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."

Comments

Tha at..s jjjust t..

[bushboy]

discrimina a a tion !

I also have a bad stu u utter !

Re:The Irony of Half-Life 2

[Tokerat]

Suppose someone tries to install this game in the combat relaxation tent in the middle of Iraq so our troops can play. They can't install!

Nothing like guns and violence to take your mind off the war you're fighting in...

Re:Hmmm....

[Zorilla]

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.