My HL2 problem

[sswingle]

Anywhere there is water, I get blinking lines across the water. They are large white lines, look kinda like lines in a road, evenly spaced across any water texture. Any ideas?

How do I get console to load?

I have a 3500 A64 and a X800PRO video card. Used default settings, which is everything on high, and water is set to reflect real world.

Oh, and how do I access console. Everyone keeps posting a console command to see FPS, but I can't get console.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Press the ~ key.

 

[sswingle]

And.....NOTHING HAPPENS. Anyone else?

 

[Crusty]

In order to get teh console you need to add -console to your launcher string in steam.

 

[INGlewood78]

you have to enable console under the video tab/advance....

 

[Robor]

The " ~ " tilde key should bring down a console. I don't know what to type in there to enable FPS monitor but the ~ worked on mine.

 

[sswingle]

Here is an example of my lines in water. They just flash periodically.

http://sscustomcomputers.com/pics/hl2.jpg

 

[Crusty]

What kinda hardware are you running it on?

 

[sswingle]

Abit Motherboard, Socket 939 Athlon 64 3500, Asus X800PRO w/256 mb 1GB system ram 3200 dual channel

 

[jiffylube1024]

Which driver are you using? If it's an older one, unistall it and install the 4.11 or 4.12 betas.

 

[sswingle]

Just got the 4.11 a few days ago. Everything else works great. And the ONLY problem in HL2 that I see is the water effect.

 

[Crusty]

Try experimenting with the graphic detail settings in the game, like change filtering methods or the level of shaders etc. and see if you can make it go away.

 

[poffypoffa]

I'm pretty sure that's a known problem with some systems (specular mapping issue), and it's fixed in the 4.12b beta driver. I'd give it a shot.

 

[sswingle]

Well, I encountered other textures being screwed up later in the game, so I uninstalled steam completely, and redownloaded the game. Fixed everything.

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: Robor
The " ~ " tilde key should bring down a console. I don't know what to type in there to enable FPS monitor but the ~ worked on mine.

cl_showfps 1

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: Childs

Originally posted by: Robor
The " ~ " tilde key should bring down a console. I don't know what to type in there to enable FPS monitor but the ~ worked on mine.

cl_showfps 1

I like cl_showfps 2

1 updates the readout so fast I can't hardly read it. 2 updates the readout slower

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: Childs

Originally posted by: Robor
The " ~ " tilde key should bring down a console. I don't know what to type in there to enable FPS monitor but the ~ worked on mine.

cl_showfps 1

I like cl_showfps 2

1 updates the readout so fast I can't hardly read it. 2 updates the readout slower

really? thatd be helpful. thx!