Half-Life 2

[modest bear]

I got HORENDES rng in irl, in card games it's good, my friend is the exact oppisite way, most lucky mf irl but in card games online...

I'm well over 100 to 200 hrs into this

it's like if you were questioning suicide, your got your finger on the delete key, but you just can't do it

I got a new idea

you said you have the gaurd textures

[regal sphinx]

here ya go

[modest bear]

thanks

just to make sure if I threw it in it would work as it should

here's the funny thing

when I put it in textures, it asked me if I wanted to REPLACE THE OLD ONE

AS IF IT WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME

[modest bear]

it seems that it dosen't save things like cloths and bodies, so I might be here occasionally asking for textures

there are some occassinal blank textures but overall it seems to work well

[regal sphinx]

a capture should save literally anything you can see ingame

you are the first person i have met who has missing textures

[modest bear]

like I said, i got negitive rng

there's no way that it not saving is a luck based issue

The Blank textures seem to be ones that are frequently reused

I wouldn't call it blank

I'd call them spoty

[regal sphinx]

its definitely a blank texture, because that means the remix runtime is unable to find your custom asset

[modest bear]

no

[regal sphinx]

so you either have a dying drive on your PC, or you have permission issues for remix

[modest bear]

cause it was there before the asset

[grand comet]

"No"

[modest bear]

my drives brand new so i doubt it

[modest bear]

said no because it's on old textures too

[modest bear]

I can confirm it ain't costom assets

[regal sphinx]

so can you send a screenshot of that exact same thing with enhanced assets off? include the remix menu under enhancements too

[modest bear]

so i can't send it with enhancemnts off

it fixes when there off

[grand comet]

Have you tried Mat_forcedynamic 1

[modest bear]

however

huh

[grand comet]

I-

[regal sphinx]

no

[grand comet]

@regal sphinx

[modest bear]

I can get a screenshot of textures I haven't changed bugging out though

[regal sphinx]

this means you are having a file location issue, you need to re-do that asset since its definitely been replaced

[modest bear]

let me show you an asset I haven't changed bugging

[regal sphinx]

how does that help troubleshooting lmfao

[modest bear]

you asked for enhancments off

[regal sphinx]

yes go for it

[modest bear]

giving you the closest thing to it

[half dove]

do yall know why theres patches when i walk around?

like grey patches

[regal sphinx]

what the hell

[half dove]

talking to me orr

[regal sphinx]

yes

[half dove]

cuz i asked another question

lol

[regal sphinx]

yes and i just gave you a reaction to your question

do you also have enhanced assets?

[half dove]

whats that

like the option on?

if so yea

[regal sphinx]

turn it off

[half dove]

it goes away after

[regal sphinx]

its probably because you didnt delete the portal rtx enhanced assets, the collide with hl2 stuff

just leave it off if you're not replacing anything

[half dove]

what do i delete

[half dove]

i am

[regal sphinx]

looks something like this

probably portal_remix

might also help @modest bear if not done already

[modest bear]

Enhancemnts on

enhancments off

[regal sphinx]

do the thing above

[modest bear]

I never touched the texture

[regal sphinx]

should look like mine when deleted

i have my enhancements on

[regal sphinx]

^

[half dove]

can u be more spacific

i cant spell

jeus

jesus

[regal sphinx]

i mean is that picture not specific enough?

[half dove]

omg

[regal sphinx]

delete the folder pictured

reboot game

[half dove]

stop😭

[modest bear]

he don't got it

[half dove]

we both dont

[modest bear]

hes using portal rtx not prelude

[regal sphinx]

yes which is why i said something like portal_remix

[modest bear]

its not there

ik what it is

[regal sphinx]

so yall have nothing else inside your mods folder other than your own mods?

[modest bear]

its called "gamereadyassets"

[regal sphinx]

omg nvidia

[modest bear]

its named differently

[half dove]

bruh why they do that

[regal sphinx]

yes i see that now

[modest bear]

just confusion

[regal sphinx]

i dont have portal rtx installed for ref so i assumed since they are both nvidia titles they would be the same

[modest bear]

I helped him so he might be cooked

[half dove]

.

[modest bear]

to be sure though, you mean the one that the games orignal mod, like the one it comes with before you make it half life

[regal sphinx]

yes

[half dove]

all a misunderstanding

[modest bear]

okay yeah they called it gamereadyassets

[regal sphinx]

portal/prelude rtx share some hashes with hl2 and it breaks textures

[modest bear]

that actually is something I didn't delete

[half dove]

that could explain why out added textures are sometimes grey

I CANT SPELL

JESUS

[regal sphinx]

you know, i didnt even realize deleting gamereadyassets wasnt in the pinned guide

💀

[modest bear]

making the game, i refused to make anything

[regal sphinx]

or at least turning it off

[modest bear]

anything that I wasn't told to i didn't change about the base game

[modest bear]

gotta update the pin

I'll make one rn

[half dove]

nope did not

[regal sphinx]

hu

[half dove]

strange

so we assumed it was the same issue cuz some of our textures we put in are greyed out

ill tweak

but ion

[modest bear]

steps for portal prelude rtx/portal rtx hl2

🚨 Warning: you cannot play portal rtx or prelude without restarting this process🚨

1. Make sure both are fully updated

2. Open both half life 2 and portal rtx/prelude rtx in separate tabs on file explorer

3. Add the RTX.conf file (CR's Pin) into portal rtx or prelude rtx, when asked to replace file click replace

4. Copy the "hl2 folder" from half life 2 into portal rtx or prelude rtx and when asked to overwrite select skip these files

5a(Portal RTX ONLY). Open Portal RTX files and then open the rtx remix folder, then open the mod folder, then delete the folder named "gameReadyassets"

5b(Prelude RTX ONLY). Open Prelude RTX files and click on the rtx remix folder, then open the mod folder, then delete "prelude-remix"

6. On steam, go to portal RTX or prelude RTX, then click on the gear icon for the game on the right side of the screen, then click on properties and a window will appear, click on general and then you will see a box you can type in under the word launch option, then type in "-game hl2"

Optional step. this step both fixes issues and causes them, I'm not personally sure if it works on prelude but it works on Portal, what this does is fix flickering lights throughout the game, however this does break things like windows and makes rooms in the game darker, but the flash light dosen't work unless you do this step, I am personally working on fixes for the windows throughout the game and will update this message with my own mod to fix them, insert the "autoexec.cfg" file, the steps are: open portal or prelude, then open the hl2 folder, then you will see a folder named "cfg" place the file in there. You now know what to do it's up to you to accept the trade off

7. launch the game and enjoy

if you have any questions personally @ me and I will help you asap, and if what I'm doing isn't important I'll drop it to help you, don't be afraid to @ me and I will try to get this to work for you as my #1 goal

@regal sphinx

does this look good

pin it if you think it is

made it as understandable as possible

sorry for @ you btw

I made it this way and this as understandable as possible so no one has the issue I did

if there is anything you'd like me to change just tell me

[modest bear]

got the whole thing together now

auto my new steps to make portal rtx work, how you feel about them, want to make sure other ppl approve it and feel it would work for people who got bad luck and or don't udnerstand things like me

[fickle narwhal]

just so you know only server mods can pin. And yeah, it's well formated and clear. I'll pin it 👍

[fickle narwhal]

well done

[modest bear]

thanks man, that's why I @ multiple people idk who could pin

just tryna get others to read cause idk how ppl who got almsot know clue what a file path looks like to understand, like if that guy in genral chooses to read it and he can understand it, it's good, ppl who got minimal idea on what there doing to understand, so they don't got to go through the hard multiple hours between responses because they don't understand, like how I was

[stoic timber]

how do you launch lost coast from the folder (sorry Im very new to this stuff lol)

[modest bear]

idk much about lost cost but

let me try to help

your folder should look smth like this correct

or do you not know how to get to the game folder

[modest bear]

If not, go to your drive with steam on it, then program files 86, then steam, then to steamapps, then to common, then find lost coast

then send a screen shot of the folder your in

[stoic timber]

yes It does

im in it

[modest bear]

screen shot?

it's late asl for me so lets try to make this short and sweet

[stoic timber]

there sorry

[modest bear]

thats it

good

you know how to extract zip files

[stoic timber]

yes

[modest bear]

okay so open up rtx-remix and then mods

[stoic timber]

ok

done

[modest bear]

copy the file path so when you extract it it'll upload directly into the folder

depending on your specs this could take a min

[stoic timber]

extract what, the zip that I was talking about

[modest bear]

yes

extract the folder to the mod folder

paste the file path in here when you click extract

[stoic timber]

done

[modest bear]

okay now launch the game from steam and I think it should work

if not send me a screen shot of what's inside your mod folder

[modest bear]

Delete gamereadyassets

[stoic timber]

done

[modest bear]

Now try to launch the game from steam

[stoic timber]

didn't work

[modest bear]

Did you get an error?

[stoic timber]

no lost coast just booted normally with it's normal graphics

[modest bear]

Oka

Follow what I say Next carefully cause if you don’t know what your doing you def can freak yourself out over nothing and that’s what I’m tryna avoid

On your keyboard, while in game, click alt r

[stoic timber]

done

[modest bear]

The remix menu should pop up

[stoic timber]

no

[modest bear]

Really

Oh my fault

Ment alt x

[stoic timber]

it popped up nvidia's performance overlay

[modest bear]

Did it pop up now

[stoic timber]

no

oh alt x

[modest bear]

Yuh

[stoic timber]

lemmie try

no

[modest bear]

When you start the game,

[stoic timber]

no

[modest bear]

Huh

You got remix installed right

You do need Omniverse and remix installed

You got those?

[stoic timber]

ofc, im dumb but not that dumb

[modest bear]

Okay

So when you start the game do you see words pop up in the top left hand corner

That disappear after 10 seconds

[stoic timber]

no

[modest bear]

Okay so open the hl2 folder

[stoic timber]

ok

[modest bear]

Send me a screenshot of what’s in there

[modest bear]

Click on bin and then send me what’s in there

If you don’t see a folder named trex. In there we def got an issue

[stoic timber]

thats all

[modest bear]

Huh

That’s not right

Let me check my files real quick to make sure my I sent you to the right folder

[stoic timber]

I think you meant the main bin folder

the one outside hl2

[modest bear]

Possibly

[stoic timber]

it doesnt have trex either

[modest bear]

Okay

That’s 100% your issue

You got no remix bridge

Let me help you out

Like I said before I’m not to familiar with lost cost

[stoic timber]

oh i thought there was something missing

[stoic timber]

np lol

[modest bear]

So how did you set up hl2 RTX, through portal?

Or did you use smth else

[stoic timber]

i didn't 💀

[modest bear]

Ahh

Follow my pinned steps

If you got any questions @ me

[stoic timber]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[modest bear]

Keep in mind you do need to own portal RTX

Also just move the mod folder you extracted into the same spot as before

[stoic timber]

somethings very wrong

like a lot of the textures are see through, non-shiny things are shiny

[modest bear]

We could be nearing the point where my low knowledge of lost coast are gonna make things difficult

[stoic timber]

this aint lost coast this is normal half life 2

[modest bear]

Yeah the base game requires mods to be perfect, it isn’t close to done yet

[stoic timber]

ok

[modest bear]

I’m not 100% sure how lost cost works and dlcs work so try moving the lost coast folder from your original to the portal RTX folder

And stick to the mod of it works

To keep a seamless experience

And if you just want path tracing in the base game I’ll tell you how to disable enhancements so those reflections aren’t there, but the only thing you will have is path tracing

Did just dropping the lost coast folder work

If I don’t get back to you mid convo just @ me, that dont apply for other ppl in the server and def don’t apply for people who got roles unlike me

[shy gazelle]

pov hl2 rtx on a cert monitor

[mental summit]

is tis reshade?

[shy gazelle]

Nah these two

[mental summit]

hmm i used the go pro one before it wrked but now i use it the game becomes full bright and rasterized even when messsing with the shader options

with sharpeye fixed of course

[shy gazelle]

Hmm did you enable fisheye in post processing in the gmod q menu?

[tribal lotus]

You don't, you first install it from steam, then apply the mod files, then launch it from steam 🙂

[brittle ether]

Thanks, it work fine for me

here some screenshot of amazing hl2 pbr

[modest bear]

Yo that looks amazing

[modest bear]

You get it to work?

[brittle ether]

thanks

[modest bear]

By any chance, could I borrow your emissive map for the crossbow

[brittle ether]

It isn't from me but you can download it from this link

https://www.moddb.com/games/garrys-mod-10/downloads/default-pbr-by-gumball

and extract the folder and put it in Portal with RTX/rtx-remix/mods

[regal sphinx]

yea looks good so far to me

[modest bear]

Thankyou

[modest bear]

Thanks

[half dove]

does anyone know why im unable to click on some textures?

[regal sphinx]

in the toolkit?

its really buggy

sometimes you gotta exit the project and then go back for selection to work correctly

its really infuriating

[half dove]

well im in my remix project and theres this one texture i wanna replace but i cant click on it

i try exiting it

and going back

[shy gazelle]

Damn nice shots

[half dove]

ok so i found a sorta fix

i highlighted the wall but it has to be perfect to highlight the texture

[brittle ether]

thanks bro

[modest bear]

Okay the textures not appearing in my folder is because file explorer is broken

I was looking for a different missing texture and found out, if I search something, it doesn’t come up

[modest bear]

anybody know how to make fire not invisible

[regal sphinx]

i mentioned the fix yesterday^

[modest bear]

Thanks

[stoic timber]

help, no shadows in hl2. I tried verifing the files, and even reinstalling the game. still none

normal hl2 not rtx

[modest bear]

send me what's in your bin folder and what's in the half life 2 folder

[half dove]

can anyone help me?

my lights i add are invisible in game

[regal sphinx]

you cant add lights for source games easily

there is no stable geometry hashes for remix to place them

the only method i found to work is attatch a remix light to an existing model with a stable hash, the issue is that the light will show on every occurence of that model

so its not ideal for placing lights in maps

if you want to continue adding lights, do it via gmod by spawning lights in a map like you normally would; or make a unique model, import it to the game normally (not through remix), and then attatch a light in the remix toolkit

2nd method is by far the hardest if you're not already expereinced with authoring models/textures for source engine so i personally dont find it worth it

[half dove]

oh man

[modest bear]

I had to add the cilender lights myself

[regal sphinx]

yes but did you add it to the mesh or the geometry

[modest bear]

no

just tweaked it for multiple hours until it worked

[regal sphinx]

ah yes very descriptive

and it works ingame?

[modest bear]

yeah, give me a sec ill get you screen shots

[modest bear]

no orange juice though

[regal sphinx]

now i have to wonder if portal rtx has stable geometry hashes then

time to find out

[modest bear]

i tried to add anohter light somewhere and couldn't get it to work

idk why these did

[half dove]

im confused cuz like its not working for me but somehow he got it to work

so now im thinking like

[regal sphinx]

well my inital thought is that you added the lights to the mesh

which does work

but you cant add anything to the map and expect it to show ingame

because that relies on stable geometry hashes

[modest bear]

all i did was add a cylinder light and then tweaked the settings until i like the color and lighting and tried it in game and it works

[regal sphinx]

yea ik

lemme get a visual repesentation of what im talking about

portal rtx

gmod

notice the extreme flickering on gmod? those are unstable geometry hashes

[modest bear]

yeah

[regal sphinx]

the model is stable though

(the tubes)

and as i said, you probably placed the light as a child to the model which is why it works

but it should also work for geometry since portal rtx's are stable

[modest bear]

I'll give you a full step by step run down on how i got the light there, including the exact light i copied

[regal sphinx]

im sure you just spawned the light in the toolkit like normal and then tweaked the light

am i far off?

[half dove]

thats what he did

[regal sphinx]

the light settings have nothing to do with it not showing ingame, if it shows in the toolkit but not ingame, its a hash issue

[modest bear]

kind of. not excatly though

so I copied the light from the light that was above gordons suit, i took that light, and added a stage light as a sphere, i set up one tube, and then decided it didn't like the sphere, then instead of creating another new light from gordons suit, I added it from the light i created, then deleted it, from there I tuned the light

[modest bear]

If i'm understanding you correctly, if i moved the light, it wouldn't work

[regal sphinx]

i will try creating a light from scratch myself and see if it doesnt work

[modest bear]

okay

moved the light and it still worked

[regal sphinx]

yes geometry hashes work here

i spawned a light on geometry that is not a model and it shows

[modest bear]

so does it have working hashes?

[regal sphinx]

yes, i just said

[modest bear]

so why wouldn't his lights work

[regal sphinx]

i cant guarantee the whole game is like this but if a light isnt working, its probably a user issue

where is he trying to spawn a light

[modest bear]

Ravenholm

[regal sphinx]

specifically where

screenshot or something would help

[half dove]

ill send a screenshot

here

but in game it doesnt show

[regal sphinx]

isnt that light already there vanilla?

[half dove]

nope

[regal sphinx]

hmm ill see

[half dove]

its invisible in game

[regal sphinx]

geometry hashes are unstable here

[half dove]

that would also explain flashy lights

[regal sphinx]

that green roof doesnt seem to change so ill try spawning the light on it, btw you can view hashes like this ingame

[half dove]

alr

[modest bear]

how excatly can you identify a bad hash

[grand comet]

does hl2 use portals or is that a culling thing

[regal sphinx]

hl2 does use portals but this map just has unstable geometry hashes

im surprised portal rtx even has some stable hashes at all

[modest bear]

culling

[regal sphinx]

culling is disabled with this engine

at least when hl2's client.dll is patched

but portal rtx in its normal form has no culling

[modest bear]

aren't the flickering lights caused by culling?

[half dove]

just saying it happens in other places to

[grand comet]

i mean i was talking about the geometry, not the lights

[half dove]

its not just there in ravenholm

[regal sphinx]

then you're gonna have to find a stable geometry hash or go the darksouls route

[half dove]

👍

[grand comet]

what is the dark souls route

[regal sphinx]

#1103495588374401115 message
^

the latter

adding unique models to the game/map and then spawning lights on those

it works in gmod

[modest bear]

sounds complicated but not impossible

[regal sphinx]

its possible but im not really determined to go that far for hl2 since the offical rtx remaster is near

[grand comet]

authoring models lord have mercy

i did that once, never EVER again

[half dove]

2025 close?

[modest bear]

pretty sure darksouls is meaning run around in the dark

[regal sphinx]

idk im not nvidia

[half dove]

trust

[regal sphinx]

no it means hard as fuck, have yall played the games 💀

[modest bear]

yah

love em

[grand comet]

iirc dark souls you run around in the dark there

[regal sphinx]

im gonna go kms

🚪 🚶

[grand comet]

lol

[half dove]

trust dark souls is ez

[regal sphinx]

anyway ill see if i can get that light to spawn in ravenholm

[half dove]

alr

[regal sphinx]

with that one hash that was stable for whatever fucking reason

[half dove]

its basically 3 other lights past that light is broke

like the lights in the wood buildings are broke to

[regal sphinx]

viola

i spawned the light on this roof since it was stable

remember you cannot do this on models otherwise each time that model occurs/is spawned, that light goes with it

no matter the map

here is a cursed thing you can do

find a stable piece of map geometry, spawn all of your lights on that

[modest bear]

how can you tell if a hash is stable?

[regal sphinx]

i showed you earlier

in the geometry hash view on remix, if you move around and the color of something stays the same no matter how much you move, its stable

[modest bear]

sono flickering on geometry is stable

[regal sphinx]

yes

[modest bear]

got it

[regal sphinx]

if it flickers then you cant use it

but you also have to avoid models

i made a copy of the 1st light and moved it and as you can see it works

[modest bear]

created and placed it from one of the models that nvidia has in there library technically I could create a light there right?

[regal sphinx]

uhh no?

it has to exist ingame already

[modest bear]

okay

[regal sphinx]

but dont spawn lights on models otherwise you're gonna have a bad time

unless you're using a unique model that is never used anywhere else

[modest bear]

okay

[modest bear]

The barrel is in both photos just one has enhancemtns and the other don't
idk why it's invisble
any fixes
I did retexture the barrel

[tiny gust]

API+lua honest reaction

[regal sphinx]

when that happens sure ill sing that tune

[shy gazelle]

I wonder if the hl2 rtx team took the hl2 levels into hammer and somehow stabalized all the hashes

And if so, if the names of them will change/not crossover to gmod

[regal sphinx]

nah they did work on the engine

the levels themselves are not the reason why hashes are unstable

[keen vortex]

The dynamic light fixture shown at Gamescom 2024 is likely a result if in-game modification

[tiny gust]

The maps are modified

[narrow sail]

Does it make sense to do something about Half Life 2 if they release an official mod with a remix of it?

[fickle narwhal]

Depends. If you're hot shit with art and want to do your own take on it, go for it. But if you're concerned about visibility/attention, then avoid it. An official mod is going to be way more popular and probably bury any alternatives

[modest bear]

Or be like me and race Nvidia

[modest bear]

You can be like me and race Nvidia

Mines 100% a lot worse but let’s who gonna get it done first (they got like a 10 month head start at the least)

[regal sphinx]

there's also the approach of making mods for hl2 rtx itself, im sure there are gonna be a group of people that disagree with a lot of changes with the remaster

[modest bear]

That too, the suit being black now and the orange color being as pale as it is bothers me

[grand comet]

You could always make a hl2 rtx simplified mod

[modest bear]

Could also tune down things like path tracing for people on lower end hardware to enjoy it

[fickle narwhal]

Half Life 2 RTX will also have performance scaling options

[modest bear]

I could also make the suit look better cause I’m not a fan

[modest bear]

well I discovered a third option that I haven't looked too much into but I'll see if it works for everything, I added emission a light, not set very high, but it still produced a good bit of light, idk if it works for everything and 100% needs more testing but it's smth to look into if anyone else is struggling with shitty geometry hashes

[modest bear]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[tiny gust]

Awww

You are welcome

That did bring a smile to my face

[tiny gust]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/smod-tactical-redux/downloads

@dusky hound

[dusky hound]

how do I download it

Also I don't have hl2 installed rn

[tiny gust]

Its standalone

[dusky hound]

[tiny gust]

Download the standalone file then the patches

[dusky hound]

Which one do I click

[tiny gust]

Smod standalone

The top 3 basically

[dusky hound]

downloading that rn

[tiny gust]

Uhm, one piece of advice
Put it on an SSD, that shit takes a fuckton of time to load

[dusky hound]

sure

[dusky hound]

@tiny gust

[tiny gust]

Huh??
I remember it working without them

[dusky hound]

This is what I see when I launch the exe

[tiny gust]

;(

Im sorry if I wasted your time

But seems like you need to install them

[grand comet]

What's smod

[tiny gust]

WHAT

YOU DON'T KNOW SMOD???

[grand comet]

[tiny gust]

You genuinely dont?

[grand comet]

I do

[tiny gust]

Oh

Good

Did you play it?

[grand comet]

Never played it but I watched a friend play it on his home pc

[tiny gust]

Soy beans

[grand comet]

Wasn't allowed on violent games til i was 17 years of age, I played minecraft 360 all my life

[mental summit]

dayum me playing cod waw campaign at age 5 💀

[tiny gust]

My family barely cared
As long as its not suggestive

[grand comet]

My family was how you say, a family of apache helicopters

[tiny gust]

To some extent same

They were super paranoid the second i step outside the house

[grand comet]

Mine wouldn't let me go past 10 feet of the house, and if I had friends they had to approve of them basically💀

[dusky hound]

My dad used to play a suggestive game

I finished it when I was 8

[tiny gust]

Never had any because of them lol

[grand comet]

Were you homeschooled

To prevent the gain of friends

[dusky hound]

I think strelok is a saudi prince

[modest bear]

The Barrel is in both images, it's just invisible in the first 2nd one, I created a new mod that worked, then reset the texture in my old mod, left the working mod in, and It's still invisible, anybody know why?

[grand comet]

Istg how many times have you said this similar problem I've lost cout

[modest bear]

I got no solution bro

what you want me to do about it

Just gotta hope the right person sees it soon

[grand comet]

There is always https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1095455547748257862

[modest bear]

you right

[grand comet]

Where ypu don't have to spam it

[modest bear]

I ask like every 4 days and for info it's only been 5 times

[grand comet]

I mean it's sual fair but there is also always replies

[modest bear]

Only one guy has ever tried to help me with this

[grand comet]

Auto

[modest bear]

no

it was someone else

[grand comet]

I mean it's a strange problem that not many people know how to fix

[modest bear]

Someone out there might, I had the same issue before, I just can't remember how to fix it

[grand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/archimedes-physics-science-volume-displacement-gif-22083881

Gl on that

[empty salmon]

Since it is already finished, it would be great if someone copied it with VR MOD

[dusky hound]

not possible

[oblique stream]

You could just use rtx gmod with the vr addon

[regal sphinx]

it won't work

the vr mod uses external dependencies that rely on dx9 and openvr

[frozen lichen]

If I'm not mistaken, source VR team guy told that it would be possible to port enhanced assets from HL2RTX to Hl2VR

Maybe some day even with RTX

[modest bear]

Strong maybe

[grand comet]

Yall don't even understand how ass vr rtx would be

[modest bear]

For now, PC vr is good it’s just no one is trying to improve upon it, so there’s very little room for technology improvement because no one is trying

[grand comet]

Well no, rtx in vr would be a smooth and breezy 5 fps as it's rendering 2 separate screens of raytracing, its not vrs fault it's how intensive rtx is

Not only that but most vr tools use outside d3d9 libraries so it wouldn't function well

[frozen lichen]

Why we need to calculate rays 2 times?

[grand comet]

Wdym

[frozen lichen]

Maybe I'm wrong, but it should be possible to calculate rays 1 time, and then render them in scene for both eyes

[grand comet]

No, because vr is 2 displays in 2 positions that aren't the sane, not only that again most vr stuff uses outside d3d9 rendering libraries

[frozen lichen]

I understand that eyes are located in different spots, but perhaps it is possible to figure out some workaround for this, should be some space for optimization

[grand comet]

And the amount of updates per frame is crazy compared to just pc alone

[grand comet]

No, there really isn't

Its most likely not going to be any functioning vr rtx for quite some time if ever

[shy gazelle]

Yeah no chance unfortunately, because hl2vr runs on source, nothing can be imported directly to the game. 1 single 4k textures explodes the source engine, the poly counts in those models are just not possible. On top of vr as well

[regal sphinx]

most VR headsets are rendering at least 2K per eye, and introducing path tracing and enhancements on top of that? good luck

DLSS may already exist for VR but, especially with RR, the ghosting/denoiser artifacts would make anyone sick

[shy gazelle]

Oh god the ghosting, and the latency 🤢

[regal sphinx]

yeah especially on a non-native PCVR headset like a quest

the GPU will probably be too overloaded with remix to encode video to the HMD in a low-latency manner

[meager iris]

I know I'm a year late but I pasted the contents into my HL2 folder and it just loads regular Lost Coast, no remix or anything. Also is there only normal maps or is there also metalness, roughness, etc.?

[long raptor]

Can't wait to play hl2 in RTX!

[modest bear]

Me too, I personally don't like the suit they got, but cause it's remix I'm just gonna make my own version with the orignal colors and more damage

[long raptor]

I wonder how long it'll take them...

[grand comet]

Literally like its not that big a deal

[worldly heath]

Couldn't be me

[grand comet]

"No no, i take my time and look down the suit, really get in all thoes details as I see each miniscule piece of damage, each scratch, each dent before putting it on"

[worldly heath]

What about playermodel reflections?

[grand comet]

Even then your again not gonna be staring down the details of the suit you'll be busy with the game

[dusky hound]

Yes but most people in this server are weird

[grand comet]

Well you also gotta remember the stone guy exists

[dusky hound]

They randomly stop to stare at stuff like this

[worldly heath]

But does it have RT

Honestly Source 2 doesn't need RT, sometimes Remix looks like Source 2 to me which shows how advanced it is

[regal sphinx]

source 2 bakes its lighting just like source, just at a much higher fidelity

[worldly heath]

Well probably because they use raytracing to bake it which is why it might look on par

[regal sphinx]

iirc its raymarching

[worldly heath]

It doesn't specifically state, it's just referred to as VRAD

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VRAD_(Source_2)

[regal sphinx]

rip

[worldly heath]

Can I get a ray pie?

[meager iris]

I'm pretty sure baked lighting has been raytraced since Goldsrc or even Id Tech 2(Quake) in some way, albeit in a more primitive form than RTX or even Source 2

[worldly heath]

I heard Source did it, not sure about before that

[tall flax]

does it work with the episodes

[dusky hound]

It does.

[tall flax]

it doesn't seem to be working for me

[tribal lotus]

Dude, I made that on like Remix version 0.000001 😅 It's probably not compatible, sorry about that.

[tall flax]

half life horror mod rtx

[long raptor]

I think they are mainly focused on HL2 atm but HL2's episodes will get the RTX-Remix treatment they need when their done with HL2

[worthy hemlock]

Creeps your pasta 😃

[fickle narwhal]

for those working through GMOD

[shell ridge]

my hl2/source rtx just hangs on startup anything i can do to fix it?

[modest bear]

Send a screenshot of your game folder

[shell ridge]

Here ya go

[modest bear]

open the bin folder and send me what's in there

[shell ridge]

like the files or an image?

[modest bear]

an image of the files

inside the bin folder

[shell ridge]

ok

here

[modest bear]

It looks like you did not set up remix right

Do you own portal RTX?

[shell ridge]

yea

[modest bear]

Follow my steps below and then I think you can just copy the Mmod stuff in

If I am wrong I will still try to help you out

#1103495588374401115 message

There’s my steps

[modest bear]

did they work?

[shell ridge]

not even base portal rtx is working

[shell ridge]

also i reinstalled everything in my portal rtx folder

[shell ridge]

and now its somehow fix IDK how? because one moment it hangs on startup and the next its not.

[modest bear]

Yeah my friend had issues too, sometimes it’s just you got a app open, it’s taking up space it shouldn’t that shouldn’t effect nun, I call it a “remix moment”

Glad the games working for you

[shell ridge]

thx

[dusky hound]

Don't forget that you have to wait for shader compilation on the first launch.

[shell ridge]

wdym

?

[dusky hound]

It's exactly what I mean

[modest bear]

Bros on to smth ig

[maiden pebble]

the animation looking a lil funky btw the door is open

[grand comet]

Just the animation?

[maiden pebble]

idk

just everything

[modest bear]

That don’t happen to me, you use my steps or a different method?

[grand comet]

I would suggest the gmod steps

[modest bear]

Eh as g mod is better in some spots the hashes are way more unstable hashes by a lot

#1103495588374401115 message

[grand comet]

You can fix gash stability btw

[modest bear]

Top is portal bottom is gmod

[grand comet]

I can tell that lol

[modest bear]

You can, but why make it harder for yourself to fix most of em, especially when your new to remix, idk if this guy is or not, tbh it’s one of the better games to learn on in my opinion, I feel like, even though it pisses the shit out of ppl to need to deal with em with no clue what to do, none the less learning to solve these problems and needing to learn the solution has helped me limit how much I come to you guys for problems, because you become MUCH better at dealing with em

[modest bear]

Sometimes ppl ain’t always all there, I personally feel it’s better to clarify then to go off of nothing

I’m usually not all there

If you didn’t guess

It’s good when the room most people want to do is already together and ready for you to learn on

[modest bear]

I saw CR explain why portal was better one time, just can’t seem to find it

[regal sphinx]

tl;dr, both portal rtx games have the engines modified to stabilize instance/geometry hashes

its possible to have stable hashes in gmod by spawning a primitive with a unique shape. I can explain more in #1116089843479498782 if needed

[fiery plume]

Please do

[fiery plume]

How?

[grand comet]

Well the method above is guess

[modest bear]

What I understand, there’s more than 1

#1116089843479498782 message

This is the only one I know of

That’s not that other mod

[maiden pebble]

i did exactly yhe same

animations work just the body and doors are a lil weird

[modest bear]

Huh

Ts might just be a remix moment

[maiden pebble]

now the game wont boot idk why i reinstalled it and nothing

[modest bear]

Huh

That’s odd

Does it give you an error or smth

You can try launch it in the tool kit with the option that says “launch game” that sometimes stabilizes stuff

Idk why or how

[maiden pebble]

nope

[modest bear]

Did you launch with remix?

[maiden pebble]

i tried but remix couldnt find anything

[modest bear]

?

[maiden pebble]

im reinstalling AGAIN

but this time ima make a backup of the game

[modest bear]

I’ve done that a couple times now

But I mean launch in the toolkit

[maiden pebble]

through the rtx remix app right

[modest bear]

Yes

You click launch game, open the files for the game, then start the exe

[maiden pebble]

yea it coulnt find anything so i tried launching hl2 directly through the portal rtx files the game worked once

[modest bear]

It, couldn’t find anything, there should be in your common folder, then open portal, and then launch from the exe

You gotta click the exe yourself

[maiden pebble]

ok ima try that next

[modest bear]

Atleast last time I did it

See Launch game with remix

Last time I used it

It had me manually look for the game through the file menu it pulls up, and then click on the hl2.exe

[maiden pebble]

gameinfo.txt

[modest bear]

It says you need a gameinfo.txt

If it says that

The only thing I think you can do is verify files, which would fuck you shit up, I know on valves site, the have the regular half life gameinfo.txt available, just search for the game info txt on google, in the portal folder, open hl2, make the txt there, and then paste what the site has in

[modest bear]

Prob already been seen by most cause its in general but general a bit crowded

POM HL2 test, Half Life 2 20th anniversary is on Saturday and I thought it was possible it’d come out then, and the way it looks now, well at least get a trailer confirming a date

[shy gazelle]

what

[modest bear]

You don’t think there will be any new updates on the release of any new update on the project on the 20th anniversary of hl2 20th anniversar

[shy gazelle]

what

[modest bear]

Idk

Just thinking ig

Or hoping

[void nebula]

HL2 itself has been recieving bigger and more updates than the 25th Anniversary of HL1.

[modest bear]

We can only hope

[void nebula]

It's also rumored to get workshop support.

Which would be a game changer.

[modest bear]

Def

[keen vortex]

Breengrub seems to be active

I'm thinking it's a ARG related website for the 20th anniversary update

[dusky hound]

Amateur posing

Clearly not real

[keen vortex]

Add /civil_protection/ at the end of URL

It's a fake arg I know, just cool stuff

[dusky hound]

ye

Still not loading

you'll have to wait more

[keen vortex]

Use Time travel extension

Please don't be that one person who uses Firefox

[dusky hound]

ya got me there

[keen vortex]

The extension is available on Chrome

It lets you change time

Or rather spoof it

[dusky hound]

Not installing chrome

I shall wait

[halcyon totem]

New Reminder | ID:74532341

Alright uncleburrito, I'll remind you in 22 hours about:

breengrub

[dusky hound]

cool

[keen vortex]

It's just this though

[dusky hound]

ah

rip

Guess we'll have to wait for a few hours

For smarter people to do the smart people things

[keen vortex]

I'll wait for the documentary

Some hl2 beta stuff ready to be disclosed

[dusky hound]

1:30h video essay about how breengrub is fake and the creator is evil

[keen vortex]

No I mean the anniversary related stuff. It's gonna be good

Or at least what I'm hoping

[dusky hound]

oh yeah

It better come with hlx official announcement

What if they made breengrub look amateur on purpose?

[keen vortex]

Nah bro, it's really just a silly webpage to create hype or something. Not affiliated with valve it seems

And they are even reusing art from other people

[dusky hound]

Yes but valve could easily buy rights to use it

[void nebula]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477290/HalfLife_2_RTX/

Steam

Half-Life 2 RTX

The fight for freedom begins anew. Experience the award-winning game that has captivated millions of players worldwide with its immersive story, thrilling combat, and mind-bending physics, fully overhauled with full ray tracing, new hand-crafted, physically based textures, enhanced high-poly models, and updated lighting, all in stunning 4k. Half...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

[modest bear]

It’s beautiful

[void nebula]

https://youtu.be/5FZ49Ou8zAE?si=d-uhCsOQUVCZkcwD

[modest bear]

Guess my Journey ends here guys

I’ll be 100% for Portal 2 RTX

🙂

[clear sequoia]

Can't wait for MMOD HL2 RTX

[void nebula]

Already included as Gunship is on the team.

[void nebula]

Funny how everyone on Steam thinks HL2: RTX comes out this weekend.
They may have 100 people working on it, but they all contribute from home in their spare time.
It's not like they have an office to house all 100 and work on it from 7 till 5 day in day out.
There is a reason Black Mesa took this long, it was the exact same situation.
HL2: RTX has it easier even as the levels are already designed.

[modest bear]

Let me believe it bro😭

It don’t need to be true

Either way, the released the 20th anniversary video before the 20th anniversary, so they might do something out like release a beta version or review copies

[grand comet]

No

[modest bear]

What if, they got us all thinking that it won’t drop cause that’d be weird, but then it does at some random ass time

[sacred tide]

They'll drop 1 day after GTA 6

[modest bear]

Prob

[sacred tide]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-gif-27108854

[modest bear]

Before San Andreas remix though

Tbh though I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped the less likely beta/demo version, or the more likely but still unlikely review copies, like the video is for the 20th anniversary there’s 0 reason to release it 2 days before if they had completely nothing else planned for the anniversary

Even if it is just another gameplay trailer

(The most likely)

[grand comet]

they stated that tis still a work in progress, I really dont think its in a finished state by any means

[modest bear]

It’s still kinda weird tho don’t ya think

[grand comet]

no?

[modest bear]

Why wouldn’t they just release it on the actual anniversary then

[grand comet]

because they havent finished it?

[modest bear]

No

I mean there 20th anniversary video

[grand comet]

so let me get this straight

you think

[modest bear]

Or just release the steam page on the 20th anniversary

[grand comet]

because someone realeased a video

hl2 rtx will drop a demo?

[modest bear]

I said those are the least likely for a reason

At most like I said another gameplay trailer or gameplay stream showcasing a bit of another popular/memorable chapters

[grand comet]

they already did a day ago

like

[modest bear]

Yeah, it was chapters we already seen though

In different trailers

[grand comet]

that makes

0 sense

[modest bear]

Like iirc

Which I prob don’t

[grand comet]

dont you think meybe they are only showing thoes chapters because thoes are the ones they have in an almost finished state?

😭

[modest bear]

Cause my memory is horrible

[grand comet]

whatever man im gonna go cod

[modest bear]

Have fun

[modest bear]

They showed the 3 bits of chapters we’ve already seen, 2 months ago to a FULL YEAR AGO, you don’t think there’s a chance there’s atleast 2 minutes of stable gameplay in a separate chapter

[grand comet]

no

thats what i siad

[modest bear]

Eh, I mean, they’ve had the lab seemingly playable a year ago, nova prospect seems mostly done, there clips have covered 75% of raven holm, I feel they’d be atleast able to drop a 2 min video, maybe not even gameplay something like how they did with the ravenholm trailer 10 months ago

Yeah

Which there tripping harder than I appear to be half the time

They need to go back and play the original

I get that better than anyone, also just gotta remember there’s just people out there with nothing fucking better to do than hate, they say discord mods are the fat bastards but I think it’s really just those mother fuckers who don’t got nun more in there life to hate something they could never be able to do

[short spear]

if only we have a noCLIP documentery video.

[modest bear]

Yeah I guess that’s it, but, it’s still not the anniversary

(I’m not serious if you were wondering)

Maybe they’ll just drop some RTX on and off images

Like they have

But with different spots

I could also be that nostalgia thing, where you remember something way better than it is. Like, if you go back and play some WAY older games, some of the dark creepy environments will seem to be missing, and that’s cause you imagination filled it in. You go back and are prob like “shit, I remember this differently”

[maiden pebble]

how do i make objects not so unstable

[outer oriole]

HL2

wont work with 20th

atleast for me

or im just slow

[modest bear]

It might not work

I haven’t tried it myself

I’ll do it in like an hour or 2

[worldly heath]

Valve likes to update their games to Vulkan so they might have done it for the 20th

Or could just be because they updated the graphics in general

[shy gazelle]

Thank god it didn't break any rtx stuff for gmod

[outer oriole]

wont hook for some reason

or im just dumb

[outer oriole]

it hooks

but its broken

let me test

[tall flax]

I don’t got time for that they need to hurry there asses 🥱🥱

[modest bear]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-yoda-patience-gif-21069694

[grand comet]

Ooooo, this is ironic

[modest bear]

It was a trip down memory lane

I saw it and just had to do ts

[modest bear]

A flash back

Shit was only 3 or 4 months ago

Times wild

[grand comet]

2

2 months ago

[modest bear]

That was August

So technically 2 months and like 26 days

Not an exact amount of days cause I ain’t counting allat

[dusky hound]

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3368817963

Can anyone show me how he looks like in rtx

[quartz spade]

We do. It's on Valve's channel

[short spear]

I made that comment before the video was public.

[modest bear]

Just to make sure

We're all getting the same error

right?

[radiant phoenix]

its getting in-game with the classic setup but when you try to load a map the game crashing

ok i just had to many workshop mods, its working now

Half life Alyx rtx remix (REAL100%)

oh wow

the rtx remix lighting with the alyx hla model is perfect

[shy gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/miley-cyrus-creepy-miley-miley-blue-eyes-miley-cyrus-meme-gif-26915679

[modest bear]

Gotta figure out wtf is happening to me

Will return once I figure it out

[neat grove]

i imagine how it will look in hl2 rtx

[cinder kernel]

I see this guide and it is not working for me.

@modest bear After following this guide, should I run the game on RTX remix? When I run it on steam, I get the following error

[cinder kernel]

i download captures_hl2 and HalfLife2PBRPack. idk how to use it

[keen vortex]

Captures are not needed for mod installation. Use the PBR pack and place it in the root folder/rtx-remix/mods/

I do not know exactly if it's a complete mod with mod.usda and everything

[cinder kernel]

Ok i will

[modest bear]

So with the new anniversary update there seems to be a variety of issues

I’m getting the same error since the update and have been unable to come up with a solution at the moment

[cinder kernel]

aright, i will wait then

[sweet radish]

im struggling to get rtx remix and the new hl2 update to run properly, i see the rtx menu but the game isnt using rtx remix

[outer oriole]

it dosent work

i dont think

well it works

but

[sweet radish]

looks like someone got it to work here

[outer oriole]

idk how to properly get it to work rn

[sweet radish]

it just whitescreens on portal rtx

[outer oriole]

hmm

[sweet radish]

and copying the remix stuff over to hl2 gets me ingame without rtx effects

i can see and use the menu n stuff

maybe my gpu is just cooked cus i cant even open the base portal rtx actually

sdfkhsdguhhfsd

the fuuuuck

theres a driver update, gonna try that

[modest bear]

Mine don’t work at all so

Still tryna figure out what’s going on with that

[modest bear]

Do you get the error above

[sweet radish]

nope, goes in game just fine

i can see the rtx menu but no rtx

[modest bear]

Alright

Mines doing whatever the fuck that error is, still tryna figure out how to fix it

My PSU decide to tweak the fuck out so until I figure that out, know that this def won’t be done for a while

[sweet radish]

yeahh i cant even get regular portal rtx to run anymore

i have no clue what happened

[modest bear]

Yeah that happend to me to but I ended up fixing it

[sweet radish]

i am 100% doing something wrong

[modest bear]

Is that half life or portal?

[sweet radish]

half life

[modest bear]

Okay

You did delete the GameReadyAssets folder right

[sweet radish]

mhm

[modest bear]

And the the mod folder is completely empty

[sweet radish]

i have a pbr textures pack

[modest bear]

Don’t delete it, just move it to desktop and see what happens

[sweet radish]

what did i do

found footage hl2

h elp

sdafsf WWHAT

this is the funniest thing ever

the one time i got it to load with rtx and it did this

only to kill itself

[regal sphinx]

i had a BSOD caused from remix before as well lol

rare but also random

[sweet radish]

im so so confused

i cant get portal rtx or portal prelude rtx to boot anymore

yet this frankensteined prelude rtx files into hl2 thing runs as if its some cursed demon

is my gpu cooked i have no clue whats goin on anymore

this isnt normal is it

i wish i had shadowplay irl

[regal sphinx]

like a replay system?

lol

[sweet radish]

genuinely can't tell if im doing something wrong or my pc is dying

[regal sphinx]

nah ur fine

idk what's going on with prelude/portal method not working but its known the anniversary update for hl2 broke stuff

[sweet radish]

followed pinned down to every step, switched to pre20th beta and its still borked

[regal sphinx]

i can try doing a fresh install when i get home and see if i run into similar issues

[sweet radish]

ive reinstalled portal rtx/prelude like 5 times now

[regal sphinx]

there is a good chance the Half-Life 2/hl2 folder is broken now because of that anniversary update

so that would also break prelude/rtx

[sweet radish]

[shy gazelle]

Hmm looks like portal rtx works for me still

Lemme see if I can install remix to hl2

[sweet radish]

copying hl2 files into portal prelude or rtx just bricks it

even removing the hl2 folder and validating files doesnt fix it

[regal sphinx]

try it with the new hl2 folder from the anniversary update

[sweet radish]

running game w -textmode and -dev and theres 0 output in the console

cpu usage goes up to space but nothing happens unless i reinstall the game completely

[shy gazelle]

Yeah no go, anniversary update broke it

tried both folders, the old hl2 folder and the new one

Do you have gmod?

[sweet radish]

mhm

i didnt really wanna use gmod though

could i use sdk 2013?

[shy gazelle]

Worth a shot, I've never tried it but I'd imagine it'd work

[sweet radish]

the only bins are in sourcetest

fair i guess but

[regal sphinx]

sdk2013 stuff works with prelude

i was able to run a couple of mods just fine through it months ago

[sweet radish]

yeah no my install is cursed

clean reinstall doesnt boot

[regal sphinx]

do you have a autoexec lingering anywhere?

[sweet radish]

nope

[shy gazelle]

when you clean install, do you also delete the game folder in common folder?

[sweet radish]

yep

[regal sphinx]

do you have anything that injects to games globally?

also we're talking about the vanilla game not opening (no remix), when reinstalling right?

[sweet radish]

rn im talking about straight up portal prelude rtx

no changes

[sweet radish]

i have msi afterburner w rivatuner but i have it closed

the only other thing i can think of is the nvidia overlay

or steam overlay

[regal sphinx]

i assume you've done the whole DDU dance?
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/tree/6559f0d3ba82bd2eaefc0bf2898e3c9cf5af8cb7

oops

wrong url

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ccssm0/complete_ddu_guide/

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i suppose i can give it a shot

i just updated my drivers a bit ago

[regal sphinx]

gotcha

[sweet radish]

my pc is so cursed for this,,,,,,

[regal sphinx]

its probably not your actual hardware

also what is your gpu btw

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2080ti

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ye should work fine

i have a 2080

[sweet radish]

i usually run an undervolt w power limit

i remember that caused an issue once on portal rtx

[regal sphinx]

even to the point where you cant open the game?

[sweet radish]

nop just random crashes in game

[regal sphinx]

i've had stability issues with undervolting myself but i could at least get something running

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yea no it worked fine

until it didnt >.>

yea no cranking up the power doesnt help

[regal sphinx]

there is always the nuclear option

[sweet radish]

i hate running this on stock cus its a blower variant

[regal sphinx]

when in doubt, reinstall windows

[sweet radish]

this is a reinstall actually

<.<

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[sweet radish]

last time i touched portal rtx was on w11

using 10 rn

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hell portal rtx could even run on win7 since remix is vulkan

[sweet radish]

yea im clueless rn

gonna try ddu

[regal sphinx]

maybe the newest gameready drivers break portal?

i can try when i get home

[sweet radish]

yea im on latest drivers

thing is it

works? sometimes

like i nuked my entire common folder

and installed, it worked

2nd launch didnt

[regal sphinx]

only thing that comes to mind is the steam runtime

but source (and even remix), shouldnt need to touch that

[sweet radish]

i can turn off the overlay

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go for it

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nop

time for a 7th reinstall

[regal sphinx]

if the 7th goes to shit, try listing everything you do for the 8th, no detail un-noted lol

[sweet radish]

i can list it now

uninstalled from steam

deleted remainders from common

only random log files

[regal sphinx]

naw i mean like setting up your OS

[sweet radish]

huh,

wdym

im NOT reinstalling for rtx 😭

[regal sphinx]

like after windows finishing installing, list what drivers / software you install

ah i thought you meant windows when you said 7th

[sweet radish]

im only reinstalling prelude rtx

thank god my internet is fast

.>

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so to be specific, both portal games dont work?

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they sometimes work on a clean install, once

subsequent launches hang on a black screen

no crash nothing in logs