'Q' Weapon Sight / Target Reticle

[N!KtheAL!EN]

Well I for one am awe inspired by the power / graphics / physics of this game. Well done Valve!

I'm a lucky AMD64 SLI owner I just invested in my business, I can play HF2 with everything on HIGH! and it looks mind blowing!

The only thing detracting from my game is the target reticle, the aim point appears as a 'Q' in the centre of the screen. Not the usual dot and cross hairs. Funnily enough when I started playing it was the normal dot a cross, but at some point it has changed and I can't figure it out.

Anyone have any ideas why this is?

I want the Dot and Cross back!
Help much appreciated...

 

[Danimal]

Hmm... I think this has been disscussed once, try searching for crosshair problems.

 

[N!KtheAL!EN]

I did try, but came up blank, I will try again!
Thnx...

 

[ríomhaire]

That is one of the stranger bugs I've heard.

 

[Danimal]

Try deleting your HL2 folder (Backiong up your saved games) Then just let the .gcf files replace it. That might fix it.

 

[N!KtheAL!EN]

yup, my bad. I searched on everything but 'crosshairs' one word.

Here is the solution, for anyone else looking >
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=69685&highlight=crosshairs

Yes, its crap, someting to do with fonts, answer on thread above.

 

[Lahire149]

We shouldn't even have crosshairs...it should be ironsights.

 

[FireCrack]

Yes, because ironsights realy belong in this game...

 

[Hazar]

taken from here


THE Q PROBLEM

A few people report seeing a large letter Q in place of the crosshair. If you see the Q without the health and ammo indicator brackets around it, then you probably have an alternate Half-life font file on your system which is overriding both of the above font files. You probably are not seeing your weapon drawings while switching, also.

Look in the Windows\fonts folder or go to Control Panel - Fonts, to see if you have an HL font file in there. It can interfere even if the file name is not the same. Delete it, or move it to another folder if you need to keep it, and see if that solves the problem. Even an alternate CS font file may cause trouble. Don't remember ever downloading a Half Life or CS font file? It could have come with one of the updates to The All Seeing Eye. After deleting or moving the other font file, you'll probably need to restart your computer before the change will take effect.

If you see the Q but still have the indicator brackets around it, your halflife2.ttf file may be corrupted. To test for a corrupted file, browse to the resource folder as indicated in the path above and delete the halflife.ttf file. Start the game and a new one will be generated.

If you still see the Q after trying both solutions above, try reinstalling the game.

 

[Computer5k]

Its because Valve stored some of the in-game sprites as fonts
Not quite sure why, and I don't really care