[OT] Half-Life 2 Patch Released

The changes in this release are directed at reducing the problem some users are experiencing with sound stuttering. The sound stuttering is not indicative of a sound problem, sound stuttering is only a symptom of texture thrashing on your video card or AGP memory. For information on how to reduce texture thrashing visit this link on our support site:

[THIS IS NOT THE LINK FOR THE PATCH. RESTART STEAM TO GET THE PATCH]
http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=280

This update will fix sound stuttering that users were experiencing that would last for longer than a few seconds during normal gameplay. This update will also eliminate this same behavior following a quicksave or autosave. There will still be a short pause while the autosave happens, but not the more drawn out stuttering behaivior.

We are still investigating another performance problem on some hardware, which will manifest where the game is getting into a state where performance drops to less than 5 fps and does not recover or crashes.

Next week we will be releasing the Source SDK, along with a surprise for the community.
 [via Steam News]

14 Comments

  • Great news but isnt the crashing issue just a touch more pressing?

  • plz give me patch for hl2

  • okay my half life2 game keeps locking up and ive tried everything to fix it!! the graphics drag the sound loops and locks up!! is there a patch to fix this? ive done everything steam help told me to do and still no luck. help!!

    bludogz6@hotmail.com

  • how do i get the patch ??? thank you

  • I'm not only having problems with the sound glitching/hiccuping, but the game play is very jerky...doesn't flow smooth. It was fine just a few days ago, then it started and all the maps I play do the same thing. The_Real_Craten@msn.com

  • no, my game half life 2 is full of mistackes. the AI does not respond to the comands (Alex does not follow Freeman )so i can't pass the levels. I think this is another big waste of my time and this tipe of games with errors stink

  • have probles whith HL2 and I need the pacht and how to get the tanks contac me at alexover69@hotmail.com

  • The problem with the girl not following you. Press "F6" to save, then without exiting hit Esc -> load -> "Load the file you jusst saved" and she should walk in when it loads.

  • have probles whith HL2 and I need the pacht and how to get the tanks contac me at alexover69@hotmail.com

  • "# re: [OT] Half-Life 2 Patch Released


    no, my game half life 2 is full of mistackes. the AI does not respond to the comands (Alex does not follow Freeman )so i can't pass the levels. I think this is another big waste of my time and this tipe of games with errors stink"
    I had the same problem. When you play hl2 type in your console ai_disable and the AI should respond

  • i cant get half life 2 pach

  • Link doesn't work anymore. Anywhere I can find that patch?

  • the links dead, and even on the actual steam software you cant get the patch anymore, any help??

  • When I'm at the 2nd to Last level going into the conveyor belt. When I get on the far one, like it says in the walkthrough. I'm supposed to go somewhere but it takes me back to the catwalk. LOL! POS GAME!

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