Ok... after reading a bit on the HL2 forums, etc... I found that whatever I downloaded off of the STEAM News page is NOT the fix I thought it was... must be some new updated validation BS... anyway... there are apparently 3 fixes, 2 of which they've solved the 3rd is nVidia-specific - which is what I have... the waiting game...
I downloaded the patch and I still have the stuttering problem. I have an Alienware Aurora ALX - AMD 64 FX-55, 2 GB RAM, 2 75GB Raptors in RAID 0 config, nVidia 6800 Ultra 256MB... I don't think it's hardware resource issue... is it? I love the game and continue to play it even with the stutter... but it's getting annoying. I need to try a clean reboot and play it that way with nothing running in the background - I don't have much running in the background now except for AOL IM, and MSN Msgr and some anti-virus stuff... which could be part of the problem? Anyone else download the "fix"?
I have 2 GB of RAM - had the stuttering problem - downloaded the so-called fix and it made it worse at first... I rebooted machine and it ran well for a while, but eventually the stuttering returned... probably not as bad, but still there for sure.
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OK - what I downloaded was not the fix... If found it on STEAM News - I guess it was some sort of validation update... whatever...
Ok... after reading a bit on the HL2 forums, etc... I found that whatever I downloaded off of the STEAM News page is NOT the fix I thought it was... must be some new updated validation BS... anyway... there are apparently 3 fixes, 2 of which they've solved the 3rd is nVidia-specific - which is what I have... the waiting game...
I downloaded the patch and I still have the stuttering problem. I have an Alienware Aurora ALX - AMD 64 FX-55, 2 GB RAM, 2 75GB Raptors in RAID 0 config, nVidia 6800 Ultra 256MB... I don't think it's hardware resource issue... is it? I love the game and continue to play it even with the stutter... but it's getting annoying. I need to try a clean reboot and play it that way with nothing running in the background - I don't have much running in the background now except for AOL IM, and MSN Msgr and some anti-virus stuff... which could be part of the problem? Anyone else download the "fix"?
I have 2 GB of RAM - had the stuttering problem - downloaded the so-called fix and it made it worse at first... I rebooted machine and it ran well for a while, but eventually the stuttering returned... probably not as bad, but still there for sure.