Can no longer play Half-Life 2 now that I installed the 4.11 Cats!

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pw

Hi,

The game starts breaking up at the Valve logo screen and then it
freezes with a white screen.

Any ideas how to fix this?


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pw said:
Hi,

The game starts breaking up at the Valve logo screen and then it
freezes with a white screen.

Any ideas how to fix this?


-pw
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No idea, but try the 4.12 betas. They have tweaks for HL2 and work just
fine for me...
 
Top Secret said:
Link please.
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Well, since you asked so nicely, you used to be able to get them from ATI
and Station Drivers, but it seems not so any more. You can get them from
Guru3d still.
 
Nerdillius Maximus said:
Well, since you asked so nicely, you used to be able to get them from ATI
and Station Drivers, but it seems not so any more. You can get them from
Guru3d still.
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Update: you USED to be able to get them from Guru 3d. Seems like link is
down. Wonder what's up? Might try a Google search, I've already got them
meself, not using them ATM because I prefer Omega's set...
 
pw said:
Hi,

The game starts breaking up at the Valve logo screen and then it
freezes with a white screen.

Any ideas how to fix this?


-pw
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I had a problem with corrupted graphics and lock up that sounds similar.

Found something on the Steam News site about an update to the Steam client
to fix corrupted cache files, was posted today. Followed the instructions,
solved the problem. Could be it.

-- Rev
 
pw said:
No idea, but try the 4.12 betas. They have tweaks for HL2 and work just
fine for me...
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Okay, I will give them a shot. I ended up going back to the 4.10
drivers that Hercules has had on their site since last February (Guess
they have given up supporting my 9700 Pro!) and the game is back to
normal.

Funny - after installing the original drivers I had when I installed
the game, the game/steam told me my drivers are out of date and gave
me a link to the 4.11 drivers on ATI's site! I didn't get that
message when I installed the game!

Thanks!


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LymanAlpha wrote:




This is the variant that requires .NET installed? Is there a 4.12 beta that
doesn't have the Control Centre stuff?
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With the 4.12 beta I had to actually specifically download and reinstall
the control center separately.
So the download link at above is just the old CP.
 
LymanAlpha said:
With the 4.12 beta I had to actually specifically download and
reinstall the control center separately.
So the download link at above is just the old CP.
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Thanks, I'll give them a go then. =:-)

Right, time to take a complete backup of my system drive....
 
I had a problem with corrupted graphics and lock up that sounds similar.

Found something on the Steam News site about an update to the Steam client
to fix corrupted cache files, was posted today. Followed the instructions,
solved the problem. Could be it.

-- Rev
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Do you have a link to that? I just went to the Steam news page and
don't see that mentioned.


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Do you have a link to that? I just went to the Steam news page and
don't see that mentioned.
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Right click on your steam icon and select NEWS.

Pluvious
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Thanks. I installed the 4.11 ATI drivers *without* the Control Manager
and the game works fine now!


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