Nothing Important Works At All!

Yolando

<div class="IPBDescription">The Menu, The Commander Mode, Uhg...</div> Problem A) When I hit the "Menu" key, (no matter what it's assigned to), the menu doesn't show up. Instead, I get this white fuzz up in the top left corner, remotely resembling some sort of words - it's the menu. I can actually select stuff, but I have no idea what I'm selecting, because the entire menu seems to be crammed into the top left corner, and all the words overlap eachother.

Problem B) In Commander mode, I have no mouse pointer... =/. It makes commanding difficult (far beyond my current skill). Yeah, once again, it's there, I just can't see it. I can select things with my invisible mouse, but it's quite difficult to find my way around the screen with nothing to go by...

I surpass all the requirements for the game, as far as the system goes. I really have no idea what this could be... Help!

Unknown

Are you running in software mode? If so, its not supported.

If not, then well....I don't know.

Epyon

Are you using direct 3d or opengl? Make sure you are using opengl.

Unknown

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You dont have to use OpenGL, but it is recommended. Direct 3D is not as good as OpenGL, thats why.

DOOManiac

I know exactly what the problem is for A.

Remove -console from your command line and instead open up CONFIG.CFG and change the bind for:

bind "`" "toggleconsole"
bind "~" "toggleconsole"


to

bind "`" "console 1.0; toggleconsole"
bind "~" "console 1.0; toggleconsole"

what this does is a simple alias so that whenever you hit your tilde key it enables the console even if it was previously disabled, ensuring you can *always* access the console, even without the -console command line switch.

as far as B goes:

are you using wickedGL, or another 3rd party openGL driver? Those can mess up the half-life vgui system. Don't use them.
If that's not it try hud_capturemouse 1

Hikeeba

Answer to A:

You're running software mode I'll bet. I use software mode myself since I get the best performance with it. AFAIK there's nothing that can be done about that right now except using OGL or D3D. You can still use the menu, but it's gonna' take some practice. If you have autohelp on, a description of what you're currently mousing over will pop up in the bottom right corner.

Answer to B:

Software mode again. Right now the only solution is D3D or OGL.

Hopefully software mode will be supported in the not too distant future. Until then you live with it or use hardware.