Restart steam guys! PATCH IS OUT! Surprise next week from VALVe as well!

~Speed_Demon~ · Nov 25, 2004

This is great news!!!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Half-Life 2 Update
November 24, 2004, 5:00 pm · valve
The changes in this release are directed at reducing the problem some users are experiencing with sound stuttering. The sound stuttering is not indicative of a sound problem, sound stuttering is only a symptom of texture thrashing on your video card or AGP memory. For information on how to reduce texture thrashing visit this link on our support site:

http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=280

This update will fix sound stuttering that users were experiencing that would last for longer than a few seconds during normal gameplay. This update will also eliminate this same behavior following a quicksave or autosave. There will still be a short pause while the autosave happens, but not the more drawn out stuttering behaivior.

We are still investigating another performance problem on some hardware, which will manifest where the game is getting into a state where performance drops to less than 5 fps and does not recover or crashes.

Next week we will be releasing the Source SDK, along with a surprise for the community.

SOURCE: http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news

Take Care.

AlaskanStewie · Nov 25, 2004

w00t, was going to post it myself...

Iced_Cooly · Nov 25, 2004

Am I the only one NOT getting the patch? I mean, I've closed and restarted Steam about 5 times now (the last time being just 10 seconds ago), and it's not giving me anything.

~Speed_Demon~ · Nov 25, 2004

Iced_Cooly said:
Am I the only one NOT getting the patch? I mean, I've closed and restarted Steam about 5 times now (the last time being just 10 seconds ago), and it's not giving me anything.

I did the same as well, but the patch is very small, and it quickly updated itself and I didn't notice anything after that.

Try playing now! I know I will! :cheers:

Take Care.

Stalk3r · Nov 25, 2004

I hope others won't suffer as I am but I've updated. and delted the altered config files to start fresh and guess what?

IT STILL STUTTERS!!!!

Shinobi · Nov 25, 2004

yup,,, I had some other programs I was closing so I didnt see if it downloaded the patch (I assumed it did) but it still stutters

Iced_Cooly · Nov 25, 2004

Mine is still stuttering too.

Gordon Bleu · Nov 25, 2004

It has seemed to fix my sound stuttering, which is good.

Is there any way to view patch information from STEAM? Update news seems to give no news on upcoming or current updates, so what's the point? Why should people have to hunt around to find answers when the content delivery system should be keeping people informed.

Shinobi · Nov 25, 2004

yeah that does seem silly

Iced_Cooly · Nov 25, 2004

I'm convinced it hasn't patched yet. I mean, when it did the small update on the 19th, I noticed that. When I opened it Steam it said it was updating. It hasn't done that for this patch yet, and I've been opening it and closing it like crazy.

Stalk3r · Nov 25, 2004

here we go again.

Concept · Nov 25, 2004

It's given me texture/text corruption ahoy. Great.

Iced_Cooly · Nov 25, 2004

Guys, how exactly is it patching? Does it bring up an "updating" dialogue when you open Steam? What's the deal?

~Speed_Demon~ · Nov 25, 2004

Iced_Cooly said:
Guys, how exactly is it patching? Does it bring up an "updating" dialogue when you open Steam? What's the deal?

In my case it, it didn't bring anything up because the patch is so small, I didn't even notice it until I checked my steam monitor. And yes, I did have the previous "play offline without your password patch." So that reafrims it, atleast for me.

Stuttering is gone for m! I can't believe it, I just bought HL2 last night, and now it works!!!

I have a geforce 4 ti 4200, runs great on my modest system.

Take Care.

Gordons_nan · Nov 25, 2004

Mine said it was updating STEAM when I double clicked the Steam icon but no mention of the HL2 being patched. I don't think Steam being updated has anything to do with the patch.

Pilchard · Nov 25, 2004

'cos this is a game update rather than a steam client update, it won't say "updating" when you fire it up. Mine updated in under 30 seconds and the only way to know is to check "monitor" in the session it updated.

If you restarted steam, you should be updated.

Stalk3r · Nov 25, 2004

theres no update speed deamon stop dreaming , how do I know this? do I know someting you guys dont? right click half-life 2 in steam and select update news. there are no updates. I also checked monitor and there is nothing.

arkanis · Nov 25, 2004

Gordon Bleu said:
It has seemed to fix my sound stuttering, which is good.

Do you own an ATI video card? The fix didn't fix anything at my end, so I am assuming it is my Nvidia card and the Nvidia bug.

~Speed_Demon~ · Nov 25, 2004

Stalk3r said:
theres no update speed deamon stop dreaming , how do I know this? do I know someting you guys dont? right click half-life 2 in steam and select update news. there are no updates. I also checked monitor and there is nothing.

Excuse me, I am not dreaming. HAlf-life 2 reverted back to 99% in my steam traffic monitor and quickly updated. I shut down steam again and opened it launched half-life 2 and everything works fine.

Just be sure and check with other before falsely accusing me.

Which is exactly why I don't post here often.

Take Care.

wasted · Nov 25, 2004

ati card
less stuttering
but

STILL STUTTERING LEFT!!!!!!!

Flyingbig · Nov 25, 2004

Mine has updated something, in monitor it says half-life 2 100 percent and days of defeat 100 percent (as it did when i was downloading cs and hl2). This is for real, something has updated, im off to check.

Zeus · Nov 25, 2004

Wow what a surprise...I have to validate AGAIN for the 4th time since I got it.

Flyingbig · Nov 25, 2004

If this is the patch we have been waiting for i'm going to ****ing lose it big time, there is no damn change in terms of the first part of the game (train station). It stuttered in all the same places. Well nearly, instead of stuttering twice when i get off the train it only stuttered once when they guy came on the video screen, wow thanks valve, made a world of difference :flame:

Concept · Nov 25, 2004

That's because it may still be a sound caching issue on some machines, where this patch may have been used to accomodate and ease the pressure somewhat perhaps.

It didn't work on mine, and has seemingly added a whole heap of problems too.

Gordon Bleu · Nov 25, 2004

As mentioned by others, when starting HL2 from steam, it updated as evidenced by the 100% in properties changing to something like 99%. Dial up users like me will notice small patches being downloaded.

arkanis said:
Do you own an ATI video card? The fix didn't fix anything at my end, so I am assuming it is my Nvidia card and the Nvidia bug.

Yes I do.

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matrix787 · Nov 25, 2004

valve punked us, stuttering is same if not WORSE, **** u valve, at least test it out extensively before saying you found a fix

Savagexii · Nov 25, 2004

Excellent news, this patch seems to have improved the stuttering i was experiencing, although it hasn't completely removed it, it's alot less noticeable and i can now play through the game again and actually enjoy all the set pieces without having to "wear the map in" first anymore.

stavroshamster · Nov 25, 2004

Erm, the patch made mine WORSE on the intro. Before I was just getting a slight stutter when G-man faded in and out, now it stutters a lot more and i get static noise. Great. My saved game in Ravenholm seems unaffected by the patch, however it is still stutterring when there is a big explosion. Dammit!

I have an ATI graphics card so it cant be a problem with nVidia graphics, although i have onboard nVidia sound? Whats going on?

A2597 · Nov 25, 2004

well shoot...

I had NO problems before, but after this patch, MASSIVE stuttering, sometimes lasting 20 or more seconds, and my load times trippled...

*Sigh* Valve, it isn't ready yet.

Edit: R9800Pro, 768MB Ram, SB Audigy 2 ZS, Athlon XP2600+, WinXP Pro

ericdrum · Nov 25, 2004

A2597 said:
well shoot...

I had NO problems before, but after this patch, MASSIVE stuttering, sometimes lasting 20 or more seconds, and my load times trippled...

*Sigh* Valve, it isn't ready yet.

Edit: R9800Pro, 768MB Ram, SB Audigy 2 ZS, Athlon XP2600+, WinXP Pro

If your are sure that the patch screwed you, you can simply change the cvar "mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware" to 0.

ptymona · Nov 25, 2004

Thanks Valve- I downloaded your stinkin' patch and now I can't play...

defraged, re-validated, and now I'm one highly p*ssed off person...I want HL2!

Amy

quik · Nov 25, 2004

Works great here, great improvement on FPS!

And no auto-save thingie too...

appoooh · Nov 25, 2004

For me, the patch remediates 90% of the problem and it's now unnoticeable unless you're specifically looking for it.

Don't forget to change all those stupid settings back to their defaults!

snd_async_fullyasync "0"
snd_mixahead "0.1"
sv_forcepreload "0"
cl_forcepreload "0"

mgdpublic · Nov 25, 2004

The patch doesn't work for me. This is bs.

mgdpublic · Nov 25, 2004

appoooh said:
For me, the patch remediates 90% of the problem and it's now unnoticeable unless you're specifically looking for it.

Don't forget to change all those stupid settings back to their defaults!

snd_async_fullyasync "0"
snd_mixahead "0.1"
sv_forcepreload "0"
cl_forcepreload "0"

How will these settings hurt?

26kmansp · Nov 25, 2004

This is not a patch, you guys. There is no patch. No game update. Read what they posted in the news section very carefully. It's an UPDATE on how to fix the stuttering, which is the result of texture thrashing, which can be SUPPOSEDLY fixed by going to that link they provided.
Everyone got their hopes up...

ChronosWing · Nov 25, 2004

stavroshamster said:
Erm, the patch made mine WORSE on the intro. Before I was just getting a slight stutter when G-man faded in and out, now it stutters a lot more and i get static noise. Great. My saved game in Ravenholm seems unaffected by the patch, however it is still stutterring when there is a big explosion. Dammit!

I have an ATI graphics card so it cant be a problem with nVidia graphics, although i have onboard nVidia sound? Whats going on?

Same here, it ran better before the patch.

ericdrum · Nov 25, 2004

26kmansp said:
This is not a patch, you guys. There is no patch. No game update. Read what they posted in the news section very carefully. It's an UPDATE on how to fix the stuttering, which is the result of texture thrashing, which can be SUPPOSEDLY fixed by going to that link they provided.
Everyone got their hopes up...

OMG. Yes there is a patch. Gary McTaggart stated so and you can go see the new cvar to boot. "mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware" was not present before this "release" as it states in the news story.

CSharkbytes · Nov 25, 2004

I don't think I was patched at all. I've looked in my monitor and it states "Steam is not currently updating any games" I checked 5 minutes, 1 hour and 1 day nothing. I've right clicked on HL2 hecked update news and the only update I have is dated 8/26/04. So no update for me. THe new site just links you to a doc on how to change your settings by lowing res and stuff. I did not buy this game to play it like it was 1999.

No patch yet.

Ennui · Nov 25, 2004

i bet the big suprise is either Day of Defeat Source or HL2DM.

Restart steam guys! PATCH IS OUT! Surprise next week from VALVe as well!

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