Help with Half Life 2

[ezwider]

Ok so I use to have a Geforce 4400 and Half Life 2 barely ran on it but it was fine. I recently just picked up Orange Box, a new gig of ram, and a Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT.

Portal works fine but is a little choppy when I'm turning around and whatnot.

On the other hand, HL Lost Coast, HL Episode One and Two are acting iffy.

There are polygonal holes in every characters faces and bodies, along with wierd texture covered wire frame-like things attatched to their bodies and going through their bodies onto each of their limbs.

It's incredibly distracting(esp the holes in their faces), I tired switching model and texture details to medium and changed the anti aliasing around but I am not sure what to do, nor know what those mean.

Does anyone know whats up? If Portal is working, how come this isnt? Thankyou so much for your help, Steam's Forum wouldnt let me post a thread for some reason... god I hate Steam...

 

[joule]

Have you updated your video drivers with the new video card?

www.nvidia.com

 

[ezwider]

yeah im gonna try that right now but i dont see why it wouldnt do it to portal, they run on the same specs

 

[ezwider]

yeah i already did that

 

[predatowned]

Well, I think you're expecting alot out of your video card. Its still very low end.

 

[Asus]

Make sure you get a current version of the video drivers. Have them ready to install. *Uninstall your Nvidia drivers that are on there right now. There may be something from the old configuration still installed that is messing it up.
Restart your PC after the uninstall and install the new file. You may have already installed the new drivers over the old ones but go ahead and do this that way it is a clean install.

*Download driver cleaner if you need to.

Set AA (anti-aliasing) to none and AF (anisotropic filtering) to bilinear or trilinear but not a number. If you set either to a number (e.g. 2X) then it will slow performance down a bit and we just want to make sure the game runs right.

 

[ezwider]

Make sure you get a current version of the video drivers. Have them ready to install. *Uninstall your Nvidia drivers that are on there right now. There may be something from the old configuration still installed that is messing it up.
Restart your PC after the uninstall and install the new file. You may have already installed the new drivers over the old ones but go ahead and do this that way it is a clean install.

*Download driver cleaner if you need to.

Set AA (anti-aliasing) to none and AF (anisotropic filtering) to bilinear or trilinear but not a number. If you set either to a number (e.g. 2X) then it will slow performance down a bit and we just want to make sure the game runs right.

Thanks man

 

[ezwider]

Ok I brought my PC to my mom's office to take advantage of the fast ethernet, although its not even WORKING right now!

I cached the files, still nothing, the card is secure as far as I know.

It came with a four pin connector that sprouts into 2 other 4 pin connectors, but there wasnt a slot open on my power supply, however their was a daisy chain open and I just hooked one of the 4 pins onto that and there is still one loose end of the 4 pin 1 to 2 connector laying around.

Here are my specs after running dxdiag.

On the device section it shows my 7300 card. On the driver section this is what it says.

main driver: nv4_disp.dll

version:6.14.0011.6921(english)

date:12/26/07

WHQL Lodo'd:n/a

mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys

VDD:n/a

DDIversion:9(or higher)

As a last ditch effort, here are 2 screen shots from what is pretty much happening.

 

[Asus]

Have you tried to re-install the game/steam yet? Just copy the cache files for backup (ncf files in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps). The game may still be using settings/optimizations for your old card.

 

[ezwider]

sorry for the double post

i figured it out

i took the orange box down to VA to my gf's and installed it on her computer

when i installed it on my computer, it didnt ask for the 2nd disc and just downloaded the files from steam or something

when i installed it on my gf's computer, it asked for both discs and installed all of the games, and THEN it downloaded the files from steam, her graphics card sucks and it didnt play well, but i didnt have the same problems as those in the screen shot

YAY!

 

[DEATH eVADER]

it didnt ask for the 2nd disc and just downloaded the files from steam or something

If Steam detects a connected network, it will sometimes download the installation rather than using the disc (Even if your part way through installation). Thats alright most of the time, but can lead to files and the like to be missed from installation.

The way to solve this is to "verify integrity" of your cache files as it solves most 'missing data' problems.

I use this Steam feature a lot now as I have started doing a lot of purchasing online

 

[stintage]

Make sure that you turn off your antivirus while your playing games