Ugh! Need help!

[ThrasherX9]

I've got a graphics problem... one that I didn't have before. My DirectX Hardware level was originally automatically set at 8.1. But I was messing with the settings that I saw at HL2World that would force the game to use DirectX9 so that I might be able to see bumpmapping or whatever on certain NPCs. http://*************/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=15811 that's the thread for reference. Anyway, I put this in my HL2 properties -applaunch 220 -debug -condebug -mat_preloadshaders -preload -console -toconsole -give -dev -heapsize 256000 -dxlevel 90 -shaderdll shader_nvfx_ps20.dll +cl_enablehud 1. So instead it has now forced my card in the game into DirectX 7 mode. Like... what the ****. How do I possibly get it back to normal. I tried simply changing -dxlevel 90 to 81 but it didn't work. I don't have pretty water or nice shadows anymore

[edit]: Pfft. the URL is supposed to say hl2world .com but it just puts ***** for some reason.

[editagain]: What the hell!? Is HL2world a profanity here?

 

[ThrasherX9]

Ok, how about this. Is there a way to reinstall HL2 without having to completely delete it and redownload it?

 

[henrym]

linking to hl2world isn't allowed (AFAIK, it had something to do with them quite openly supporting the leak).

Stop running the game with those command line options (specifically, remove -shaderdll and -dxlevel), and try deleting half-life 2/hl2/cfg/config.cfg.

Hopefully, HL2 will recheck your comp. and set suitable settings.

 

[ThrasherX9]

Deleted the config.cfg. No luck. Still has me set up for 7.0.

 

[henrym]

Hmm...

Sorry dude, I can't help then. I just tried to reset mine as well (even went as far as removing the whole half-life 2 directory), to no avail. It seems that these settings must be re-written back into the .gcf.

All I can think of is making sure you aren't setting anything else to with graphics on the command line except '-dxlevel 81', and then changing all the Video options back to the original values and hope that it works.