Messed up textures in Half-Life 2 on ATI Radeon 9600 video card

Tek7 (Legacy)

Tek7 (Legacy)

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I started up Half-Life 2 tonight and was very impressed with my new video card's processing power. Then, I got off the train, walked into the train station, and noticed several textures were messed up. Like-ah-so:



I have ATI's Catalyst drivers installed, version 5.5. Grr. What do you all recommend to help fix this problem?
 
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whats ur resolution set at, when did u last download the new drivers, and is verticle sync on, and ask hescominsoon cuz he would prolly know more. lol
 
what version of directx is the game running on? You can lower it with the command mat_dxlevel 00 if the game is using directx 9.0 replace the "00" with 81 or 80. Im not sure if this is causing it but you can try it. Also, have you looked on valves support site?
 
Hy Tek, i have the exact same video card and it runs it great so its got to be something on your comp, update or something, but it does that when i play BF:2, but not in hl2, its weird. I have no clue how to fix it, i am trying to find that out for bf:2. In BF:2 it seemed to go away when i turned down the graphics, my friend recommended me to turn the graphics ALL the way down, and then move them up one by one, and when you move one up and the problem occurs then just keep that one on low. If it doesn't do that when they are on low. but besides that i dont know...probally just better off going to valve about the problem.
 
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Hm. I somehow missed the release of version 5.6 of the ATI Catalyst drivers. I guess they came out the day of or the day after I compiled my driver packages for my primary PC.

I upgraded my drivers to version 5.6 last night and everything's groovy in-game now. But when I exited the game, my whole screen was funky. It's nothing a quick refresh didn't fix, but it's still a bit disturbing, especially with all my recent computer drama.

I'll load up the game and exit it again to see if I get the same graphical glitch.
 
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I'll load up the game and exit it again to see if I get the same graphical glitch.
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It gave the same graphical glitch, but this time, it only applied to the Trillian chat window I had open. So it seems that the current drivers have trouble re-drawing the last active window before Half-Life 2 is loaded. Oh, and the same thing happened with Counter-Strike: Source (last active window looks funky when I exit the game).

A quick refresh fixes the problem, so I'm not too concerned about that. Still, that's pretty weird. Is this the kind of thing that ATI users have come to expect from their video card drivers?

EDIT: I would post a screenshot of the glitch, but when I hit PrintScreen and try to paste the clipboard into IrFanView or Paint Shop Pro, I get an error message saying that the image can not be pasted. Weird.

Another concern: When I was playing through Half-Life 2 and came to the loading point (early in the game, after that guy says, "Get in here!" and you rush toward the rooftop), the game locked up at the "Loading" screen. The next time I ran to the same point, the next level loaded in only a few seconds. Very strange.

So far, everything I've experienced sounds like a driver, and not a hardware, issue. Which is good. Because I'm really, really tired of computer problems right now. :mad:

EDIT: By the way, I notice a significant difference between my old video card and my new one, more than I had expected. When I first loaded up the game and G-Man was in my face, I was stunned at the realism of the graphics. Most impressive.
 
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Tek7 said:
When I first loaded up the game and G-Man was in my face, I was stunned at the realism of the graphics. Most impressive.
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Yeah, you'll be impressed beyond that, I'm sure. :cool: :cool:
 
I had the same problem in BF:2 yu did before you updated and i just updated and tried it and it went away.....but i have the same card, and i never had any troubles with cs source or hl2
 
Check the videocard drivers, ati has lots of bugs every version, look around and pick the right one. I think 1024x768 has some display corruption for the newest one, if i'm not mistaken.
 
I'm impressed your playing HL2 now when TheElite, gave you the game when it was released...last year...

The topic of; if Tek7 and Freeman looked alike.
 
Judging by the thread, Elihu gave Half-Life 2 to Tek.
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01-09-2005, 10:04 PM

JANUARY!!!???

Not even a year...

Everyones First Letter Handles and Same Number Letters are always confusing:

Elihu = 5 letters
Elite = 5 letters
SirThom = 7 letters
Shiesty = 7 letters

Curious, anyone else using a 256 MB Video Card than a 128 MB Video Card, anyone?
 
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