Well, I've uninstalled Steam, Hammer, HL, CS, OP, TFC, BS and reinstalled just HL and TFC. No luck. Did a system restore from last week and reinstalled HL and TFC. Still no 'noclip.'
I called the technical support number for Sierra (the support center is in India) and got exactly no help. They said it was a "functionality" problem. They even suggested I send an email to
support@valve.com, which is interesting because the company is valvesoftware.com. Valve.com is a manufacturer. Thanks, Sierra.
So I also sent an email to
support@sierra.com. In my heart of hearts I do not expect any help there, either.
Curiously, the first time I installed HL on this machine (1 month old), the Sierra automatic update listed a bunch of download sites that didn't have the HL update. I found and downloaded HL1100 (which I thought was the latest) and was running it along with tfc5150 or whatever it was.
This last install, I installed HL, got the bogus Sierra update list of servers that didn't work, cancelled out (as I have a copy of HL1100.exe), installed TFC and got an automatic update download to HL 1.1.0.4! Curious.
However, noclip still doesn't work.
Question: is everyone running HL 1.1.0.4?