Perpetual Graphical Issues Thread

[packet_loss]

Greetings,

I didn't see anything like this in the forums yet, so I thought I'd make a thread where people can voice any graphics issues they have all in one place. To help with any troubleshooting please list your graphics card manufacturer and model, version of drivers being run, as well as the Operating System.

I've got two issues so far. The first has to do with the shadows. On the one level where you have to use the crane to knock the bridge down, the magnet cast's a circular shadow on the ground. When I place the magnet on a cargo container and lift it, I see both the shadow for the magnet as well as for the container. The magnet shadow shows up about 50% darker than the container's shadow.

Second, in the prison level. There is a room with some electrified water below. The sparks from the bolts of electricity can be seen through walls & floors. I have included a screenshot. Click for a larger version.



ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Catalyst 4.11
WinXP SP2

 

[Naked Snake]

hiya i also have graphical problems although this time pipes computer panels and other details are lit up and are grey,and now more recently im getting the combine troops rendered in this way.It may be because the normals are messing up and i have installed recently the latest graphics driver so it cant be that.

Windows 200 professional
NVidia Geforce FX5800

 

[The Mullinator]

The first problem is something that is hard-wired into the game. No matter what graphics card you use you will still see that happening.

However it isn't really a bug that needs to be fixed as it is a side-effect of the method of computing shadows that HL2 uses. From what I hear there is no way of fixing that problem unless Valve were to completely redo the entire shadow system and replace it with something different. That of course won't happen so expect that problem to stay.

As for the second one I also experienced it myself although I don't know the cause of it. It may be a bug but I just don't know.