Recent content by hadrian29

What are the minimum system requirements now?

Up until about a month ago, I had NO issues playing Half Life 2. But since Steam's big update (the one that let's it play on Mac) the game lags tremendously whenever dust is kicked up by a passing ship, or there is an explosion close by with lots of smoke, or if the lots of bullets are splasing...

I tried opening the console in the main menu and typing "sv_cheats 1" and "developer 1" before using the "fps_max XX" command. Still get the same message. Is something wrong with my version of the game? It's always up to date thanks to Steam.

So it should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 220 -fps_max 60 -developer 1

dabomb29 and Durcell: I get the same message even when I try it at the main menu. pNp_Oski: I added what you said, but I'm not sure it worked. Should the shortcut line now look like this: "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 220 -fps_max 60

I'm trying to cap my fps. But when I enter the command into the console screen, I get a message saying "Can't set fps_max when connected to a server." I'm just playing hl2 by myself. I wasn't aware I was connected to anything. BTW...TOTALLY new at this sort of thing.