crosshair's a Q ????

[J_Tweedy]

i just started getting the wierdest problem on hl2 where the crosshair is now a large 'Q' and the fonts on the main menu are different.
It says:

HALF-LIFE'

instead of the obvious HALF-LIFE2.
Also the health and ammo indicators are large, as if i am running a crap resolution, which i am not.
Any ideas, aside from reinstalling the game, cos i dont have time to wait for my 56k to download 25megs or so again, at least not on 20hrs of inet a month!

 

[Danimal]

hmm, re-booting your computer?

 

[Ranga]

omg... i have the last post on the first 5 threads... i'm embarrased

 

[Mad-Larkin]

okay, i had this problem. its becos halflife's hud is stored in your windows font folder. now if u download a halflife2 font and put it in there it replaces it. you need to delete and halflife fonts out of ur font folder (should be c:/windows/fonts)

you should now be able to run halflife 2 and it will download the missing file it needs, if it doesn't, uninstall and install it again.

 

[J_Tweedy]

sweet cheers

 

[J_Tweedy]

actually, i cant seem to find any halflife 2 related font file. any idea what its called?

 

[bliink]

Just click here to verify hl2 files

 

[J_Tweedy]

sorry man bad link or sumthing. That looks like it would help tho

 

[ZeeM]

man

b7!

 

[oni_666]

What you need to do is Navigate to this folder.......

C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\[email protected]\half-life 2\hl2\resource

add the 2 fonts to your windows font library, In C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

Or download an updated Crosshair here (link below) and replace the original fonts with this...Instead of the dots you get a thicker, easier to see Xhair..

http://halflife2.filefront.com/news/HalfLife_2_Crosshair_Replacement;14300

 

[J_Tweedy]

cheers oni that worked

 

[lordoftheroot]

That is one of the weirdest problems that multi people have had. Does anyone have an idea why the game does this?

 

[J_Tweedy]

ive heard its just a bug with the font files- i guess that isn't a very good explanation, but i haven't heard anything else about it

 

[Mad-Larkin]

Just click here to verify hl2 files

for future note, that doesn't work, cos halflife 2 has mixed the files up it still thinks that its okay. it doesn't recognise that the file is a different one with the same name.