Ammo Counter Not Displaying Properly

[jedidave]

When I switch my resolution to 1280x1024, the ammo counter doesn't display properly. Instead of being displayed at the bottom of the screen towards the right, it gets displayed on the right edge of the screen and I see half a number. The number changes and flashes red when i fire, but i can't tell how much ammo i have. When ever I see it to a lower resolution like 1024x768, this is fixed. But 1280x1024 is the native res of my LCD.

Is there anyway to fix this?

AMD Athlon64 3500+
Geforce 8800GTS OC edition 640MB
1GB RAM
Windows XP
DirectX 9c

 

[Mahalis]

Fairly common error. I believe verifying game cache fixes it.

 

[jedidave]

I've verified it a number of times. I've had this problem since I first downloaded the HL2 about a year ago. But back then i only had a 6800GT so I had the res set to 1024x768. However since i now have a pretty beefy GPU I thought i would boost my res up.

Is it normal during the verify for the percentage counter to drop back and then go forwarded again ie.. 19% -> 20 % -> 21% -> 16% -> 17% .... it does that two or three times during the verify process.

 

[Naudian]

Ann Coulter Not Displaying Properly.

Wait wut *re-reads*

Oooohhh...

sry, don't know any sure-fire ways that could be fixed...

Also, that doesn't really sound normal for the percentage to drop...though I've never really sat there and watched it verify the files...

 

[giant384]

have you tried changing the resoltion,closing and then restarting hl2?
Also verify the game files really doest help everything....

 

[jedidave]

Thanks Giant384. That solved it!

 

[Beerdude26]

I lol'ed at all the people who said verify cache