Half-Life, menu back to game probs

[Rags]

nehalmistry,

I have a VooDoo3 3000, and playing HL, I got errors when switching maps--strange texture corruptions, I used to have an nVidia TNT2 (V770), and it would crash my system when I had EAX enabled and would exit to menu and move to a different server with the same map (all on HL/TFC). EVERY card maker has driver problems.

Rags

[nehalmistry]

Rags,

maybe all cards do have SOME problems, but what i meant was that matrox's cards seem to have more problems then other cards, i have had 4 matrox cards in my life, all of them has given me problems.

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P5A-B AMD K6-300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset

[dneal]

Well...anyways....

[dneal]

Well...anyways....

Matrox should be able to reproduce this menu problem. I've tried pretty much everything. It's a pretty obvious problem.

No help:
Desktop resolution changing
D3D/OGL in game
different game rez's
reinstall of WINDOWS!


Anyone try some different drivers? I've been using 5.52, does 5.41 do this? 5.30?

It would be great if this could be fixed somehow........



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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD, Quantum Fireball Plus KA, Quantum Fireball ST,
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

[FactOX]

Had same main problem, I believe directX was a culprit, using 7.0 with PD5.52, everything is phat and happy now

550e, win98, asusp3b-f, 256pc133

[Smiff]

Hehe, Defrag, that was my little tip! Glad to help

Oh I haven't posted here for ages simply 'cos everything's been running sweet! I've been getting into the wonderfull world of PC video, and wow, i've just realized, Dualhead is soo damn groovy! All hail Matrox!

[DeFrag]

Oh sorry Smiff ;p Thanks for the tip! It seems like most people getting this problem have a SB Live card of some sort. Is there anyone not using a SB Live! or Soundblaster card that is getting this problem?

-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

[Dyre]

My only problem is that when i leave to menu then go back to game i can't read text. Its all garbled.

I use PD5.52 no TGL and Dx7a...

[Raptor^]

There was a bug in the previous versions of HL that meant certain gfx cards would not quit back to the menu from OpenGL 640x480.

This was made into a much worse bug, whereby the HL engine appears to minimise or go otherwise screwy on a variety of hardware and resolutions when resuming a game by the latest patch... handy huh?

The game is still running, sometimes pressing esc and hitting resume from the menu lots of times will fix it.

The screwed up text thing can be fixed by messing around with the gl_texturemode settings, dunno why, just change them lots and the text fixes itself (I was experimenting on an ATI Rage pro to try and get some performance and found this out, it works on my G400 MAX too)

It happens to me in Win2000 using PD 5.03, but not in 98 using 5.52.

Also Win200 doesnt switch res when I enter the game first time, so I end up playing in a window all the time, any ideas??

I'm running an SB card, but its an ancient SB16 which I doubt is causing any probs at all.


[This message has been edited by Raptor^ (edited 01 May 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Raptor^ (edited 01 May 2000).]

[dneal]

anyone try not patchin the game to the latest version?


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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD, Quantum Fireball Plus KA, Quantum Fireball ST,
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

[Raptor^]

Yeah, it used to work fine for me be4 the patch and now it doesn't:P

[RaveN]

I have that same prob with my G200 and G400Max.


My machine is an dual celeron 595 with an BP6
256 meg ram and a hard drive at 35gb

[FactOX]

Have had some problems , trying to hit tildale and hit esc by accident, go back and readouts of scores (like when u hit tab) and such are garbled and fuzzy, found that typing "vid_restart" or something sim works to clear up in most games.

[Phips]

Dyre,
I have not played HL in a while but last time I tried, switching the desktop to 16bits color did take care of the ''coming back from menu scramble mess''.