Possibly serious bug in Half Life 2's maps...

[Jigen]

OK, I was playing through Half Life 2 SP today, and I came upon a progress-hindering bug! Basically in one of the tunnels in 'canal', there's a wall of hall of mirrors effect that will not let me pass. I have played through HL2SP before, it seems this is a new introudced bug in a recent patch. Still I would like someone to verify this. Here's some screenshots I took...

LOD glitch

unpassable HOM bug

 

[$kelet0r]

thats your graphics card mate - not the game :|
to be on the safe side you can always validate your files but the problem is 90% likely to be your video card
you should
1. Upgrade your drivers at either the Ati or nvidia website
2. Make sure you have adequete cooling/ your fans and heatsinks are working

 

[Jigen]

OK, well it's not my graphics card as this is a physical wall I cannot pass through.

I have verified my files, but I will reinstall anyways.

Oh, btw, did you read how I said, I WENT THROUGH THE GAME BEFORE? This is either a new bug or some strange corruption of my HDD. Please read before you say something.

I just url'ed the links instead of imaging...

 

[$kelet0r]

OK, well it's not my graphics card as this is a physical wall I cannot pass through.

I have verified my files, but I will reinstall anyways.

Oh, btw, did you read how I said, I WENT THROUGH THE GAME BEFORE? This is either a new bug or some strange corruption of my HDD. Please read before you say something.

I just url'ed the links instead of imaging...

lol how does that mean it isnt your graphics card?
BTW you're not using cheats are you like noclip because that can put you in ares that are unfinished or werent necessary ingame - meaning weird looking graphical anomalies
and dont bother reinstalling - it might work for other games but it doesnt work for hl2 and takes literally HOURS to do

 

[Jigen]

lol how does that mean it isnt your graphics card?
BTW you're not using cheats are you like noclip because that can put you in ares that are unfinished or werent necessary ingame - meaning weird looking graphical anomalies
and dont bother reinstalling - it might work for other games but it doesnt work for hl2 and takes literally HOURS to do

Well, I'm using the latest official Nvidia drivers. But, I would hope it's just logical that graphics don't directly affect gameplay in this way.

Yes, I'm not using any cheats or anything, and I haven't done any noclipping to a strange area...

I am reinstalling now, yes, it will take forever...

Can't someone here just verify the level, you can skip to the level canal01_9 or something and see if I'm correct.

 

[Jigen]

OK, I found the specific command to type in the console to see if you have this bug... type : map d1_canals_09

If you can play through this section, then the bug is on my side.

OK, I've solved the problem, it was the save file... I did the above command myself and it worked on my system. I don't know how the save file got corrupted in this way...

 

[bliink]

I just deleted a load of posts because they were spam and flames about postcounts and joindates.

Note: If you obsess over post counts and join dates, you will have them reset.

 

[Shasta]

I just deleted a load of posts because they were spam and flames about postcounts and joindates.

Note: If you obsess over post counts and join dates, you will have them reset.

I could't give a crap about them. Reset them all if you want. They were brought up by someone else. Just tell the little 12 year olds on daddys computer to get it right before attempting to correct someone.

 

[bliink]

I could't give a crap about them. Reset them all if you want. They were brought up by someone else. Just tell the little 12 year olds on daddys computer to get it right before attempting to correct someone.

You'll end up banned if you don't rid yourself of your annoying and troll-like attitude

 

[funkyFlash]

You'll end up banned if you don't rid yourself of your annoying and troll-like attitude

You're even pissing off the admins now...

 

[SnowDog73]

Same problem

For what it's worth, I am having the exact same problem. I have tried loading from several save points along along this level. I guess I'll try loading from an earlier save .

Here's the problem. In the Water Hazard level, as you are forced to race along as the 'copter ahead drops mines on you, you eventually enter a tunnel for protection. There's this brief area where you actually race -above- some pipes and then back into them.

Shortly after getting back into the pipes, the tunnel turns to the left. Immediately ahead of me, where I imagine a "Loading" boundary is, instead is a strange graphical effect. When I approach it, the game registers this as a collision, as with a wall.

No cheats, no hacks, just playing single player game for first time through. This is the first problem I've had with the game.

edit: Added some images.

The area of the game I'm talking about:

The "hall of mirrors" effect where the "wall" is:

And finally, what it looks like when you actually hit:

This is all on a new system, 2 GB Ram, Athlon X2 3800+, 7800 GT, running latest official nvidia drivers.

 

[bliink]

It looks exactly like an overheating videocard. See if you can get some diagnostics to test that.

There are programs that run stress tests on graphics cards to test their thermal controls.

 

[Epsi]

No, the problem is somehow the transition zone that normally would cause you to load the next map is somehow missing, so you're stuck on the old map, which isn't built beyond that point. There's a wall there, but for optimisation reasons that wall isn't rendered because you'd never normally see it, you'd have loaded a new level, so you see into the void beyond the world, which looks like that. Not a video problem at all.

 

[Vegeta897]

Yeah, that's what the void looks like in HL/HL2. The next level isn't loading for some reason.
Why do people keep saying it's a graphics problem

 

[bliink]

Why do people keep saying it's a graphics problem

Because thats what a card problem looks like.

If its a corrupted map, validating your steam files will re-download any missing parts.

Put this link in your address bar and hit enter: steam://validate/220

 

[Naudian]

I think this same thing happened to me...it was scary for a moment lol.

I'm pretty sure validating the files solved the problem for me, but I guess Jigen found a different way to fix it. Maybe it wasn't the same problem, meh.

...stupid hl2 and it's corrupt files always makin me gotta verifies crap why I oughta mutter mutter mutter...

 

[bigburpco]

I had that bug for Highway 17 once, where you get a white wall and can't pass through the tunnel. Also had it for Our Benefactors, when I dropped from the pod the next level refused to load.

EDIT: Hurrah, 200 posts.