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As of monday 2006/09/11 my old E-mail address is dead.
Click on my name to go to my account if you want my new address. I wonder if anyone has messed with hl2 command line options to get it to run better? I've got a few commands in mine but it still hitches loading data on occasion and is very annoying, this is what I am using :
-novid -heapsize 1024000 -cl_forcepreload 1 -dsp_enhance_stereo 1 So im giving it a full 1gb of ram to play with (I have 2gb in my pc) and telling it to preload everything yet it still hitches??? Does anyone more in the know than I am know of any other useful parameters to add? Oh the dsp enhance parameter makes the stero panning sound much better btw! runs like ass on my pc on level loads. The hitching is a huge problem. It's infinitely worse with more recent Source games.
I only have 512mb though :( I also have a crap onboard sound chip. Once it's loaded it all runs fine, but this problem absolutely shitted on my experience of the game. Luckily, I had played it at my old work and it ran fine on a system that also had 512mb ram (but a proper dedicated soundcard) and had no hitching issues. I hate source. Found that this little gizmo works wonders for latency performance, decreasing and sometimes halting the stuttering completely: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/PCI_Latency_Tool/1105467085/1
You know what that means - it's time to move over to the dark side and finish that Doom 3 map, beotch.
Source saves memory by only caching the first eighth of a second of all sounds. It plays that eighth while it loads the rest of the sound.
That means that it's constantly seeking on your disk for sounds. I dunno if it was ever proven that that's what causes the hitching, but that's the leading theory at least. that's a nifty tool, but i was wondering what else will be affected by changing the pci latency? and if it could be bad for other things?
I corrupted some files and thus need them again...
dmc1.zip pg2.zip phantasm.zip rcoldmaps.zip =( as I downloaded most of the quaddicted side before it crashed....
http://members.home.nl/gimli/dmc1.zip Sometimes we are considered as geek... but this man is over standing the geek concept !! In anyway, respect to him: building a calculator using "Legos" is pure art...
I broke down and downloaded "Lego Digital Designer," which for the uninformed is lego's new virtual lego building software which lets you build stuff out of infinite legos without having to actually own any.
At first I thought, "how could they do that when it would sort of eat into their sales of actual physical legos?" However, it seems that this Lego Digital Designer lets you actually order, ie with money, the exact set of bricks you used to build whatever hideous masterpiece it is that you built. So, if you construct some crazy thingajig and just have to have it, you can buy it and have those bricks all show up in the mail for what I assumed would be a tremendous fee. I worried very much that I'd emerge from my apartment two weeks later, scruffy and unkempt, having spent upwards of a thousand dollars on a large, colorful, and fully articulated Baneblade or something. It turns out I was wrong about all of that. Lego apparently decided instead that to stop this from eating into sales of actual sets they'd just make the software completely awkward and useless, and only include the boring common bricks you can't build anything remotely interesting with. I placed like two bricks and a wheel and uninstalled the whole affair without remorse. I guess, for now, there is no substitute for the original.
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