[BUG REPORTS TOPIC] - 25th Anniversary Update

[One Magic Fox]

We will report in this thread about all the errors and problems that you encountered after receiving the update "25th Anniversary Update" =)

This comment will be a response to the discussion, it will display recommendations for eliminating errors in the game that are offered by members of our community. The post will be updated and supplemented with new offers. I hope this helps you!

I:
Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

If the first point did not help, then proceed further.

II:
1. Go to the game "Half-Life" in your "Steam Library". Right-click on the game icon. Select "Properties" and go to the "General" section. Disable synchronization with "Steam Cloud".
2. Then uninstall the game "Half-Life" from "Steam".
3. Go to the path "Steam/steamapps/common" and completely delete the "Half-Life" folder.
4. Go to the path “Steam/steamapps/sourcemods” and completely delete all folders associated with the modification of the game “Half-Life”.
5. Open the Windows Registry Editor, go to the path: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve” and completely delete the “Half-Life” section. Then we also follow the path: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps” and completely delete the “70” section.
6. Open the “Steam Library” and download and install the game again.

Life hacks to fix some errors:

III:
*Black window when launching the game - launch the game with the Steam launch parameter "-window" (without quotes). Then select the display mode that your PC supports.

*If you switched the game to software rendering mode and you get a black screen, try using "-gl" (without quotes) in the launch options

*Also, if you have a black screen after the initial splash screen, try the "-novid" command in the launch options.

​*If you have audio delay, try setting the installation parameter "snd_mixahead 0" (without quotes) in the console.

*If you use Windows HDR, and after leaving the game your desktop becomes too dark, then you need to turn off and turn on your monitor without restarting your PC.

*Use fps_override 1 and fps_max 144 to unlock your FPS

*Error "sample.wad" - find in the game folder and create a copy of the file "halflife.wad" and rename the file to "sample.wad"

*If you have "cl_lw 1" enabled it will make your pistol eject 2 shells sometimes when shooting instead of 1, setting it to "cl_lw 0" fixes this.

*If you want to disable the new shader features, you can use "gl_use_shaders" and set it to "0". This will make the game look more like steam-vanilla.

*If you want to test the Overbright function, then enter the parameter "gl_use_shaders 0" into the console and then change it to "gl_use_shaders 1"

*To enable dynamic shadows in the game, enter the parameter "r_shadows 1" into the console. To prevent shadows from disappearing when you restart the game, create a file “autoexec.cfg” in the root folder of the game and write the value “r_shadows 1” into it

*The software renderer may crash if "r_mmx" is not set to 1, and vice versa for OpenGL.

[One Magic Fox]

My problems after receiving the game update:

1. An attempt to disable the "Enable texture filtering" setting - it is reset and disabled every time the level is loaded (loading...) and also every time the save is reloaded.
2. The error "Fatal Error - Warning: couldn't open sample.wad" appears

[sephirothOWA]

Z fighting still occurs on some signs and other textures.

[Zero the Player]

So far I have only had problems with FPS drops, from 60 to 30 or 40
Does the game only run at 60 fps?

[Merrick Simms]

As report by Kako on this topic: https://steamcommunity.com/app/70/discussions/0/6027566653457880029/

1. The main menu and settings have not been localized.
2. The ropes in Opposing Forces still go stuff above about 140 FPS.
3. There is no setting in the settings to disable the view bob.
4. The HUD in Opposing Forces has not been scaled properly.
5. Unable to launch Blue-Shift at all.
6. When jumping, there is no landing sound anymore.

Also:
1. No text and voices on Uplink during the introduction scene. Probably missing audio / text files for the localiszed version of the game.

[TheSwordman]

Sound is delayed and the hud is too big in low resolutions like 720p and 768p

[fluffyChocolate]

All of the newly added stuff is (either) untranslated (or in the case of Uplink, straight up doesn't have any language besides placeholder text)

Edit: Should probably clarify this only affects non-English versions.

[One Magic Fox]

Originally posted by Yojimbo1979:

So far I have only had problems with FPS drops, from 60 to 30 or 40
Does the game only run at 60 fps?

I don't have any fps drop. But Fps is locked at 100 frames. Vsync is disabled.

[Plyroar]

I can't host/create a server. Once I load in, I get the error "Hunk_Alloc: failed on 264 bytes"

[One Magic Fox]

Also, after exiting the game, Windows HDR breaks and the desktop becomes very dark, you have to restart the computer.

[🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle]

Originally posted by One Magic Fox:

Originally posted by Yojimbo1979:

So far I have only had problems with FPS drops, from 60 to 30 or 40
Does the game only run at 60 fps?

I don't have any fps drop. But Fps is locked at 100 frames. Vsync is disabled.

fps_override 1
fps_max 144

[black mesa security]

half life launcher doesnt work

[Nacery]

Software rendered is broken for me just frozen black screen though I can hear that the game is actually responding

[[WL/S³] Weasel (Probably AFK)]

Linux dedicated server broken:

Removed all my mods (metamod, amx-mox-x, jk-botti, etc.), but still server crashes after update to HL released today!

Console output ...

Auto-restarting the server on crash

Console initialized.
Using breakpad crash handler
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 70
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
Protocol version 48
Exe version 1.1.2.2/Stdio (valve)
Exe build: 19:52:19 Aug  3 2020 (8684)
STEAM Auth Server
Server IP address {redacted}:{redacted}
Couldn't get GiveFnptrsToDll in
Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from !
FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from !

[Storm User]

I'll share here what I said in a thread I posted as well.

The bug I had encountered was within Unforeseen Consequences. The door for the area to get your hands on grenades early wasn't opening.

I should also note that one of the other bugs I had encountered was with the health stations. For some reason when you reach 100% health, the station still plays the administering sound instead of the denied sound.

[Campbell-Duo]

Originally posted by Nacery:

Software rendered is broken for me just frozen black screen though I can hear that the game is actually responding

Same here, Would love to actually try out the update but black screen is all that awaits me