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Half Life 2 Stuttering Bug Official
sinner0423 writes "Due to recent complaints on several forums, Steampowered announced they are working on a fix to this stuttering problem in Half Life 2. Usually, a game bug isn't news-worthy, but the sporadic nature of this bug makes me wonder - who else has problems with HL2 pausing/skipping? This site outlines the problem certain users are having in a very clear & concise manner, and also includes some stopgap solutions from Erik Johnson & other Valve employees."
My pirated copy with the stream crack works fine.
Half-Life 2, not Half Life. Sorry, I am being picky. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
discrimina a a tion !
I also have a bad stu u utter !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
A bug in Half Life 2 is perhaps the biggest problem being suffered by the human race in our time. Perhaps every government worldwide, every corporation, every organization, and every individual should stop everything they are doing at this moment, so that all the resources available to mankind can be allocated to correcting the bug in Half Life 2. Otherwise, we are doomed to destruction.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
if Half-Live 2 was Open Sour.... hey, wait a minute!
Do you turn around and blame Ford when you get ticketed for speeding 30mph over the limit? Do you turn around and blame Wal-Mart when you burn your the chicken you were making for dinner? Do you blame the local hardware store when you hammer a nail through a water pipe?
Yes.
A word of caution from a long-time user of Slashdot... Don't ever make mention of taking hands off of keyboards or mice when posting about enjoying something.
What? News? I thought the point of Slashdot was to post as much random crap as possible and see how much of the internet you could take out.
Valve's Gabe Newell gave the following press release:
'W-w-w-w-we ap-p-p-pologise for any t-t-t-t-trouble that has been caused-d-d-d by this b-b-b-b-fnargen-b-b-b-b-bug, we are l-l-l-labia-l-l-looking into this and will fix this problem as soon p-p-p-p-p-possible. CUNT!'
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
And then the other walls you are bitching at will finally load when you crash into them!
Friends help you move...
REAL Friends help you move dead bodies... ^_^
that you can ditch the water skimmer and then get stuck after playing for 20min and finding a point where you need it but cant go back to get it
:)
God damn! You, too? That pissed me off so bad. I actually got all the way to the ramp attached to the elevator with pulley cables and washing machine puzzle before I got stuck and it said, "A.I Disabled" after screwing around for a while trying to figure something out. It appeared no matter what game I loaded from there on, even if I started a new game. Backing up the savegames and reinstalling did the trick, though. After starting a new game from that chapter, I had a pretty big smack on the forehead after I saw the swamp boat RIGHT THERE! Did I actually miss that?
I was having too much fun in the beginning of the game to think about the tedium of walking the super long distances to get there. I assumed I just broke the game, because that appears to be something I do a lot. I've broken Painkiller, Star Trek: Elite Force 2, Ultima 7 (not hard to do, but I didn't do anything wrong) and Strife to a point where I can't continue in the game. Plus, I sooner assumed the helicopter and radiation sewage crap was just an obnoxious point in the game rather than needing a special tool to get past it (think really unfair games, like Contra Adventure where there's three hard bosses in a row). I had already spent a half-hour trying to play lumberjack with the blue plastic drums getting past the first radiation pool.
If you ever need a playtester, I'm your guy, as I seem to be really good at breaking software
As for the stuttering, I'm pissed that I had to switch back from my kX Project Drivers on my SBLive! Value back to the mediocre (but reliable) official drivers. I hope any fixes that come out will remedy it.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Thats not a bug. Thats the "Oh, and remember to get up and stretch every so often so your butt doesn't fall asleep".
At least thats how I started responding to them after playing for four hours.