Half 2 Bug

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Is anyone else getting this? Im on the first level where I leave the station
into the big courtyard. So I go right, then over the fence into the alley,
then right, then left past the 2 standing men, and then into the door way. I
walk down a passage towards a door and I get the 'loading' screen. But then
Half Life just comes up with the menu, its apparently failed to load the
next bit. And if I try to load anything after that I get a message "too many
vertices for a dynamic vertex buffer (11281 > 32768). Tell a programmer to
up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."

 

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:32:15 -0000, "gerxyz"
<news@gerxyz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>Is anyone else getting this? Im on the first level where I leave the station
>into the big courtyard. So I go right, then over the fence into the alley,
>then right, then left past the 2 standing men, and then into the door way. I
>walk down a passage towards a door and I get the 'loading' screen. But then
>Half Life just comes up with the menu, its apparently failed to load the
>next bit. And if I try to load anything after that I get a message "too many
>vertices for a dynamic vertex buffer (11281 > 32768). Tell a programmer to
>up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."
>

Try clicking this link. It will tell steam to validate your HL2 files
(check for errors).
steam://validate/220

 

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"gerxyz" <news@gerxyz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Is anyone else getting this? Im on the first level where I leave the
station
> into the big courtyard. So I go right, then over the fence into the alley,
> then right, then left past the 2 standing men, and then into the door way.
I
> walk down a passage towards a door and I get the 'loading' screen. But
then
> Half Life just comes up with the menu, its apparently failed to load the
> next bit. And if I try to load anything after that I get a message "too
many
> vertices for a dynamic vertex buffer (11281 > 32768). Tell a programmer to
> up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."

Yep, that's a known bug. Be glad though; the original message was simply
"Tell a programmer", but at least the game now states what you are supposed
to tell them 😉

As for fixing it? Of the top of my head: increase/decrease the heap size
and/or validate your cache files (instructions for which escape me).

 

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gerxyz wrote:
> Is anyone else getting this? Im on the first level where I leave the
> station into the big courtyard. So I go right, then over the fence
> into the alley, then right, then left past the 2 standing men, and
> then into the door way. I walk down a passage towards a door and I
> get the 'loading' screen. But then Half Life just comes up with the
> menu, its apparently failed to load the next bit. And if I try to
> load anything after that I get a message "too many vertices for a
> dynamic vertex buffer (11281 > 32768). Tell a programmer to up
> VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."

I fixed it by reinstalling, which caused Steam to download a very large amount
of unspecified data after completing the validation process (I think it probably
replaced a corrupted GCF file). There may be better ways Try what the
others said first, but reinstalling should work if all else fails.

--
Paul

 

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Paul Catley <paul.notreallymyaddress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> gerxyz wrote:
> > Is anyone else getting this? Im on the first level where I leave the
> > station into the big courtyard. So I go right, then over the fence
> > into the alley, then right, then left past the 2 standing men, and
> > then into the door way. I walk down a passage towards a door and I
> > get the 'loading' screen. But then Half Life just comes up with the
> > menu, its apparently failed to load the next bit. And if I try to
> > load anything after that I get a message "too many vertices for a
> > dynamic vertex buffer (11281 > 32768). Tell a programmer to up
> > VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."
>
> I fixed it by reinstalling, which caused Steam to download a very large
amount
> of unspecified data after completing the validation process (I think it
probably
> replaced a corrupted GCF file). There may be better ways Try what the
> others said first, but reinstalling should work if all else fails.

Thanks. Well I tried running the validate/220 thingi and it didnt complain.
And Ive just reinstalled it and Im still getting the bug. Any other ideas?

 

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"gerxyz" <news@gerxyz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks. Well I tried running the validate/220 thingi and it didnt complain.
> And Ive just reinstalled it and Im still getting the bug. Any other ideas?

Nope, sorry, that's what worked for me, though as I said, the reinstall wasn't
enough: it downloaded a load of other stuff too (it took 6 hours on dial-up,
after the 1hr validation).

Try emailing your problem to Valve support, though you will just get a standard
reply (I did). Maybe it's listed in a FAQ at Steampowered by now (seems to be a
common enough problem).

--
Paul