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Half-Life 2 Tips

Getting the game to run on lower-end cards

Go into steam and then go to launch options and type this code:

-dxlevel 81 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +mat_antialias 0 + mat_disable_bloom 1 +mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority +mat_softwarelighting 1 +mat_reducefillrate 1 +mat_bumpmap 0 + mat_specular 0 +mat_picmip 2 +mat_max_worldmesh_vertices 1024 +map_background none -heapsize 1024000 +datacachesize 768 -autoconfig

That should get you into the game but there are still unresolved problems such as
  • When you get up to a "loading point the game crashes,
  • When you die the screen goes black and doesn't let you re-spawn
  • It's very slow

I'm not saying that you will have these problems, you will have to try it and see.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

(I originally posted this on Portals Tips and trick page but it can be used for any Hl2 game so I thought that it would be best if I posted it here!)

Tips for Half-Life 2
by abdbgames on 2011-03-31 14:29:03
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