changed...

this is just a guess. try exiting steam and deleting ClientRegistry.blob which is in \valve\steam, when you restart steam it will update. if that doesn't work go here and search for the term "verify gcf", the top link will take you to a page where you can verify the integrity of your files...

make sure when you install you choose to install both half life 2 and counterstrike:source or it wont work. make sure steam isn't running and just restart the installer

it only uses 64Mb by default, you should set it to about half your system ram and no more for performance unless you're jimbo, in which case you're screwed

no, there's no way of doing it in half life. i guess someone could write an external program that kept an eye on the save folder and automatically renamed quicksave files whenever they changed, but it would have to run in the background and scan the folder often and that would affect your...

or in game options->keyboard->advanced->enable developer console

keep searching here and www.steampowered.com, there is a fix that will allow you to get into advanced options, i know i've seen it somewhere

Jimbo! i've just reinstalled and am reconfiguring and tweaking, and i just noticed that my heapsize was getting ignored (it definitely was working before). so i'm not talking to you anymore in case i catch any more bugs from you! :P i fixed it by moving the -heapsize 256000 to the first...

just in case anyone else ever reads this, yes i can. not bad going, four hours to get HL, OP, CS, DMC, TFC, HL2, HL2DM, CS:S installed and fully updated

i have no idea why. is your system definitely seeing all your ram? (i'm pretty sure it wouldn't even boot if it wasn't, but hey, we're clutching at straws here) tried googling memtest?

i like your style, i had very few stutter problems to begin with, they went away with the official fixes and i've never installed any extra codecs, and my system's not much better than yours. i recall someone posting the name of a program that can help you manage your codecs in this forum, i...

i have an AMD and VIA chipset and i've had nothing like this. and i can think of one game that caused this much trouble when it came out - black and white.

IIRC, when i used to disable my dial-up connection in network connections, i had to restart to get it back, which is a pain in the ass. you could try checking the 'never dial a connection' box in internet settings?

sounds like a shonky disk. just install steam and register your cd key and install HL2 from the net. if you have broadband...

yeah, +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1 is the unknown command, i gather that was an older workaround that didn't seem to do anything and was taken out of a later update, you can remove that. +mat_forcedmanagedtextureintohardware 1 was a later fix, but people have reported serious framerate drops...

can i just point out that +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1 was an official fix and was posted on www.steampowered.com, the official help site. it didn't make a lot of difference to a lot of people, and i get a message in the console saying there is no such command, so presumably it was removed in...

the only time i managed to crash like this was when i had AA forced in display properties, make sure it's set to application-controlled

are you overclocked? www.steampowered.com say hl2 is very sensitive to overclocking, no matter how stable other games are :o note to self: read entire post before replying...

OK, i needed to uninstall all my games (i have a seperate windows installation on another partition purely for gaming - highly recommended!) to move my pagefile and defrag properly, so i ended up installing HL1, OF, CS from the original CDs, then i installed steam and my HL2 retail. when i...