HL2 E2 Flashlight Bug

[BiscuitChocolat]

Hi everybody, i'm new here.
I recently installed Episode 2 on my computer. The game is loading well, no bug and lag.

But when I see screens of the game, I realize that I have a bug.

Look at the flashlight logo, it doesn't look good..

So is there someone who has the solution for my problem?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

You can fix that with Steam by validating your files. Are you using Steam?

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

Yes I do. Tell me how to do this please.

 

[henno13]

Go on to Steam and click the button that says "Validate a Game on Steam" (or something along those lines) in the 'My Games' tab and follow the instructions.

Are you a first time Steam user? The only time I remember using that was when I first started using Steam, back in '06 when I bought CSS. When I got the Orange Box in the Christmas of '07, I don't remember having to validate it.

 

[Barnz]

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

henno13, the product was already activate.
But Barnz, I followed the steps you gave and it's validating.

I'll check once done.

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

Still doing the same bug.
I bought the Orange Box the day it arrived...

 

[huntingbear]

go to options>keyboard>advanced and enable developer console

then type the ~ key (to the left of the 1 key) and enter this

hud_reloadscheme

then hit enter......fixed?

if not i'm calling it pirated OR fix your video drivers

 

[Planetary]

Seconding hud_reloadscheme.
It worked for me when the hud in TF2 sometimes screwed up.

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

I uninstalled Steam with E2 and reinstalled it. I validated my game cache, downloaded the last graphic card drivers and write the thing in the command line, it still doing this bug.

 

[FishBulb]

I could swear this is a bug from having the Half Life 2 font installed. Look in your Windows/fonts folder and see if you find hl2.ttf in there.

 

[bbson john]

I have been having the bug for ages as well. I have tried everything and I don't have hl2.ttf installed...

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

Ok I have the font here so I delete it?

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

Ok I deleted the Half Life 2 font in my windows files and it's correct now!
Seems to corrupt my half life 2 game.

Thank's guys.

 

[bbson john]

I don't have hl2 font installed, but I still have that problem.
Do anyone know what other fonts would mess up the game?

 

[FishBulb]

You're absolutely sure you don't have any sort of Half Life/Half Life 2 font installed? It doesn't necessarily need to be called hl2.ttf for it to mess up the HUD.

 

[bbson john]

Not sure. That will be a bad news for me.
I got over a hundred .tff files in that folder.
Is there anyway I can discern half life font among all other fonts?

 

[BiscuitChocolat]

Did you do things like validating your cache files or write the command line in the console?

 

[FishBulb]

Hmmmm, I may have gotten my info wrong, sorry. I think it definitely has to be called halflife2.ttf or hl2ep1.ttf etc because it causes a conflict with the HL2 fonts provided in your Steamapps folder. Take a look through the fonts in the Steamapps folder (search for *.ttf to make it a bit easier) and see if you can find anything that's similarly named to a font in your Windows/fonts folder.

 

[Xendance]

I remember having this problem (amongst other problems with Episode Two when it was first released, for example, English dialogue had messed up). I think randomly one day it was fine.

 

[bbson john]

Nothing works. I even deleted the .ttf files in my Steam folder and redownload them. The icon remains the same, broken.