half life 2 bug vista card

I installed HL2: Ep. 1 on Vista, and there is a slight graphical bug. I'm wondering if this is due to my card or Vista (I didn't play Ep.1 when my PC had XP on it). Basically when I get closer than 5 feet to Alyx her hair and ears disappear (become invisible), but further than 5 feet away it's fine. I'm running at 1280x800, all options turned up to maximum, except AA and AF (Vista really brings down the performance with AA/AF turned on). Anyone else have this issue?
PS: First time I played HL2 with an HDR capable card... beautiful. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

Ok, turns out it's not just that. I started playing again and the hair was fine, but the characters face now becomes invisible when standing 5-10 feet from her, less than 5 and its fine, and more than 10 and its fine. Also the game hangs at certain points (for like 5 sec, then resumes). I hope the next set of ATi drivers fixes these things. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

"Vlad" wrote:

I installed HL2: Ep. 1 on Vista, and there is a slight graphical bug. I'm wondering if this is due to my card or Vista (I didn't play Ep.1 when my PC had XP on it). Basically when I get closer than 5 feet to Alyx her hair and ears disappear (become invisible), but further than 5 feet away it's fine. I'm running at 1280x800, all options turned up to maximum, except AA and AF (Vista really brings down the performance with AA/AF turned on). Anyone else have this issue?
PS: First time I played HL2 with an HDR capable card... beautiful. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

I have similar abnormalities. When I run the CSS test in Vista, the image smears across the screen. And certain items don't even render. I'm running x64 on another drive on this same computer, and it's flawless. In other words, it's Vista driver related.
-Larry
"Vlad" wrote in message

Ok, turns out it's not just that. I started playing again and the hair was fine, but the characters face now becomes invisible when standing 5-10 feet from her, less than 5 and its fine, and more than 10 and its fine. Also the game hangs at certain points (for like 5 sec, then resumes). I hope the next set of ATi drivers fixes these things. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

"Vlad" wrote:
I installed HL2: Ep. 1 on Vista, and there is a slight graphical bug. I'm wondering if this is due to my card or Vista (I didn't play Ep.1 when my PC had XP on it). Basically when I get closer than 5 feet to Alyx her hair and ears disappear (become invisible), but further than 5 feet away it's fine. I'm running at 1280x800, all options turned up to maximum, except AA and AF (Vista really brings down the performance with AA/AF turned on). Anyone else have this issue?
PS: First time I played HL2 with an HDR capable card... beautiful. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

The next set of ATi Vista drivers can't come soon enough. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz Intel i945PM 2x512MB Infineon PC4300 DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB DDR2 (256MB HyperMemory)
"Larry Hodges" wrote:

I have similar abnormalities. When I run the CSS test in Vista, the image smears across the screen. And certain items don't even render. I'm running x64 on another drive on this same computer, and it's flawless. In other words, it's Vista driver related.
-Larry
"Vlad" wrote in message Ok, turns out it's not just that. I started playing again and the hair was fine, but the characters face now becomes invisible when standing 5-10 feet from her, less than 5 and its fine, and more than 10 and its fine. Also the game hangs at certain points (for like 5 sec, then resumes). I hope the next set of ATi drivers fixes these things. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

"Vlad" wrote:
I installed HL2: Ep. 1 on Vista, and there is a slight graphical bug. I'm wondering if this is due to my card or Vista (I didn't play Ep.1 when my PC had XP on it). Basically when I get closer than 5 feet to Alyx her hair and ears disappear (become invisible), but further than 5 feet away it's fine. I'm running at 1280x800, all options turned up to maximum, except AA and AF (Vista really brings down the performance with AA/AF turned on). Anyone else have this issue?
PS: First time I played HL2 with an HDR capable card... beautiful. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

You Guys are luckier than me, Since I bought my steam online I have to download everything, when I got to vista I can't download anything, it just says "Server Busy" but thats not true and Steam will not support vista at this time.
P.S. On my other Vista Ep.1 works fine and I've only had the disappearing issue once. Good Luck
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I installed HL2: Ep. 1 on Vista, and there is a slight graphical bug. I'm wondering if this is due to my card or Vista (I didn't play Ep.1 when my PC had XP on it). Basically when I get closer than 5 feet to Alyx her hair and ears disappear (become invisible), but further than 5 feet away it's fine. I'm running at 1280x800, all options turned up to maximum, except AA and AF (Vista really brings down the performance with AA/AF turned on). Anyone else have this issue?
PS: First time I played HL2 with an HDR capable card... beautiful. -- Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66ghz 1GB 533mhz DDR2 ATi Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB (256MB HyperMemory)

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:57:45 -0400, "Tomasz Bania" wrote:

You Guys are luckier than me, Since I bought my steam online I have to download everything, when I got to vista I can't download anything, it just says "Server Busy" but thats not true and Steam will not support vista at this time.

Why do you have to download everything? You can copy the Steam directory from your XP install or backup the files to a DVD or CD's. -- Andrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.