new comer to half life (hehe) and G200 questions

[arbymo]

Hi guys .. just installed Half life TFC and the latest patch (1.1.0.1)
I'm using win98 SE and G200 8 SD with PD 6.14
1st: the end or home keys doesn't centre my position ! anyone know a solution for this ?
2nd: i used to use some special autoexec.cfg file in quake 2 to get higher gamma and brightness
(set intensity "2.0"
set vid_gamma "2.5"
set gl_modulate "2.5"
set gl_saturate "0" )
.. are there similar settings for half life ?
3rd: how can i measure my FPS in half life ? they mention a gauge command but they don't mention what are the demo maps names.
4th: my desktop is set at 1024x768x32, and i noticed the game run in 16 bit colors . is there a 32 bit mode ?

I play at 1024x768x16@85Hz, i use MGATweek to overclock to 220-225, and MTSTU to set the OGL settings for speed.
The game performance isn't bad, but not really smooth and i don't really wanna play at 800x600.
Are there any recommended tweeks or settings?

my system is a celeron 300A@450 and 192 PC-100 ram on a gigabyte 6BXE mobo.



[This message has been edited by arbymo (edited 20 October 2000).]

[Kruzin]

The site below has all of the variables for you to tweak your config, and the command line switches as well. I think the 32bit switch is to just tag a -32bpp on your command line, but I would suggest leaving it in 16bit, and setting your desktop to 16bit when you play. A G200 is not going to run well at 32bit with most games.
http://halflife.pcgame.com/console/index.html

[Alec]

And also not very good at 1024x768, either. 800x600 is the optimal balance between image quality and speed in the G200 department.

[arbymo]

Thanx for the link Kruzin.
I don't really wanna play at 32 bit, I was just wondering coz quake2 run at what's ur current desktop colors are and i had to reduce my desktop to 16 prior to run quake2.
While in half life it run at 16 even if my desktop is at 32 bit.
Alec : yeah 800x600 was my sweet spot in quake2. and it was great
anyway .. thanx for the info guys.