Checkered Textures And Other Graphical Anomalies

[fragnemesis]

I finally beat the game, and despite enjoying the hell out of it, I was disappointed to note a greater than average number of graphical anomalies throughout the game, and I'm curious to know whether many other people noticed them as well.

The first glitch struck when I entered Eli Vance's lab. There were missing textures everywhere in the upper levels of the lab which appeared black, but the wireframes of the floor were seen below them. This was also seen a few times later in the game, but most other instances were quite rare in comparison to Eli's lab.

Another frustrating glitch came about from the strange bumpmapping placed on several "rubble-esque" textures to give them a checkerboard appearance. Some textures are not as noticeable without shining a light directly on them, but several were obvious simply with the standard level lighting. This was witnessed during the latter part of the game while tromping around City 17.

Has anyone else noticed these? They happen often enough that I can't help but think someone else has experienced them. And for the sake of broadening the topic, have you noticed any other strange graphical glitch that you feel is prevalent enough that it should be patched?

My system specs:

Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB DDR RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro with 4.11 drivers.

 

[Wraith]

this is a problemf or many people. it was a problem for me too with cs:s, but then i re-downloaded it and itworked fine. i believe it stems from missing textures, so that whenever there is a missing texture, it displays that purple and black checkerboard.

 

[fragnemesis]

For the checkerboard effect I'm referring to, I see the texture just fine, but since there's a checkered bumpmap on top of it, when lit, the texture appears checkered itself.

Perhaps the bumpmap information is missing?

Ack! I see now that I posted this in the wrong forum and there is another topic on this in "support". This is, however, a different glitch from that of the purple/black checkerboard textures seen in the images posted in the other topic. I only hope it's widely seen enough for Valve to consider fixing it...

 

[Rhalle]

I think it's a one-time load error. My game was fine, then after a load at Ravenholm I got the Pink checherboard. I loaded the same save, and got it again. I started new game at Ravenholm, and it was fine after that. I never saw another glitch after that one.

 

[Kongo]

I've never had a single problem with HL2, from the first preload to the end credits(except for the auto-save "stutter"). I feel happy