Half-Life 2 Forum

After update to 10.5.6 in video-settings now I see DirectX 9.0+ instead DX 8.1+. And now game is look UGLY! Light-maps shown with big squares, game now is very very SLOW... Now it's totaly unplayable on LOWEST settings!! What happend? How I can back DX8.1??? SOS!

In the Steam games list, select the game and click the Properties button. Then click the Set Launch Options button. Add "-dxlevel 81" to the list of options that are there.

Launch HL2 and then just quit it. Remove "-dxlevel 81" from the launch options. That option is a one-time thing that should be permanent until you change it back. See if HL2 now works like it used to.

If that doesn't work, please use the Run Command dialog to run "regedit". Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] and make sure that the "useGLSL" value it set to "disabled".

Also, could you please report what model Mac you use and what GPU it has?

First method worked! Thanks!!!

Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1600
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz

Also, some models in HL2 is totaly black. It is some walls in level with bridge, and one kind of zombie. Know some fixes?