Half-Life 2 Problems

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Indeed, I've done them all. Defragging helped the most (because that's where the textures are being loaded from), but it's still hanging for more than two seconds at some places. Very frustrating. I just learned that my copy of HL2 isn't updated because it doesn't recognize one of the new commands they implemented with the latest release.

Hmmm...right click Half Life 2 in steam, click properties, and under where it says automatic updates, make sure it says "always keep this game up to date."

If thats good, make sure steam isnt trying to load something in the background while your playing. Just right click on the steam Icon in your system tray, click monitor, and make sure steam isnt updating. Otherwise, im not sure the problem. I was having a little bit of it, not bad really, but STEAM's latest patch from December 22 seemed to help some for me. Now the stuttering is quite rare...not that it was a huge issue to begin with though for me.