Glitching since update?

[dogboy73]

I still get a little glitching with HL2. I think it's gotten worse since the latest update;

http://steampowered.com/?area=news

I was wondering, This update info states that one of the fixes was, "Increased cache memory usage for machines that have greater than 512MB of physical memory. This will reduce hitching due to cache thrashing."

So, Does that mean I still need the -heapsize command? Even though I have 1GB of RAM I was running with a -heapsize 256000 value because the Tweak guides pages said 64MB (64000) was allocated as the default. So I though giving it 4 times as much RAM to play with would smooth it out which it did. After the update I removed the command but the game seemed to 'glitch' a lot again (Tiny moments of lag I guess would be a good description but definitely NOT stuttering). I put the command back in (With the same value as before i.e. 256000) but the glitching remains now.

I'm running at 1024x768 with model detail MEDIUM, Simple reflections, HIGH textures, Shadows at top setting, x2 AA, X2 AF, Shader I think is HIGH as well.

 

[dogboy73]

I changed the settings so much during the first time round & starting again a second time that I can't remember what settings I had now!! I think I played most of the way through with Medium textures. I changed them after reading through the HL2 Tweak guides pages. It seemed textures were more important than model detail so I lowered that setting to medium & upped textures to high. Anyway, Now I've changed Shadow detail to Low & it seems smoother. The shadows in HL2 are not so good even set at high to be honest. I think I can suffer that.

 

[dogboy73]

I'm still confused over whether I should to use the -heapsize command or not. Any ideas? I got the impression from the fix list of the latest patch that I didn't need it but I might have interpreted it all wrong.

"Increased cache memory usage for machines that have greater than 512MB of physical memory. This will reduce hitching due to cache thrashing."

 

[lister]

well im dissapointed with the lates patch as i dont see any improvement at all, infact im sure its made the game worsen. Also, i have noticed with the new patches n stuff that the in-game AI have been nuked, they r far less responsive than when the game was 1st released? Well on the heapsize command i have half my ram so i have put in 384000 put that don't seem to increas my performance 1bit?

 

[dogboy73]

I'm still interested to know if the command is even nescessary after the latest update.

 

[lister]

TBH i dont think the command even work with the new update.