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Valve admits Half-Life 2 stuttering issue, promises patch soon
Developer acknowledges frame-rate problems experienced by many players of the shooter, says a fix is on the way.
Since its release last week, Half-Life 2 has been scooped up many-a-PC gamer. However, many of those same gamers have encountered recurring problem with the long-awaited shooter. As conveniently summed up on blep.net, many Half-Life 2 players have "characterized by a sudden massive drop in frame rate when turning corners or moving into new areas of the game." Said frame-rate drop is "usually accompanied by looping or stuttering sound."
Given the high quality of the majority of Half-Life 2's graphics, this glitch has many-a-PC gamer more than a little irked. After dodging the issue for a while, Valve confirmed on numerous forums that it is working to release a patch as quickly as they can. (Or as quickly as they can stuffed with turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.). The fix was supposed to be released this week, but the series of bugs causing the problem are proving elusive to stamp out, so expect it next week.
Unsurprisingly, Valve's Doug Lombardi told GameSpot that when the stutter patch does arrive, it will most likely "will be [available via] Steam only." However, if the patch is made available to other sites, it will be on GameSpot DLX as soon as possible.
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/11/24/news_6113999.html
Developer acknowledges frame-rate problems experienced by many players of the shooter, says a fix is on the way.
Since its release last week, Half-Life 2 has been scooped up many-a-PC gamer. However, many of those same gamers have encountered recurring problem with the long-awaited shooter. As conveniently summed up on blep.net, many Half-Life 2 players have "characterized by a sudden massive drop in frame rate when turning corners or moving into new areas of the game." Said frame-rate drop is "usually accompanied by looping or stuttering sound."
Given the high quality of the majority of Half-Life 2's graphics, this glitch has many-a-PC gamer more than a little irked. After dodging the issue for a while, Valve confirmed on numerous forums that it is working to release a patch as quickly as they can. (Or as quickly as they can stuffed with turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.). The fix was supposed to be released this week, but the series of bugs causing the problem are proving elusive to stamp out, so expect it next week.
Unsurprisingly, Valve's Doug Lombardi told GameSpot that when the stutter patch does arrive, it will most likely "will be [available via] Steam only." However, if the patch is made available to other sites, it will be on GameSpot DLX as soon as possible.
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/11/24/news_6113999.html
