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Half- Life 2 Stutter Solved

Posted by Zonk on from the texture-loads-lead-to-grumpy-gamers dept.

As a followup to the story on Saturday about the HL2 stutter bug, Voodoo Extreme has news that a patch is on the way, with an ETA of tomorrow. "A patch will be coming for this issue that will load all of the required textures into video memory on level load, rather than doing it during game play."

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  1. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope someone will make a torrent for it, for all the people that don't have a legal copy.

    1. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Sinner!

  2. This hurts the computer industry by 2bluemike · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have preferred to have them say "Oh, the only way to fix it is by upgrading to 64-bit AMD, 3GB RAM, etc. etc." My stock would have gone up :-/

  3. They planned this all along by 2bluemike · · Score: 5, Funny

    STEAM: Still Time Enough After its on the Market

  4. St-st-stutt-tt-ttering? by bryhhh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wh-wh-wh-what st-st-st-st-stutt-tt-tt-ering?

  5. Re:Great. by Trikenstein · · Score: 2, Funny
    (No matter, I'll be playing parts of it over again anyway...)

    I remember keeping a save of the original H-L for months.
    It was right before the ninja/assissins.
    I'd load up the game, go into god mode and crowbar the frak out of them.
    Great stress relief after a bad day.

  6. Torrent: It's not just for pirates anymore by superultra · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the patch is distributed by Steam, legit users will need the torrent as well!

  7. Re:Optimization gone awry? by Dmala · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have to object to your rule. As a QA Engineer, hasty, ill-conceived optimizations provide me with job security.