Sound Stutter thread?

[LostBok]

I've had to reinstall my OS, Steam and HL2 and the sound stutter is back - I THINK I've got the latest HL2 and def the latest nVidia SoundStorm and Radeon-Omega drivers and applied the more common autoexec.cfg changes (to smooth sound/video) again.... so some of the stuttering is gone, but it's still there when I go to the menu's to save, etc.... what were the other changes that needed to be done?

Pretty sure there was a thread in this a month back, but can't find it now.

 

[pr0nking]

Update? HL2. I no longer have any stuttering.

 

[CREMATOR666]

Agreed, did you get the latest update? :O

 

[LostBok]

hmmmm I'll check - it was whatever Steam spent a good few mins downloading when it first loaded..... it is set to "fetch latest updates" in Steam.... how do I check version numbers / force it to update again?

 

[LostBok]

I guess since I re-installed to the same directory (2nd partition on the Raptor), it may THINK It has the latest install, but actually doesn't.

 

[LostBok]

Any way to force it to download the update again?

 

[CREMATOR666]

Delete the clientregistry.blob in the Steam folder? That might work....

 

[LostBok]

what else will that do?

 

[pr0nking]

it'll update it.

 

[LostBok]

cool - just checking that I wasn;t gonna lose al my steam account details or anything like that too!

 

[LostBok]

okay - after all of that and then forgetting my Steam password (doh!).... the problem is still there!

This is not quite the same as the voice-stuttering on the original HL2.... it is more like a looping of the last 1 second of audio when you try to access any load / save menus.... it loops for about 10 seconds and then lets you in...

 

[sabre0001]

i get some stuttering too - 'ggood morning mrr freeman'
at first i thought it was deliberate but it happens other times during that too...

 

[LostBok]

that sounds like the original "texture thrashing" bugs that I put a whole bunch of things into the autoexec.cfg to smooth out and set the initial heapsize to 512mb.... this is v dif.

and when this looping occurs, the cpu usage drops to next to nothing....

 

[LostBok]

It is literally 10 seconds of looping - I'm writing most of these posts on my laptop while this happens!

 

[LostBok]

This is really bugging me since I'm somebody who likes to / needs to save and reload a LOT!

 

[Slainchild]

U Boksha?

Anyway, no idea whats causing the problem. Could be a dodgy soundcard, but I don't really know...

EDIT: You know you can just hit F6 and F9 to quicksave/quickload right?

 

[Shadow-warrior]

Its a well known bug and up to Valvey poos to fix.