Aiming issue in Half Life

Psymonkee · 16 Apr 2009 at 18:48

Quick and weird problem for any of you clever folk!

Just played HL2 Ep2 yesterday (finally!

) and now I'm feeling all nostalgic and want to play through HL1/Op Force/Blue Shift.

Just fired it up and got through all the nonsense in the test chamber and have discovered a major flaw. Firstly auto aim was on - eugh! However after turning it off my aim is off.

When I fire all my bullets I hit roughly an inch to the right and a little bit above the target indicated by the crosshairs.

Whilst I could just make some new crosshairs to counter this is there a known fix? Playing on the following system:

Q6600
9800GT (dunno drivers)
4GB RAM
Vista 64

Playing HL through Steam running at 1920*1200/32 bit colour

Any good ideas? Or bad ideas for that matter?

MikeHunt79 · 16 Apr 2009 at 18:53

try running it windowed at 1280 x 1024

Psymonkee · 16 Apr 2009 at 19:35

Ran it windowed, back to fullscreen and it's spot on

Thanks

MikeHunt79 · 16 Apr 2009 at 19:42

No problem, I often find widescreen resolutions play havok with older games... Stick it in 1600x1200 or 1280x1024 and you should be fine.

mame · 16 Apr 2009 at 23:20

play it while drunk, you will hit everything you aim for

Psymonkee · 16 Apr 2009 at 23:39

I tried that once in a clan match. Was my best ever game tbh

HangTime · 17 Apr 2009 at 00:03

You can probably use cl_cross_x and cl_cross_y to tweak crosshair location (these are the Quakeworld commands and HL uses a modified Quake engine)

Ghost in the Shell · 17 Apr 2009 at 19:15

Psymonkee said:
I tried that once in a clan match. Was my best ever game tbh

ahh the wireplay days eh