Windows 10?

[pompom]

I have gone far too long without playing half-life and I'm wondering if it will work on a windows 10 64bit clean install. Any response would be great!!

[Mr_Yeti]

Originally posted by Braincage:

I have gone far too long without playing half-life and I'm wondering if it will work on a windows 10 64bit clean install. Any response would be great!! :excitebox:

Yes there is no reason why it shouldn't work.Although you could run into issues as it is not as stable as previous OS.But Half Life doesn't have problems on modern hardware,so really you don't have to worry.

[ATM51416]

yes

[fink]

I can confirm it works it on W10. I've had no problems yet, so, it should be alright.

[pompom]

yah just bought it and it works fine on a clean windows 10 install!

[richrow2]

I just upgraded to Win 10 and Half-Life won't play. Start screen flashes and then it goes black. Any thoughts about how to fix?

[🐾Toast🐾]

Really? i have had no problem running it on win 10

[pompom]

It might be a driver issue, not all drivers work with windows 10 yet, are you having trouble with any other games?

[MALP53]

Originally posted by MissMeme:

It might be a driver issue, not all drivers work with windows 10 yet, are you having trouble with any other games?

ive had the smae issues as powdered TOAST... ive tried updating drivers, redownloading and playing with the setings a little bit, no dice, ano other siggestions?

[stahlhart]

Here's how I got the original Half-Life / Opposing Force / Blue Shift games running with 64-bit Windows 10:

-- installed Borderless Gaming, Steam purchase -- I could not get these games to run higher than 60fps and not run poorly to boot in full screen mode, but running them windowed works around this. I set them to run windowed in the game options, along with Vsync off (I have Gsync monitor), and added the three executables to the favorites list in BG to get full screen back, windowed

-- added the following two lines to config.cfg for each game (in the "valve" folder for Half-Life, the "gearbox" folder for Opposing Force, and the "bshift" folder for Blue Shift):

fps_max "120.0" <-- or whichever refresh rate you wish to max out at, if not 60fps; 120fps is my own preference

fps_override "1"

-- after updating, set each config.cfg file to *read only* in properties -- the games will remove the settings added above every time they're launched otherwise

All run nicely at 1440p. GPUs are Nvidia Maxwell, with latest drivers (358.50). Graphics and games are still buggy in spots, but then so are the non-Steam originals.

[stahlhart]

Sometimes adding -nofbo to the launch options fixes the black screen on launch problem. I don't currently have this set up in mine, though (is it possible running windowed instead of full screen eliminates the need for it?).

[Shallex]

Originally posted by stahlhart:

Here's how I got the original Half-Life / Opposing Force / Blue Shift games running with 64-bit Windows 10:

-- installed Borderless Gaming, Steam purchase -- I could not get these games to run higher than 60fps and not run poorly to boot in full screen mode, but running them windowed works around this. I set them to run windowed in the game options, along with Vsync off (I have Gsync monitor), and added the three executables to the favorites list in BG to get full screen back, windowed

-- added the following two lines to config.cfg for each game (in the "valve" folder for Half-Life, the "gearbox" folder for Opposing Force, and the "bshift" folder for Blue Shift):

fps_max "120.0" <-- or whichever refresh rate you wish to max out at, if not 60fps; 120fps is my own preference

fps_override "1"

-- after updating, set each config.cfg file to *read only* in properties -- the games will remove the settings added above every time they're launched otherwise

All run nicely at 1440p. GPUs are Nvidia Maxwell, with latest drivers (358.50). Graphics and games are still buggy in spots, but then so are the non-Steam originals.

You don't need borderless gaming, you can just put

-sw -noborder

in your launch options to have the game run at borderless windowed.

[stahlhart]

Originally posted by Shallex:

You don't need borderless gaming, you can just put

-sw -noborder

in your launch options to have the game run at borderless windowed.

Good to know; thanks much -- I did notice, though, that BG brings the window out to full screen completely, whereas I can still see the taskbar with the above setting. Is there a console command that adds full screen to borderless windowed?

[Shallex]

Originally posted by stahlhart:

Originally posted by Shallex:

You don't need borderless gaming, you can just put

-sw -noborder

in your launch options to have the game run at borderless windowed.

Good to know; thanks much -- I did notice, though, that BG brings the window out to full screen completely, whereas I can still see the taskbar with the above setting. Is there a console command that adds full screen to borderless windowed?

It doesn't usually show the taskbar for me. I'm afraid I can't help you there.

[Blyte]

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 : in windowed mode this removes the frame around it.
-gl : open_gl graphics rendering
-software or -sw : 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)

[Adem]

Originally posted by richrow2:

I just upgraded to Win 10 and Half-Life won't play. Start screen flashes and then it goes black. Any thoughts about how to fix?

i have the same problem, as you. maybe its because of x32 or x64?

i use windows 10 on an x64 system and i installed half-life on an x32 folder. maybe it works only in an x64 folder...