Half-Life, menu back to game probs

[dneal]

I can not get back into the game when I exit to the menu in Half-Life. I have to quit the entire program and restart. It almost looks like the engine is minimized when I try to get back in, I see desktop and there's a bar in the top left that says Half-Life........

Using drivers 5.52, G400 Vanillia (not o/c)


Pentium III 600
192MB RAM
SBLive Value


No probs in other games, just this. Seems like an OpenGL problem. My friends with Athlons and TNT2 Ultras dont have this prob.

????



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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 160/200, Creative SBLive Value, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC701A ATX 300watt TurboCool PC Power & Cooling PS, Panasonic Panasync S17

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I had that problem when I ran it in d3d but in ogl it's fine
jim

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Abit BE6 with P3 500 @ 5*124=620
14.6 gb Maxtor ata66 and 128mb ram
G400 vanilla 32mb @ 168/210
Sblive with Altec Lansing speaker combo
384k DSL and Realtek nic
Windows 98se with DX7a
3dMark2000 = 2956
Worn out reset button :O)

[TTCharon]

Well! I'm having it in both D3D AND OpenGL!!!
Although it happens more often with D3D

[dneal]

I always have the problem. It doesnt matter which mode, D3D or OpenGL.


Why-o-Why does it do this??????????


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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 160/200, Creative SBLive Value, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC701A ATX 300watt TurboCool PC Power & Cooling PS, Panasonic Panasync S17

[Kruzin]

I don't get that problem, using the 5.52 driver (full OGL ICD - not using turboGL for this game).

But I also rarely use the menus, so I don't give it many chances to happen....

[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 19 April 2000).]

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I also don't use the TGL for HL
jim

[antdude]

No problems for me with and without TurboGL drivers. I have been using the lastest Matrox drivers as well.

[dneal]

I don't use the TurboGL, but when I have it still gives me the problem. I don't think the TurboGL works well with Half-Life, it has lower low-end framerates it seems....

I don't understand why some are and some arent' having this problem. I have had this since I have used Half-Life with my G400. I have reinstalled Windows over the time that I've had the game...it has always done this.

Basically, if i go back to the menus from the game I CAN NOT get back into the game without either changing resolution or restarting the game.




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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 160/200, Creative SBLive Value, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC701A ATX 300watt TurboCool PC Power & Cooling PS, Panasonic Panasync S17

[absalom]

With turbogl and half-life, I get an ultra swap-fest with what your describing. If I let it munch the hard drive for over 3 minutes, I'll finally get back into the game. But hell, when your actually connected to a server, you've timed out by then. A totally pointless situation. I just end the multiplayer session or exit half life to avoid this. Best option for me is to not use TGL at all.

[DeFrag]

I used to get the same problem. Someone on the forums (Kruzin prolley) suggested that I take the opengl32.dll (TurboGL) that the TurboGL utility puts in your C:\Sierra\Half-Life folder and put it in my gldrv folder then rename it to turbogl.dll then add the line "turbogl.dll Matrox TurboGL" to the drvmap.txt file that is in the gldrv folder. Then start Half-Life go to Video modes and one the side bar where it says "Default" choose "Matrox TurboGL"

well crap on me. It worked. And Ive been playing ever since. Thanks Kruz ;p

-DeFrag

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Tekram P6B40-A4X
Intel 440BX Chipset
128 Meg 100mhz RAM
Pentium III 450mhz
Matrox Millenium G400 32m
DirectX 7.0a
SB Live! Value
Windows98 SE
300w power supply
IRQ's

[Kruzin]

Fraid I can't take credit for that little tip.

As I said above, I don't use TurboGL for this game.

[Johnny Ray]

Kruzin,

Just curious, and maybe this could help us - say you join a game on a server, and it turns out to be a bad choice (bad lag, players, etc.), how do you quit that server and join another? What I, and apparently Dustin, do is hit the escape key to bring up the server selection menu, and then the problem begins (must exit and restart game, if lucky... if not, hard crash). Do you just switch by typing the address from the HL command line or something? How do you then get the current server info (# of players, map, etc.)?

Thanks for the info.

John

[Kruzin]

I pull down the console and type quit when I hit a bad server

I do not use the in-game finder to locate servers, in HL or any other game. I find my games with a freeware utility called PingTool www.pingtool.com

It's far more flexible than any in-game finder, and works on almost every shooter out there...

[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 20 April 2000).]

[Rags]

Unlike Kruzin, I do use the menu at times, and do not get the problems if I have my desktop set to 1024x768 and the game resolution set to 1024x768 or higher.

Rags

[nehalmistry]

i have the same problem... but with a G200... i have my desktop to 1024 but it doesnt make a difference what resolution i play in... i still cant press escape.

This only happens to me in OpenGL mode and when i play in D3D mode i get the problem where i cant see the scores(its all blurred out)

It seems that matrox doesnt test its drivers well... they should at least try it out with the most popular games such as halflife/unreal/q3 etc...... instead of rushing the release

i know ppl that have nvidia/voodoo... and they say they never have problems...