HL2 Crosshair - Was this ever solved?

Post by **wazoo** » 22 Nov 2007, 20:42

Just decided to boot up HL2 and noticed no crosshair in TH2Go.

Did a search and saw it was discussed last year.

Has this problem been solved?

Mark B · Post by **Mark B** » 26 Nov 2007, 17:48

That should have been fixed with one of the patches we did with Valve a while back.

According to the programmers at Valve they see the crosshair just fine when running in triplehead.

If you have done all your game updates/GPU driver updates and you are still having the problem I guess i'll need to get in touch with Valve again. :)

Can anyone else give HL2 a quick test to confirm their results to cross-check?

Thanks,

Mark

khula · Post by **khula** » 27 Nov 2007, 01:44

Yep.

Half Life 2
Episode 1
Episode 2

All work perfectly with the crosshair enabled. Even Fake Factory's Hi-res graphics update works with it - so bring it on!

Post by **wazoo** » 27 Nov 2007, 02:01

Yep.

Half Life 2
Episode 1
Episode 2

All work perfectly with the crosshair enabled. Even Fake Factory's Hi-res graphics update works with it - so bring it on!

Weird. I'll have to go back and check what I'm doing wrong...

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 27 Nov 2007, 04:44

Make sure you completely exit out of the game and re-load it whenever you change your resolution. Half-Life 2 and other games with its engine tend to do weird things to the HUD when you change resolutions, but quiting out of the game and starting it up again makes everything normal again.

benquin · Post by **benquin** » 30 Dec 2007, 02:40

I just tried back HL:S, HL2 and Lost Coast and there's still no crossair.
(Ep1 and Ep2 are OK)

I stopped and started back Steam with the same results.

I changed resolution to 1280x1024 (Got Crossair) and back to 3840x1024 (No Crossair).

Any hints ?

Post by **MobsterOO7** » 30 Dec 2007, 02:52

Well I don't have triplehead (yet) but one thing that I thought might be worth a try would be to see if you can find a mod for the HUD (which might include a different crosshair). Maybe the mod wont have that behavior?

Once I get my triplehead setup I'm going to look into modding the HUD for all the source games. I wont change it, I'll just adjust it so that everything is on the center screen. I've seen similar mods for other games that have been mentioned in the surround solution thread.

s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 16:09

That should have been fixed with one of the patches we did with Valve a while back.

According to the programmers at Valve they see the crosshair just fine when running in triplehead.

If you have done all your game updates/GPU driver updates and you are still having the problem I guess i'll need to get in touch with Valve again. :)

Can anyone else give HL2 a quick test to confirm their results to cross-check?

Thanks,

Mark

After I got my surround setup up and running, I decided to try Half-Life 2. It looks terrific but â€“ no crosshairs. (I havenâ€™t tried EP1 or EP2.) I contacted Matrox and they referred me to this thread, (I also e-mailed Valve â€“ no reply yet.)

You mention that a patch was done, working with Valve. Is this something I can download? Or maybe an update? I canâ€™t find anything on the Valve site, but I thought Iâ€™d ask. Or If you know of any work-arounds.

I have updated the video drivers.

Thanks very much

Mark C.

benquin · Post by **benquin** » 11 Jul 2008, 16:20

I guess I should also e-mail Valve, with enough request they might finally fix it.
It's strange that it seems to work at least for one person in this thread...

s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 16:36

It's the most irritating form of computer glitch - not universal.

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s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 17:08

Here you go. Sorry about that...

Post by **MobsterOO7** » 11 Jul 2008, 17:50

Yeah I just tried HL2, it doesn't have a crosshair. I'm going to install Smod Tactical to see if that works.

HL2 EP1 has a crosshair, albeit it doesn't have the quick info things that show your health and ammo.

HL2 EP2 is in the same boat as EP1.

s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 20:20

Let us know if if installing Smod works.

s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 20:56

I just received a reply from Steam support on this problem:

Hello Mark,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue. We are aware of the problem and are currently working on a fix for it.

We hope to have all of the known issues taken care of fairly soon.

Please check the SteamPowered News page (linked below) to get more information on the patches for known issues.

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news

benquin · Post by **benquin** » 11 Jul 2008, 21:01

It look like a B semi-automatic answer:
A- We are not aware
B- We are aware
I will send them an e-mail tonight hoping for the same answer ;).

s0ands0 · Post by **s0ands0** » 11 Jul 2008, 21:15

I'm afraid you're right, but e-mail them anyway. Your vote counts.

benquin · Post by **benquin** » 11 Jul 2008, 21:28

I hope it will count for the definitive solution :).
I will tell them about HL2, HL:Source and Lost coast, they all have the same problem.

Post by **MobsterOO7** » 12 Jul 2008, 00:52

So I'm an idiot and completely forgot that SMod: Tactical doesn't have crosshairs in favor of iron sights. D'OH!

ewan · Post by **ewan** » 15 Jul 2008, 20:18

I noticed the same problem replaying HL2 the other week. I Have the orange box version, but its all fully patched according to steam.

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