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Hey, great thread, Sunshine. Good idea making a new one, your very informative post at the bottom of the other thread was about four pages down, so I doubt many people got to read it. Glad people are finally realizing, thanks to you, that this is a bug with Source and that the Valve team is...

Yeah I see the same striped pattern on some stairs and certain wooden floors, so I know exactly what you're talking about. I don't think it's intentional either, but since it's only messed up on a handful of surfaces, it's not a huge deal. I'm running on a 9800pro, which is a pretty standard...

Haha, it's not a theory. It's a real, live problem with Source (though not that bad), and Cliffe has already responded. This thread has served its purpose. I'm not sure if you don't yet have CS:S or just plain didn't take the time to check out the maps in 8.1 mode before posting, but walk...

Yeah, good point. We at least know there isn't only one type of glass. Even though I'm thrilled with CS:S, I think we've got a lot more to look forward to in HL2, even in terms of effects like glass, because they still have so many tricks up their sleeve. And yeah, about modding in my...

Serious question here, for anyone who thinks SoF2's glass is better than Source glass. I just played the SoF2 demo and took some glass screens and damn do they suck. I'd say that's far worse than CS:S, but that's just an opinion. Do so many people like SoF2's glass because it was simply the best...

Sweet, even easier. Thanks for the tip, Redundant. -UnmarkedOne

Sweet, Gamespot's my site of choice, I always like their p/reviews. Thanks for the info, lans. -UnmarkedOne

The Source glass is great. The only game with better glass is Red Faction (I never played the second, it might have the same glass). In RF, you could break a window and it looked a lot like Source glass, but the shards would stay on the ground for a long time, or maybe indefinitely. EDIT: If...

That's really great to hear that the Valve guys are looking into this and actually care what is said on the forums. Thanks! Actually that's usually true, but I think he does revisit from time to time, even if he doesn't answer. In my last thread about the Source graphics...

When it comes to Gold, that's what I chose and I feel that I'll be getting what I paid for. I would have bought Silver anyway, so I only needed to justify spending $30 more for the Gold pack. I felt the extra goodies were worth that, so I don't feel like Valve owes me anything. I'm more than...

Agreed. It really shouldn't be like that in DX8, and I suspect it would be relatively easy to fix with a patch. I'm assuming here that a huge percentage of HL2 customers will be running the game on DX8 cards. It's not like only a few people will see this... it's a major issue that I suspect...

Strangest poll ever, right? The poll, however, is more for your info than mine. I was running CS:S in DX8.1 mode and noticed that almost ALL of the textures are shiny. Earlier threads were filled with people complaining about this, but we later found out it was a bug. If you run CS:S in DX9.0...

Are you sure you're running in DX9? Please don't take this as a flame at all, I really need some info. And to anyone else having She's same problem, please answer below. I played three levels and wrote down all the shiny (even remotely) textures I could find. Listed here: Italy -Where the...

It's not inherently a bad thing, but my beef with all the bumpmapping in D3 was that the texture quality was so low. It looked fine if you only saw a little of the texture, or it was dimly lit, or you were at a distance. However, as soon as you step up to the wall, you can easily see how jaggy...

Yeah, She was one of the main people complaining of this shiny problem. She, is your CS:S running in 8.1 mode? When you talk about a facelift, you're making it sound like they over-did it with the shinyness. Not so, in DX9 mode, however. The shiny textures I see are very, very subtle and...

My card uses DX9 by default, but if anyone wants to see the messed up textures, you can manually set it to 8.1 by doing the following: Open Steam Right-click CS:S -> Properties -> Launch Options Type "-dxlevel 81" without the quotes Now open the CS:S link as you usually would, and...

I would venture to guess, based on what I've seen on my own computers, that anyone seeing unrealistic shiny textures on the CS:S maps is probably stuck in DX8.1 mode (most likely due to their video card not supporting the new effects). People in the other post were complaining about the shiny...

DX8 appears better in several of the pics, yeah, but in the game it's way too extreme and looks cheesy most of the time. I can easily see why a lot of people with older vid cards were complaining... it's all wrong in DX8 mode. However under DX9 the game's beautiful and every textures shines (or...

Note: Not a thread for the CS:S forum, this is Source/HL2-related There was a thread titled 'Counter-Strike: Shiny' a few days ago and it was pages long, and is now buried pages deep. I didn't add on to it because it's a huge thread and I doubt anyone would read through it even if I did post...

Haha yeah, well over here in America a large portion of the parents are far too immature/inadequate to be parents at all, and will actually buy Mature-rated games for little kids who shouldn't be exposed to it in the first place. Many, many of those parents deserve to have their kids taken away...