Major Problem!

[THP]

Hopefully somebody here can help me. I've been searching around on the forums for the past couple days and I can't find anything that's similar to my problem. I've been playing HL2 fine for the past couple days, but I just installed a new CPU (upgraded from an AMD Duron 1.2 to an Athlon XP 2400+), and now whenever I turn my flashlight on and then off, all of the textures start to flash white on and off whenever I move around. I've re-installed HL2 twice, validated the files, even deleted and downloaded the materials gcf, but nothing seems to work. Can someone help me PLEASE?!?!?!

Specs (yes, my comp is a pos):
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
GeForce 2 MX400 64 Meg.
256 meg DDR ram

 

[^Ben]

Reinstall windows when you do a major upgrade like you just did.

 

[doomed - uk]

Yeah, reinstalling Windows is certainly something to try.

I always do a complete reinstall that when I'm building a new machine or adding anything major.

 

[THP]

Should I do a fresh install (ie. format, reinstall) or just reinstall over my current Windows?

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

I suggest a format. There's nothing like a fresh harddrive

 

[GetCool]

A clean reinstall might help, but if all you did was upgrade your CPU (and not your motherboard, etc.) then I fail to see why such an upgrade would cause a problem like you mention. It's probably a driver problem somewhere, however, so by reformatting and reinstalling all your updated drivers from scratch, you may fix the problem.

 

[THP]

Well, I tried some drivers, and still no luck. First I tried the beta drivers from nZone again, now I just get tearing instead of the white flashing. I also tried the newest offical Nvidia drivers, and I have the same problem. Think I should try some previous ones and see if I have any better luck with those?

 

[^Ben]

Aha tearing, easily fixed.

Put wait for vertical sync, in the options dialog.

It's caused by the game displaying to many frames for your monitor to handle.

 

[THP]

Hmm... I tried that, and it didn't do a thing.. I guess I must not be thinking of the right thing. I signed up with photodump so I could show a couple of pics of what's going on now.

Pic #1
Pic #2

Hopefully that helps.

 

[THP]

I FIXED IT!!! WOOT! It was a driver problem. My vid card didn't like either of the drivers I was using, so I switched to Omega's 1.6177 driver and it's all good now

 

[doomed - uk]

Good to hear. :cheers: