weird graphic problem

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r3drum

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Hello,

I got a graphic problem with hl2 engine. Maybe there is already such a thread but i couldn't find it. When i start hl2 singleplayer i dont see the walls of the train, but the fps is ok. Then the part where you get checked and you friend takes you to a special room my fps drop too 1 or even 0. On css i have the same problems. I dont see walls and really low fps. The cpu or the gpu aren't overheated or overclocked. Also i got a lot of texture problems.
Spec's:
msi kt-600 sr
Athlon xp 3000+ (333 fsb and normal multiplyer)(barton)
2x 512 ddr-ram pc 3200 twinmos
western digital 1600 s-ata 160gb 8mb cache
ati radeon 9800 pro at newest omega driver.
trust 5.1 pci soundcard
Since i got this setup i got some serious graphics problems
I first had other specs:
msi kt-600 sr
Athlon xp 3000+ (333 fsb and normal multiplyer)(barton)
2x 512 ddr-ram pc 3200 twinmos
60gb ide maxtor disk
ati radeon 9800 pro at newest omega driver.
onboard sound
On this setup i didnt got any problems but i do can remove the soundcard from my previous steup if that is the problem but i cant remove the harddisk.
The problem started since i got the new soundcard and the new harddisk. I did a low-level format on the harddisk and tried ntfs and fat32. Nothing helped. Maybe it is the soundcard? I dont know can anyone help me?

BTW hl2 settings:
Everything adivesed by the engine itself:
specs7dp.jpg

Texture problem it doesnt show fps or any other info:
weirdtextures7xh.jpg

LOL!! when i went back to the game (alt-tab) my textures where really ok and the fps too :|:
weirdtextures28sc.jpg

another example:
weirdtextures39gh.jpg

after alt-tab:
weirdtextures48ed.jpg

another example:
weirdtextures50bi.jpg

after alt-tab:
weirdtextures68tp.jpg


So when writing this thread i found out that alt-tab solves the problem temperory, but does anyone knows a other solution? Or do i just need to alt-tab ones in a minute? :p
 
well i always played with the omega driver and that should not be the problem. I also tried the official driver from ati but got same problems.
 
Seems like some kind of loading error since it's there after alt-tab.
I think theres some kind of switch you can add like -forcepreload or something like that.
 
the problem is solved when i press alt-tab so the problem is before that
 
What other games you got installed. I remember getting major graphics problems when I installed Sim City 4. Something to do with the game installing a corrupt version of DirectX 9 onto the system.
 
PickledGecko said:
What other games you got installed. I remember getting major graphics problems when I installed Sim City 4. Something to do with the game installing a corrupt version of DirectX 9 onto the system.

well i just got windows installed so only game is steam. But today ill try remove soundcard and let you guys know if that worked.
 
chewyxx said:
Hahahhah At Alyx

I was home-alone and playing at 2 at night with 5.1 speakers at full sound. I really scared the hell out of me :p it looked freaky with the teeth and stuff :p
 
wow that's brilliant
sucks having that problem though
maybe not enough ram for textures or too many background programs running
 
but is it possible that is the hd? couse i got the problem since i got the hd but i am not sure. It is s-ata and the s-ata controller is onboard.
 
i found something else weird. Css was 97% completed and hl2 94% maybe that was a problem. Also it was not set to: "always keep this game up to date". I did do that now and it is ready in half an hour. Maybe that was the problem.
 
It is fixed now, so the topic can be closed. The problem was i had sound en lan disabled in bios. After i enabled those things (and still using pci-lan and pci-sound) the game works perfectly. Thanks a lot for (trying :p) to help me.
 
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