i tired the preload cfg stuff, and well it's definetly getting better. but i think i'll just wait for a real patch to play it at OPTIMAL performance. meanwhile i'm playing chapter 2-3 again. i love blowing up combine with barrels ;)
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i have the same machine. unfortunately we also share this bug :(
well, after all this posts and ideas how to solve the problem, i think we're officially f*cked until valve patches, right?
or do YOU post a WORKING SOLUTION which you TRIED BEFORE in the next posting and prove...
well, i didnt dl the game, i bought it on DVD in a shop, so it's not a bug due to busy steam servers (at least not in the downloading process, i dunno about the unlocking stuff).
well, i hope it's not an installation bug. i took like 80(yes, eighty!) minutes to install, and i'm not really...
this might be intresting info:
i'm running this game on a notebook (Acer Aspier 1501LMi) and it has a AC97 onboard soundchip. But I bought a Audigy 2NX external soundcard.
Well, I was trying the game with the external soundcard and got this stuttering, but now I unplugged the external...
i have the VERY same bug, and also a Audigy2 (the NX external version)
can you guys confirm that the problem is much worse with 7.1 settings than just "2 speaker" ?
btw, i posted about this issue on a german forum, and well this problem seems to be pretty common :(
and it's really...