Still Defragging

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I'm hoping that this defrag allows me to play HL2 without pink and black
checkerboard textures everywhere. Longest defrag I've ever done: After 11
hours, I'm at 87%. It's only a 40gb drive... guess it'll be another hour and
a half.
 
I'm hoping that this defrag allows me to play HL2 without pink and black
checkerboard textures everywhere. Longest defrag I've ever done: After 11
hours, I'm at 87%. It's only a 40gb drive... guess it'll be another hour and
a half.
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Why don't you change your drivers like everyone else with the same
problem has done? What a defrag has to do with faulty textures, god
only knows.
 
BAMMO said:
I'm hoping that this defrag allows me to play HL2 without pink and black
checkerboard textures everywhere. Longest defrag I've ever done: After 11
hours, I'm at 87%. It's only a 40gb drive... guess it'll be another hour and
a half.
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Blimey...when did you defrag last?

Also, you using the windows defrag? Its soooo slow.

Go get Perfectdisk or similar (trial edition). I use it and its fast. Defrag
every week...keeps the disks sweet(er).
 
Why don't you change your drivers like everyone else with the same
problem has done? What a defrag has to do with faulty textures, god
only knows.
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I did try changing drivers. Problem exists no matter which drivers I use.

The textures have to be fetched from the HD. They exist inside large
archived files (The HL2 archive file is almost 1GB), and so I'm guessing
that certain textures inside the archive file are broken up across my HD,
and so the HD is failing to retrieve the entire texture file when it's
called.
 
Blimey...when did you defrag last?

I forgot to check that before I started, but I remember my last attempt was
more than a month ago and it failed because I didn't scandisk first. Before
that, probably August. I've been installing/uninstalling crap like crazy
too.
Also, you using the windows defrag? Its soooo slow.
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Yup, I've gotten mixed information as to the hazards and benefits of third
party defraggers.
Go get Perfectdisk or similar (trial edition). I use it and its fast. Defrag
every week...keeps the disks sweet(er).
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Windows defrag is usually fast enough. Usually it defrags this drive in an
hour or two. I'll have a look at that program though. Cheers.

It was very discouraging to finally get HL2 installed and playable, only to
see corrupted textures everywhere. If the defrag doesn't work I'll try
reinstalling. If that doesn't work, I give up for now.
 
Whats your system specs?

Could be a hardware fault, video card, hd, bad game install, corrupt
registry or OS, without system specs and OS hard to say.

I would check your hard drive manufacturers website for HD diagnostics!
 
BAMMO said:
I forgot to check that before I started, but I remember my last attempt was
more than a month ago and it failed because I didn't scandisk first. Before
that, probably August. I've been installing/uninstalling crap like crazy
too.


Yup, I've gotten mixed information as to the hazards and benefits of third
party defraggers.


Windows defrag is usually fast enough. Usually it defrags this drive in an
hour or two. I'll have a look at that program though. Cheers.

It was very discouraging to finally get HL2 installed and playable, only to
see corrupted textures everywhere. If the defrag doesn't work I'll try
reinstalling. If that doesn't work, I give up for now.
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Yeah...sorry I cant be more constructive...good luck.

I have used PD for months now... with NO problems whatsoever. I'm sure other
folk will recommend others but PD worked for me on W2KPro.
 
BAMMO said:
I'm hoping that this defrag allows me to play HL2 without pink and black
checkerboard textures everywhere. Longest defrag I've ever done: After 11
hours, I'm at 87%. It's only a 40gb drive... guess it'll be another hour and
a half.
Click to expand...
Don't forget to do a disk cleanup on a regular basis too
If you have enough space on your drive DON"T select compress old files.

Defrag will run faster if you clean up all the temp files and temp internet
files etc.

Also check at setting your swapfile (AKA pagefile, Virtual memory) to
something like min and max 1,500MB (this way the swapfile doesn't get
fragmented)

if you have a seperate physical HD of equal or faster speed:
IDE1: Master - C: System and Program files
Slave - E?: CD Burner?
IDE2: Master - D?: Archive files, Documents, swapfile, temp files
set in System Properties\Advanced
tab\Environment Variables
user variables and system variables, TEMP
& TMP = D?:\Temp\System (create it first)
Temporary internet files to D?:\Temp
my documents to D?:\My documents
Slave - F?:CD reader?

my 2 cents on increasing some perf
 
I've used Norton speedisk for a while now and am very happy with the ammount
of customisation (moves often used files a the 'fast area' of the disk and
the inverse also.
I also used to use Diskeeper at work with no problems to mention.
 
Well in my experience

1. I disconnect my ethernet
2. disable my virus scanner
3. disable any power management
4. disable screen saver/monitor off option

and it should speed things up for you

Mark
 
BAMMO said:
I did try changing drivers. Problem exists no matter which drivers I use.

The textures have to be fetched from the HD. They exist inside large
archived files (The HL2 archive file is almost 1GB), and so I'm guessing
that certain textures inside the archive file are broken up across my HD,
and so the HD is failing to retrieve the entire texture file when it's
called.
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Sounds nothing like a file fragmentation problem to me. My guess is
that your graphics card is on the way out. I remember when I
overclocked my Diamond Monster 3dfx voodoo for Half Life 1 and pushed it
so hard that I damaged it permanantly and everything went rainbow colours!

:)
 
Sounds nothing like a file fragmentation problem to me. My guess is
that your graphics card is on the way out. I remember when I
overclocked my Diamond Monster 3dfx voodoo for Half Life 1 and pushed it
so hard that I damaged it permanantly and everything went rainbow colours!
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I just got the card last week. It performs beautifully in all other games
without dropping textures: UT2004, Far Cry, Call of Duty, BF1942... judging
by the errors that show up in the log (see thread "HL2: Black and pink
triangle textures"). If the problem was video hardware, I don't think the
log would reference not loading the texture in question.

Defrag now at 99% so we'll soon know.
 
Mark said:
Well in my experience

1. I disconnect my ethernet
2. disable my virus scanner
3. disable any power management
4. disable screen saver/monitor off option

and it should speed things up for you

Mark
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Thanks. I unplug the ethernet and go into safe mode.
 
BAMMO said:
I'm hoping that this defrag allows me to play HL2 without pink and black
checkerboard textures everywhere. Longest defrag I've ever done: After 11
hours, I'm at 87%. It's only a 40gb drive... guess it'll be another hour and
a half.
Click to expand...

Dont waste your time. Defragging will have NO affect on bad textures
whatsoever. Its a video driver issue.
 
Don't forget to do a disk cleanup on a regular basis too
If you have enough space on your drive DON"T select compress old files.

Defrag will run faster if you clean up all the temp files and temp internet
files etc.

Also check at setting your swapfile (AKA pagefile, Virtual memory) to
something like min and max 1,500MB (this way the swapfile doesn't get
fragmented)

if you have a seperate physical HD of equal or faster speed:
IDE1: Master - C: System and Program files
Slave - E?: CD Burner?
IDE2: Master - D?: Archive files, Documents, swapfile, temp files
set in System Properties\Advanced
tab\Environment Variables
user variables and system variables, TEMP
& TMP = D?:\Temp\System (create it first)
Temporary internet files to D?:\Temp
my documents to D?:\My documents
Slave - F?:CD reader?

my 2 cents on increasing some perf
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Now that is a useful post. Thanks very much.
 
Dont waste your time. Defragging will have NO affect on bad textures
whatsoever. Its a video driver issue.
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Well it's still a good thing to do, I defrag my hard drives every day.
 
Inglo said:
Well it's still a good thing to do, I defrag my hard drives every day.
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Way overkill. The only time you should ever really need to defrag is
after a big application purging session. Failing that, once every couple
of weeks IMO.
 
Way overkill. The only time you should ever really need to defrag is
after a big application purging session. Failing that, once every couple
of weeks IMO.
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NTFS doesn't fragment as much as FAT32. I only defrag about once a
month or after uninstalling/installing lots of games.
 
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