Cant run half life in open gl

[Psyco]

title says it all only change i made the last time i played it is that i upgraded to win 10

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Elaborate further.

[Psyco]

alright what happens is actually nothing happens when clicking play the game starts up for a second and just quits i dont even see a black screen thats it

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Originally posted by Psycon:

alright what happens is actually nothing happens when clicking play the game starts up for a second and just quits i dont even see a black screen thats it

Go to launch options and add "-soft" without quotation marks. Then the game should open up. Afterwards, go to video and set it back to openGL renderer.

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Make sure to remove the launch option after you do this.

[Psyco]

when i change it to openGL game just gives me a blackscreen and shuts off

[Psyco]

and when i start it gives me a warning saying the game cant start in opengl

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Originally posted by Psycon:

and when i start it gives me a warning saying the game cant start in opengl

Restart steam.

[Sikobae]

Originally posted by Psycon:

and when i start it gives me a warning saying the game cant start in opengl

Do you even have drivers installed?

[Psyco]

Originally posted by Sikobae:

Originally posted by Psycon:

and when i start it gives me a warning saying the game cant start in opengl

Do you even have drivers installed?

Yes....yes i do i also installed different versions to see if something changed but it didnt as for restarting steam i tried that didnt work

[Blyte]

This is to help people who have off sized or black screen when starting the game.
This will allow you to see the games menu options to correct the problem.

Use the game launch options.
1 Click Library in Steam
2 Right click the Half-Life game
3 Next select properties
4 Click the box "set launch options"
5 Then enter the command "commands you want to use" no quote marks
EX: Then enter the command "- soft -normal -windowed -w 800" no quote marks
6 Click ok

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Correct your screen resolution in game menu options
1 Start the Half-Life game
2 On the game menu page select option
3 Then click video tab at the top
4 Select the correct mode and resolution for your monitor
5 Click apply

Once you have the correct screen mode and resolution selected.
You will need/should remove the commands in the Half-Life launch options.

Good luck and happy gaming.
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Note:
-w <width> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <width>.
-h <height> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <height>. This launch option does not need to be set in the presence of -w. The width value will determine the height automatically.

standard height size is determined by the screen mode -norm or -widescreem
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P.S
Here are more "set launch options" commands that can be used for video.
-fullscreen : no framed window
-windowed : game will be in a framed window
-noboarder : removes frame from around a window
-gl : open_gl graphics rendering
-software : CPU graphic rendering
-normal : monitor size 4:3 ratio
-wide : monitor size 16:9or10 ratio
+gl_vsync 0 : turns off verical Synch in open_gl rendering (can improve FPS)
-nofbo : this turns off some advance rendering in open_gl (can improve FPS)
-nomsaa : turns off AA ;Anti-Aliasing (can improve FPS)
-gl_aniso 0 : Removes anisotrophic filtering (can improve FPS)
-w 800 : width screen resolution size (other sizes can be used)
-h 600 : height screen resolution size (other sizes can be used)

[Psyco]

Gonna play around with the launch options i just cant set the renderer to openGL and FPS is just god awful on software

[Tiny Pumpkin :3]

mine does the same thing and also blackscreen i have to use it in window (using -windowed) then options and full screen everytime i play it so HL is very buggy with graphics

[Psyco]

I think my problem was not having OpenGL properly installed since i upgraded to windows 10 that year, maybe you wanna check that.

[Engineer Gaming]

did you fixed the problem?

[Psyco]

Originally posted by Engineer Gaming:

did you fixed the problem?

If its literally the same problem i had, try installing openGL if you dont have it