Half-Life 2 Beta General Technical Problems

[FILipKOS1337]

I use LeakNet and it's still blurry and when i add the blurry texture fix it just doesn't launch i press hl2.exe and it still does not work. The LeakNet i am using is leaknet4484.7z

Try to use the latest leaknet version.

[e3_futcha]

Hello. As some of you know, the game has an infamous bug which causes the textures to be blurry when you have too much VRAM. According to this web page, the bug can be fixed by hacking shaderapidx9.dll "to always return 0x7F000000 as a result" for texture allocation in VRAM. What does "0x7F000000" mean? 16GB?
For the hack to work, you also need to delete the vidcfg.bin file. What is the purpose of this file?

[Cvoxalury]

Hello. As some of you know, the game has an infamous bug which causes the textures to be blurry when you have too much VRAM. According to this web page, the bug can be fixed by hacking shaderapidx9.dll "to always return 0x7F000000 as a result" for texture allocation in VRAM. What does "0x7F000000" mean? 16GB?
For the hack to work, you also need to delete the vidcfg.bin file. What is the purpose of this file?

It is not 16 gb, I believe that would return 2032 megabytes of VRAM. The whole problem arises from Valve using a signed int to detect the amount of video memory, which, if it exceeds the value of 2 gigabytes, the detect value overflows and the game thinks you have no memory, and sets the settings to minimum.

You don't really have to hack anything. You can just download the program called dgVoodoo which is used for *a lot* of old games to make them compatible with DirectX 11/12 devices.

It works as an emulator that makes the game think you have a reasonably old videocard with reasonably low amount of memory.

It comes with a guide and it's prett straightforward to use, the instructions for using it with HL2 beta (or HL2 2004 release as well) aren't anything special.

[e3_futcha]

Alright. Thanks for the info. Now that I count the bytes in decimal instead of octal I arrive closer to 2GB. My bad.

Since the hack works, I don't have a need for dgVoodoo.

Do you know about the file vidcfg.bin?

[Cvoxalury]

Do you know about the file vidcfg.bin?

All it does is store your GPU's GUID and the amount of its memory (be it correctly or incorrectly detected). Stored so that after it first detects the amount of memory it won't need to repeat it (unless vidcfg.bin is deleted).

Excerpt from materialsystem/shaderdx8/texturedx8.cpp:

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FileHandle_t file = FileSystem()->Open( "vidcfg.bin", "rb", "EXECUTABLE_PATH" );
if ( file )
{
GUID deviceId;
int texSize;
FileSystem()->Read( &deviceId, sizeof(deviceId), file );
FileSystem()->Read( &texSize, sizeof(texSize), file );
FileSystem()->Close( file );
if ( nDeviceGUID == deviceId )
{
return texSize;
}
}

<...>

file = FileSystem()->Open( "vidcfg.bin", "wb", "EXECUTABLE_PATH" );
if ( file )
{
FileSystem()->Write( &nDeviceGUID, sizeof(GUID), file );
FileSystem()->Write( &totalSize, sizeof(totalSize), file );
FileSystem()->Close( file );
}


[imakemilkgosour]

for some reason when a metrocop/combine soldier shoots my game crashes
this only happens in e3 2002 though.

[bruno]

for some reason when a metrocop/combine soldier shoots my game crashes
this only happens in e3 2002 though.

Try switching the multiplayer playermodel to something else. For some reason when the combine model is selected in-game, it will cause it to crash whenever coming in contact with another one, even in single player.

[Arthur_Asta]

Hello there. 
I've been working on a beta mod for a while now and have encountered a very frustrating issue with the last map. The sound of shooting, dialogues, steps, etc. is played incompletely. Any ideas why this happens? I would be glad to receive any help.

[88aim88]

when i launch the beta i have no cursor most of the times
game keeps crashing when stepping on the pile of trash

[coleisforrobot]

Type: Game Crash
Vers: 2003 beta
When I pick up the HEV suit, my game immediately crashes back to Steam (I have it as a Non-Steam Game, I've tried with the LeakNet Launcher and the crash still occurs)
Any help?

[MegaMan1904]

Type: Game Crash
Vers: 2003 beta
When I pick up the HEV suit, my game immediately crashes back to Steam (I have it as a Non-Steam Game, I've tried with the LeakNet Launcher and the crash still occurs)
Any help?

why are you using steam

[vxider]

i accidentally messed up my resolution to bigger than my screen and now i cant click settings so
uhhhhh how do i fix it

[Rostikbeta]

i accidentally messed up my resolution to bigger than my screen and now i cant click settings so
uhhhhh how do i fix it

create a shortcut and paste the following parameters there:

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-width "your resolution" -height "your resolution" but it's better to connect the monitor via hdmi cable.

[taucannonnotgauss3000]

for some reason the 2002 campaign doesn't work, and when I try to  make a new game, it just doesnt load, any help?

[Витой]

for some reason the 2002 campaign doesn't work, and when I try to  make a new game, it just doesnt load, any help?

There is no such thing as "2002 campaign" and "New game" button in the leaked build of HL2 is practically useless as mostly all pre-september 2003 maps have no triggers to change levels. You have to change levels manually using the console. Open it and put map map_name and then press enter.
Don't forget to download 2002 mappack fixed by Toast the Fox