HL2 - Black and Pink Checkerboard Texture?

Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
different places?

I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that the
characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?

Any advice aside from reinstalling?

TIA
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BAMMO

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:21:18 -0500, "BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious"
<> wrote:

>Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
>different places?
>
>I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that the
>characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
>hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
>supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?
>
>Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
>TIA
I seriously doubt re-installing would do you any good. It's unlikely
the install would be corrupt enough to do that, but still be well
enough to play. More likely a video card issue, brobably drivers.

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You should start drinking prune juice and KY jelly cocktails right now,
that will make things a lot smoother.
-Felatio Love

Rolled drivers back to 4.3. Same problem. I see corresponding errors in the
log:

*** tried to load a non-VTF file as a VTF file!
Error reading material "materials/models/props_c17/fence_alpha.vtf"

The above is the fence texture, which shows up as a black and pink texture
everywhere.

I'm going to try defragging and see if that's the problem.

Any more tips are still welcome.

TIA

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BAMMO

BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious wrote:
> Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
> different places?
>
> I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls"
> that the characters keep looking at, and the suit of the
> administrator guy in the hologram, are black and pink checkerboards
> for me. I know they're not supposed to look this way. Anyone else run
> into this?
>
> Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
> TIA

Give us the details of your video card...

try those 4.12 beta drivers

ralph


"BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious" <> wrote in message
news:8FUmd.11338$...
> Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
> different places?
>
> I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that
> the
> characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
> hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
> supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?
>
> Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
> TIA
> --
> BAMMO
>
>

I've seen the pinkness after switching video modes. If I quit the game and
re-start, then its back to normal. I have an x800 XT with 4.12b drivers.


"BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious" <> wrote in message
news:8FUmd.11338$...
> Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
> different places?
>
> I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that
> the
> characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
> hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
> supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?
>
> Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
> TIA
> --
> BAMMO
>
>

"BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious" <> wrote in message
news:8FUmd.11338$...
> Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
> different places?
>
> I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that
> the
> characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
> hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
> supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?
>
> Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
> TIA
> --
> BAMMO
>
>
I was having flashing multicolored textures with the 4.10s - reverted to
the 4.8s and that fixed it. Also try disabling AI on more recent drivers.
Make sure desktop is set to 32bit.

System specs:
P4 1.8 @ 1.9
512 MB PC800 RDRAM (rambus)
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (256 bit)
SB Audigy
Win 98SE

I'm currently defragging. After six hours, I'm 53% through...

BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious wrote:
>
> Anyone else have a black and pink checkerboard texture showing up at
> different places?
>
> I've only played the game for a few minutes, but the "video walls" that the
> characters keep looking at, and the suit of the administrator guy in the
> hologram, are black and pink checkerboards for me. I know they're not
> supposed to look this way. Anyone else run into this?
>
> Any advice aside from reinstalling?
>
> TIA
> --
> BAMMO

Yes I saw it in only in 1 location so far in the map, it was in a tight
tunnel with those live droopy things, it was quite a small square
probably about 1", I took a screenshot.
Everyone else in this thread doesnt seem to understand it is EXACTLY
like a checkerboard.


this is my gaming system.. a7n8x deluxe, aiw 9800 pro, xp3200+, 768 megs
of ocz pc32200EL omega 4.10 drivers.

this is a game issue texture glitch, not a vid card/driver issue.

heres the url of the screenshot, it looks better if you download the pic
and toss it in a viewing app. on the web it doesnt have the perfect
checker squareness as it was seen ingame.

http://members.shaw.ca/gordsmail/d1_canals.jpg

> this is a game issue texture glitch, not a vid card/driver issue.
>
> heres the url of the screenshot, it looks better if you download the pic
> and toss it in a viewing app. on the web it doesnt have the perfect
> checker squareness as it was seen ingame.
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/gordsmail/d1_canals.jpg

For the length of times I've played HL1 and all its mods, this simply looks
like a missing texture/sprite.
If you get this from a custom map, go to the map's creator website and
re-install it. Downloading a custom map or other directly from the game
server will often 'forget' to d-load certain components.

If it's from an original map, take a look at the steam support forums for a
fix, or re-download and install the game.