I reinstalled Half-life from the CD. Is there a patch to the most recent version?
I've heard that the Opposing Force add-on includes new netcode that reduces lag for TFC. Is this true?
I recently installed the Opposing Force add-on, and now my netgraph looks different. Is there anything I can do to make it look like it did before?
When trying to update Half-life I get this message: "Your half-life executable has been modified. Please check your system for viruses and re-install. What should I do?
I recently reinstalled Half-life, and am not sure
which patch I need to get from retail to the latest version without going
through every patch in between. Is this possible and which
patch do I need?
This has all been made much easier with the most recent patch for Half-life (v1100). If you
are certain you have the 1016 version of Half-life, download the 1016-1100 patch.
If you don't know what version you have, or if you have an earlier version, download the HL 1100 patch
which will update all previous versions of Half-life to v1100.
First you'll
need to determine which version is on your Half-life CD. If you bought the
original release of Half-life (orange CD), check your readme.txt file for
the version number. If your readme.txt file says version 1.0, then you have
version 1.005, which was the first release of Half-life, and requires the 1005
to 1013 patch (10051013.exe). If you have the Game of the Year Edition
(black CD) then your version is 1.009, which requires the 1009
to 1013 patch (10091013.exe). If for some reason you have a version
other than 1.005/1.0 or 1.009, I've listed the fileplanet links to the neccessary
files: version 1.010: 1010
to 1013 patch (10101013.exe) version 1.011: 1011 to
1013 patch (10111013.exe) If you have version 1.006 or 1.008 you're
going to need the files listed below in addition to the 1.009 to 1.013
patch listed above: version 1.006 requires this file: 1006
to 1008 patch (10061008.exe) as well as the patches required for
version 1.008 version 1.008 requires this file: 1008
to 1009 patch (10081009.exe) as well as the patch required for version
1.009 (1009
to 1013 patch (10091013.exe))
I've heard that the Opposing Force add-on
includes new netcode that reduces lag in TFC. Is this true?
The netcode update in Opposing Force is
only for Opposing Force and makes no changes to the netcode in either
standard HL or TFC. The changes that were made were to deal with specific
problems that Gearbox was having, and also to distinguish users of OpFor
from the users of the standard HL, hence the 1.015 version number as
opposed to HL's 1.013.
I recently installed the Opposing Force add-on
and now my netgraph shows more in TFC and HL than it did before. This
includes a display of variable ping and the netgraph lines
take up nearly half of the game screen.
These commands (found at
http://www.planethalflife.com/commands/) should help you. graphheight 64
(sets the height of the r_netgraph display) graphhigh 512 (sets the maximum
value of the r_netgraph display) graphmean 1 (sets the mean value of the
r_netgraph display) graphmedian 128 (sets the median value of the
r_netgraph display) As for toggling the rest of the items displayed, I'm
still looking into it, but messing with the values of these commands should
clear up the main problem (netgraph taking up too much of the screen).
Thanks to [WOLF]Rainmaker for pointing me in the right direction and
towards that site. NOTE: After
installing Opposing Force I have not noticed anything different other than
the display of fps, incoming k/sec and outgoing k/sec in my netgraph, the
problem here may have simply been that the person was running at a low
resolution, which may cause the display of those variables to take up a
good amount of screen space. Personally, running at 1024x768 they’re buried
in the lines of the netgraph itself, which doesn’t seem to take up any more
space than it did before.
When I try to update Half-life to the latest
version, I get the following message: "Your Half-life executable has
been modified. Please check your system for viruses and
re-install Half-life." I don't think I have any kind of virus, since
the game works before the update. How can I fix this?
If you're lucky, you'll simply have a corrupted
download of the patch. If that is the case, then downloading the patch
again should solve the problem. If not, then you should continue on with
the rest of this.
When you have a virus, it is often very possible for the game to continue
fuctioning properly even though the file itself has been infected. Make
sure you have the latest updates to your virus scan/antivirus program and
do a complete scan of your computer for any possible virus that may be
there. If it turns up a virus, that's most likely all you'll need to do,
along with removing the virus, uninstalling Half-life, deleting the
Half-life folders, and then installing Half-life again.
If you did not find a virus, the next thing you will need to do is run a
scandisk (start-programs-accessories-system tools-scandisk) on the hard
drive, as well as defragmenting the drive(start-programs-accessories-system
tools-Disk Defragmenter), and uninstall the game, delete the folders, and
install again. Scandisk will often fix problems that your hard drive may be
having, and corrupted files are often a sign of a hard drive that's having
problems. If you have a good amount of time, you may want to have scandisk
perform the scan in thorough mode, which will scan the surface of the disk
for problems as well (this takes a very long time though, and is not always
needed).
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