Steam Problems Created 17 years ago2006-08-26 04:54:07 UTC by Elon Yariv

Recently I had problems playing Hl1 on steam with the graphics settings of- 800x600, Direct3D and 16bit textures.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with my graphics card. It works perfectly on WON HL1 and I also upgraded my graphics card. After I upgraded the card even hammer didn't make any problems, it didn't gave me any problems about openGL rendering.

Does anybody knows whats steams problem and how can I fix it?

If not then how can I copy all of Hl1 steam stuff to regular Hl1? I want it to be able to do everything the steam version can(bump mapping, transperent models...ect), those things are the only things that I keep steam for. :

Edit:

Now I've got another question- does those little features steam gives really worth two days of trying to fix it? I think I'm going to remove that program anyway... I loved transperent models.

First of all, don't run HL in D3D.

What are exactly the problems you are getting?
I know that my HL doesn't render undwater areas properly in Direct3D. (in none of the three 3D cards I've owned)

Sorry, I haven't explained myself. I was angry. I can't run on openGL, I couldn't run on it even before the problem started, so I use direct 3D.

The problem is that steam shows a message saying- Can't run in corrent render options, running in sofware mode.

Then it asks me to restart the game. I do so and it runs in software resolution size 640x480. I cannot change it, even back to the render options I changed it from.
First I changed it from 800x600 D3D to ~1000x~700 D3D, and when I wanted to change it back to 800x600 D3D steam didn't allow me so I was forced to use 640x480 D3D. Afterward I tried changing it to the second resolution again and steam refused. Now it doesn't let me use even the 640x480 D3D setting.

I don't know what happened that steam started acting this way so suddenly. Probebly downloaded an update, it's annoying when it does that without informing me.

Try updating your GPU drivers if you haven't already, and validate the HL cache from the steam site.