Half-Life 2 help
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Half-Life 2 help
So I just installed Half-Life 2 and I have this problem. All the characters in the game show up black (no not African-American 
h: ). Anybody else have this problem, or know how to fix it? 
h: ). Anybody else have this problem, or know how to fix it?
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Turn down the resolution or other settings?
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Originally Posted by CivicSiRacer
Turn down the resolution or other settings?
Originally Posted by Darth Grifter
update your video card driver?
Originally Posted by Qbacca
Send me money
I probably should've mentioned I'm playing this on a laptop, which probably means the experience will be subpar. :happysad:
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No it wouldn't even be that great.
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I still like honda's. :-/
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Originally Posted by Kestrel
What's ffaa?
The highly-anticipated Half-Life 2 game will have a major bug with current DirectX 9.0 hardware resulting in impossibility in enabling Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing, a popular feature that dramatically improves image quality in games. Apparently, there is a limitation in DirectX 9.0 and/or DirectX 9.0-compliant hardware that will not allow the function to be enabled on certain graphics cards if the workaround is not found.
The developers of the legendary Half-Life game said that drivers are not likely to solve the problem, however, it still can be solved for graphics cards based on VPUs from ATI Technologies, such as RADEON 9500-, 9600-, 9700- and 9800-series. As for NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce FX-series, there are practically no chances to find a workaround, according to Valve.
The developers of the legendary Half-Life game said that drivers are not likely to solve the problem, however, it still can be solved for graphics cards based on VPUs from ATI Technologies, such as RADEON 9500-, 9600-, 9700- and 9800-series. As for NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce FX-series, there are practically no chances to find a workaround, according to Valve.