When playing any HL2 game, that is, CSS, DoDS, HL2 my controls lock up every few seconds, and my player keeps moving in the same direction as he was when I was pressing the direction. After this is over, it executes any commands I pressed while locked up. The FPS are consistantly at 50-60, and my ping is substantially low, never going over 50. Everyone else sees me doing it, and it's not a server issue at all. I STILL got a 20:1 ratio in CSS, though! Any ideas?

I tested in FEAR MP, and I'm not having that problem at all.

One more question: In all HL2 games and FEAR, I get a checker pattern screen overlay of fuzzy white things when looking at models/dynamic objects. I was told it was HDR, so I turned off HDR in both games, and it still happens. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

In HL2, the purple-and-black texture is kind of the "dflt.mat" of HL2 - so, when a material doesn't load, that displays instead. Aside from reloading the map, I don't know of a way to fix that issue.

If you're getting ****ed up textures you might have an overheating problem.

That or bad memory.

The contols lockup happens in all HL1 game too.
Also for some reason HL1 keeps making random letters disapear.
For example: The becomes he And every single letter T in the game disapears.

Really freaky.

I know that it's the default texture, but it happens no matter what. Resetting the level doesn't solve it. And it's an overlay issue, not a texture issue.



It's not overheating, because my box is very cool. It's not likely memory, because everything reads fine. Would an inadequet power supply be the problem? I know I'm straining the hell out of my power supply right now, so I want to get an external.

Try the PSU. And just to be safe, AS5 some heat sinks on to your memory.

EDIT: Rob, (and I) are talking about the VRAM, not system RAM. It's possible that that may be corrupted. Honestly I'd say you're right about the PSU, but if not look at your graphics card's memory.

No, not with the checker pattern.

Re-download or re-install HL2. Best bet.

He's having texture problems in FEAR too.

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Probably an obvious question to ask but I'll ask anyways since I haven't seen anyone else ask it yet: Do you have the latest drivers for your video card installed?

I read it wrong I guess.

He said the control lag didn't affect FEAR. The checker pattern is there.

I would have said that too, except for the fact he's having the same issues with FEAR.

OK, to clarify:

Control lag issues are only in HL2/Source, checker pattern overlay is in both FEAR and HL2/Source programs.

Completely close Google Desktop (IE, the server, the indexer, the sidebar, the tray icon, everything) and the problem will magically disappear. You will find it happens in some other games too, such as Doom 3.

I don't know of any other program that does this but if you don't run GD you can bet some other program is doing it.



Sounds like a driver or DirectX issue.

Oh man, I'll bet it's google desktop! I'll go try!

All fixed! Thanks ZZTer