strange graphics glitch! HELP!!! SWEET!

[reznor9]

:afro: my setup is this
Dell 4600 Pentium 4 at 3.0GHz with hyperthreading Technology
I have 1MB of cache
1024 MB of ram
ATI Radion 9800 Pro Video card
DirectX9.0
and I think thats all you need to know so far

so anyways, heres the problem... I play at the recommended specs of high everything pretty much, and the game most of the time looks fanfrickentastic, but when I get to certain places, the landscape gets all garbled like Im walking through a shiot blizzard. all I can do is look away in another direction or at the floor for the problem to go away, but when I look in that direction again it still gets messed up. What can I do. BTW here are some pics of what Im talking about.
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/one.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/two.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/tree.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/roar.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/rive.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/sics.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/reven.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/rate.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/phelly2/rine.jpg

:sniper: so help me kill this problem

 

[Bopomofo]

eeewww. Kind of spoils the illusion when you can see all the props, doesn't it? Looks like the Truman show with the scenery collapsing ;-)

Anyhow, let us know what version of video driver you're running (please don't say it's the one that shipped with your Dell)...

Also, is that the GPU that yor Dell came with, or did you upgrade anything? And have you overclocked? You're dropping triangles, which usually means driver problems or overheating. [the GPU goes into a controlled shutdown when it gets hot]

I've seen the odd flicker like this, but only for a few frames, and in the distance. I'd hate to see what you're seeing.

 

[busta1532]

What's wrong with using a driver that came with the dell?? I'm running the NVidia 6800 256 mb video card. Haven't modified ne drivers or the video card itself. Half Life 2 is running at 1112 x 812??? some number like that but everything is perfect.

 

[Venmoch]

Have you tried vaildating your HL2 files?

 

[destrukt]

sweet ?

 

[reznor9]

eeewww. Kind of spoils the illusion when you can see all the props, doesn't it? Looks like the Truman show with the scenery collapsing ;-)

Anyhow, let us know what version of video driver you're running (please don't say it's the one that shipped with your Dell)...

Also, is that the GPU that yor Dell came with, or did you upgrade anything? And have you overclocked? You're dropping triangles, which usually means driver problems or overheating. [the GPU goes into a controlled shutdown when it gets hot]

I've seen the odd flicker like this, but only for a few frames, and in the distance. I'd hate to see what you're seeing.

I upgraded my graphics card... the one that came with my dell was decent, but couldnt give me full graphics on either farcry or doom 3, so I got the ati radeon 9800 Pro... I did upgrade the drivers too a while back. Right now Im running version 6.14.10.6497...

I dont know a hell of a lot about overheating or overclocking so please explain this to me. I will tell you though that It seems to only do this in specific areas... so its not like I can save at that spot, reboot and load again because it will still be screwed up. I get no slowdown in my frame rate, and it seems to happen in areas that are very vast and have a distant horizen. Usually when it happens in the game, which is not very often, it is only for a very short area, and once i run past it, the game goes back to normal, but if I turn around to look at it, it goes funky. But this area Im at now is a bit larger and it is a bit more annoying to get through it.
thanks for your interest and keep the solutional juices flowing

 

[reznor9]

Have you tried vaildating your HL2 files?

what do you mean? Im playing half life on a seperate computer, which at this time doesnt have the internet anymore. So if validating requires you to long on to steam, then no I havent.. that is unless it was done at the time of installation without my knowledge(at which point I had the internet, since you need it to install hl2)...

 

[reznor9]

I updated my graphics drivers to 6.14.10.6505 and still nothing... any other ideas?

 

[Chris D]

what do you mean? Im playing half life on a seperate computer, which at this time doesnt have the internet anymore. So if validating requires you to long on to steam, then no I havent.. that is unless it was done at the time of installation without my knowledge(at which point I had the internet, since you need it to install hl2)...

Steam works on a distributed file system. Part of this file system are the GCF cache files. In the cache files are all the files required to play the game.

Have you ever downloaded a .zip file? It's almost exactly like that. Have you ever downloaded a .zip file a found it didn't work and you had to download it again? Yep, it works a bit like that too.

Sometimes during an update the files won't update properly. Rather than downloading the whole game again though you can validate your cache files.

Steam will compare your cache files with the one on the content server. It will pass over all the files that match, but will download any files it finds that are missing, broken or out of date.

You can validate Half-Life 2 by following this link. You need to be connected to Steam and be connected to the internet.

Hope that helps.

 

[reznor9]

YOU DA MAN CHRIS! :bounce: YOU DA MAN BABY! :cheers: I validated the files like you said and it works prefectly now. Thanks a million.... and thank you to all the other people that offered me advice. It is much appreciated. You all rule

Steam works on a distributed file system. Part of this file system are the GCF cache files. In the cache files are all the files required to play the game.

Have you ever downloaded a .zip file? It's almost exactly like that. Have you ever downloaded a .zip file a found it didn't work and you had to download it again? Yep, it works a bit like that too.

Sometimes during an update the files won't update properly. Rather than downloading the whole game again though you can validate your cache files.

Steam will compare your cache files with the one on the content server. It will pass over all the files that match, but will download any files it finds that are missing, broken or out of date.

You can validate Half-Life 2 by following this link. You need to be connected to Steam and be connected to the internet.

Hope that helps.