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Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:32 pm
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Forum Medic
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 159
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I'll take a look at the link, though now it wont even let me fire up the game.
I keep getting the steam error of 'this game is unavailable at this time.' or whatever.
No idea why. It did this with the Bioshock demo too, and I was never able to play that, even after deleting it and redownloading.
I tried doing the same with FF, but it will not let me delete the FF folder from my Mod foler. Specifically informing me that deleting the game_shader_generic_advanced.dll is denied.
Edit: I was finally able to actually delete the folder. Getting into my task manager, I saw that a copy of hl2.exe was running, constantly.. somewhere in the background. how this occured, I dont know, but it only started after I had tried getting onto FF twice.
I'll reinstall it and run the Source SDK base once and see if that fixes the problems. |
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:00 pm
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Forum Medic
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Nope, still doesn't work. it gets to about 75% in the map loading screen and kicks me right back out. Ugh.
I guess I'll redownload it, just to insure it was the right client.. or maybe the one i downloaded had it packed wrong.. i dont know. I'll try it again and see. |
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:25 pm
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Forum Medic
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Okay, that must have been the trouble, because it works now. lol |
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:24 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Posts: 1848
Location: Boston
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Appaerntly Im not the only one having the alt-tab problem as others have said so as well. Basically I will be in game and when i alt-tab out to do something like get on vent or something else, then I click back to the game and the screen is all black and all i see is my mouse pointer and i hear the sounds of the game as if I was standing arund and everyone else is fighting and being blown up. I have tried numerouse ways of getting back to the game but none have worked so far. I have to task manager and end the game if i want to play it again.
And yes I have tried to press the tilda key and get nothing. Maybe I have to assign it to a key myself? |
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:09 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Location: Houston
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Controlled Chaos wrote: |
Appaerntly Im not the only one having the alt-tab problem as others have said so as well. Basically I will be in game and when i alt-tab out to do something like get on vent or something else, then I click back to the game and the screen is all black and all i see is my mouse pointer and i hear the sounds of the game as if I was standing arund and everyone else is fighting and being blown up. I have tried numerouse ways of getting back to the game but none have worked so far. I have to task manager and end the game if i want to play it again.
And yes I have tried to press the tilda key and get nothing. Maybe I have to assign it to a key myself? |
Don't alt-tab out during the loading process. That should fix it. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:29 am
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
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Location: Boston
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its not during the loading process its anytime during the game even in the middle of play. i will stay in respawn and do it and it happens. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:41 am
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: New Jersey
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I haven't tried to alt + tab yet...and thanks to these comments, I doubt I will try.
You need to enable the developer console in the advanced options to use the tilde key to open it in game. Been that way for all hl & hl2 mods. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:19 am
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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I dont have a problem alt tabbing out, my screen stays black for a short bit but loads fine. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:23 am
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Forum Medic
Joined: 02 Dec 2005
Posts: 202
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I haven't tried alt-tab'ing out of the game yet, but I know it gave me problems in the beta.
I found a glitch that I want to warn you guys about....
On the warehouse roof on Hunted, do NOT take a screenshot. I don't know why, but it crashes your client to the point of needing a restart.
No harm done, but it's annoying waiting for the computer to come back up, and then go back into the game and all. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:50 am
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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A thought on the alt + tab problem....DON'T click on the game with your mouse on the taskbar...alt + tab back to the game. This usually works for me. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:50 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Location: Houston
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HL2 just eats everything, it's not a FF problem with the alt-tabbing, other people have gotten it when playing games other than FF. |
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Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:08 pm
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Joined: 02 Jan 2007
Posts: 68
Location: Michigan
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Does anyone know how i can raise my FPS without having to buy a graphics card? I get like a wide range of 1 - 10 FPS. |
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Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:41 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Lower graphics settings, add -dxlevel 70 to the launch properties for FF. |
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Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:09 pm
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Forum Sniper
Joined: 26 Jul 2005
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Also found out that "The Steam Community" is a cause to many issues for many players running on less than preferred setups (at least a 6800gt w/ 2gb ram and a 3.0ghz single core processor).
If you want to try it out, you can disable it by opening your main steam window, clicking on file, going to settings, clicking on the in-game tab, and unchecking the box for The Steam Community; followed by Restarting Steam. |
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Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:11 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 26 Feb 2005
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Location: East Coast - New Jersey
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