missing faces, bug?

[stinkyasian]

so I started a new game and the face talking to me, during the intro, was just 2 eye balls and a pair of dentures. I thought maybe that was the way the character was supposed to be, so I shrugged it off. Then when I get taken to the interrogation room and my in-game allie takes off his mask, he has 2 eyes and dentures instead of a complete face too. At this point I'm thinking it's either a bug, or I missed a lot since finishing the first HL game. Finally when Alyx and the prof all had eyes and dentures I was 99.99% sure it was a bug.
Has this happened to anyone else?

My specs are:
AMD sempron 3000
1.5gig RAM
radeon 9800 pci 128mb
audigy sound card

as far as I know all the drivers are up to date.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Moved to help section.

I have never heard of such an absurd bug before, so my first question is if you have a legal copy?

If you do, the solution is simple, go to your 'my games' menu, right click HL2 and click properties, on one of those tabs find 'verify integrity of game cache' and steam will correct any corrupted game information (possible scarface incidents included). Hope this solves your problem.

 

[stinkyasian]

thanks

yeah, i should take some screenies because it looks absurd. I'll try the verify integrity route, thanks for your help.

 

[stinkyasian]

the pics

Verifying the file integrity didn't help.

still seeing eyes and dentures...

bug1.jpg
bug2.jpg
bug4.jpg

i appologize for the image dimensions.

 

[Inyssius Grey]

Wow, that second one actually looks kinda nifty (in a disturbing sort of way)...

 

[bbson john]

Verifying the file integrity didn't help.

still seeing eyes and dentures...

bug1.jpg
bug2.jpg
bug4.jpg

i appologize for the image dimensions.

Damn! You scared me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT CLICK TO THE LINK, IT IS HORRIBLE.

It does show what's happening though. I am sure this is not a illegal vision problem. He got the legal one.

 

[mastag]

wowzers...

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Holy crap that is scary.

I really dont know what that is, sorry.

 

[Steven]

I find your lack of face disturbing.

 

[Beerdude26]

What are your system specifications? (A tutorial can be found here: Link)

 

[eraser]

That's some weird shit.

 

[Shippi]

.

 

[bbson john]

as far as I know all the drivers are up to date.

Update your driver
Or get Windows XP SP2

 

[stinkyasian]

my system specs

OS: windows XP pro with service pack 2
PROCESSOR: amd sempron 3000+, mmx, 3dnow, ~2gig
MEMORY: 1.5gig
VIRTUAL MEMORY: 197 used, ~3.2gig free
DX VERSION: DX 9.0c
GRAPHIC CARD: radeon 9800 pro
GRAPHIC CARD MEMORY: 128mb
RESOLUTION: 1280 x 1024 32bit 70mhz
DRIVERS: 6.14.0010.6601

ADDITIONAL: there are lots of fans in the case and it was pretty dusty when i opened it up. i cleaned out the major clumps and cleaned off the grills as best i could. i just got this computer from a friend and i'm sure he wouldn't sell me a bunk computer. i have no idea why it's only those faces that are missing. the combine models look fine...

 

[mastag]

where did you buy the game? have you tried contacting valve tech support? they may be able to help. (unless you pirated it, of course.)

 

[MorganFreeman911]

I got the Pirate link from someone ingame. I reported him to VALVe almost instantly.

EDIT: I would never in an infinite timeline, ever use that link though. (I won't put it. No.)

 

[A True Canadian]

Verifying the file integrity didn't help.

still seeing eyes and dentures...

bug1.jpg
bug2.jpg
bug4.jpg

i appologize for the image dimensions.

Have you tried re-installing the game? Playing the game at a lower resolution?

 

[Hypnosos]

Verifying the file integrity didn't help.

still seeing eyes and dentures...

bug1.jpg
bug2.jpg
bug4.jpg

i appologize for the image dimensions.

Sure looks funny.

 

[Beerdude26]

Kacation_man found a pwnful help tool:

steam://support/?Issues=*

See if your problem has been resolved after these steps.

 

[stinkyasian]

i guess it worked itself out..

well the problem was fixed when i ran the game last night.
I changed the resolution to 1280x1024 (lcd) and fired up the 2nd chapter, sure enough alyx had a face.
before, i ran the game at 1280x960 (or the option just before 1280x1024), so maybe that was the only issue...it doesn't seem like a logical problem but hey it's fixed and i'm happy.
thanks for your help.

 

[The Brick]

uhhhh shit wrong thread :/

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Stinky, that dosn't make sense, I run it at 1280X960 sometimes when I want it to look funny. (Cause mine is 1280X1024) And I always get a face.