Problems upon reinstalling Half-Life 2!

DoomUK · 12-06-2004, 10:20 AM

OK, I uninstalled HL2 & Steam, deleted the Steam folder manually... and reinstalled them both...

Now I'm getting extremly poor performance in HL2, using exactly the same settings as before with the very same autoexec.cfg as I used before, as shown:-

mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 1

cl_forcepreload 1

sv_forcepreload 1

cl_ragdoll_collide 1

mat_compressedtextures 0

Lowering the settings etc doesn't help, I'm just basiclly getting p*** poor fps' for some bizarre reason. And yes, everything else is working fine...

Oh by the way, CS: Source doesn't even want to load up, it tells me either the servers are busy or it's not available in offline mode- but this is another matter.

Can anyone give me some suggestions here?

TheMajor · 12-06-2004, 10:36 AM

Why did u un-install HL2 and steam? Did you have any problems?

DoomUK · 12-06-2004, 10:55 AM

lol Major, Major, Major...

Well, I had the SDK, decided I didn't want it for various reasons... and somehow ended up deleting the whole lot... I should really pay more attention to what I'm clicking on

Oh btw, now I can't even start up steam, I just get an error message

TheMajor · 12-06-2004, 11:11 AM

Can you post the error messages.

I would uninstall everything and delete all Hl2, Steam and CS:S registry keys and see if that helps (backup registry first)

DoomUK · 12-06-2004, 12:17 PM

It's OK now mate, I reinstalled again and it's (oddly) running fine

12-06-2004, 10:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
DoomUK Ultra Techie Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 979	Problems upon reinstalling Half-Life 2! OK, I uninstalled HL2 & Steam, deleted the Steam folder manually... and reinstalled them both... Now I'm getting extremly poor performance in HL2, using exactly the same settings as before with the very same autoexec.cfg as I used before, as shown:- mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 1 cl_forcepreload 1 sv_forcepreload 1 cl_ragdoll_collide 1 mat_compressedtextures 0 Lowering the settings etc doesn't help, I'm just basiclly getting p*** poor fps' for some bizarre reason. And yes, everything else is working fine... Oh by the way, CS: Source doesn't even want to load up, it tells me either the servers are busy or it's not available in offline mode- but this is another matter. Can anyone give me some suggestions here? __________________ AMD X2 4400+ Toledo 1MB/Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe/2GB Kingston HyperX/SLI Gigabyte 7800 GTX 256MB/Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Plat w/ Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers /180GB Hitachi PATA/19\" AG Neovo F-419 LCD/OCZ PowerStream 600W PSU/WinXP Home SP2

12-06-2004, 10:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
DoomUK Ultra Techie Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 979	lol Major, Major, Major... Well, I had the SDK, decided I didn't want it for various reasons... and somehow ended up deleting the whole lot... I should really pay more attention to what I'm clicking on Oh btw, now I can't even start up steam, I just get an error message __________________ AMD X2 4400+ Toledo 1MB/Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe/2GB Kingston HyperX/SLI Gigabyte 7800 GTX 256MB/Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Plat w/ Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers /180GB Hitachi PATA/19\" AG Neovo F-419 LCD/OCZ PowerStream 600W PSU/WinXP Home SP2

12-06-2004, 12:17 PM	#5 (permalink)
DoomUK Ultra Techie Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 979	It's OK now mate, I reinstalled again and it's (oddly) running fine __________________ AMD X2 4400+ Toledo 1MB/Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe/2GB Kingston HyperX/SLI Gigabyte 7800 GTX 256MB/Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Plat w/ Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers /180GB Hitachi PATA/19\" AG Neovo F-419 LCD/OCZ PowerStream 600W PSU/WinXP Home SP2

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12-06-2004, 10:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
TheMajor PowerQuest / Opera Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 10,042	Why did u un-install HL2 and steam? Did you have any problems?

12-06-2004, 11:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
TheMajor PowerQuest / Opera Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 10,042	Can you post the error messages. I would uninstall everything and delete all Hl2, Steam and CS:S registry keys and see if that helps (backup registry first)