This is also an easy fix for a crash which occurs when 'fov' command is used to set higher FOV than 93 due to original LOD calculation being tied to FOV.Īdded code that adjusts FOV based on your selected resolution's aspect ratio, so you see more things at once and actually utilize extra horizontal space if you have a wide monitor. Level of detail (LOD) value is set to zero -> fully detailed in-game objects regardless of camera distance, small performance decrease, original LOD feature wasn't exactly doing miracles neither when it comes to excessive polygon counts in certain player-created levels. Removed part of problematic code that has to do with lens flare effects that causes crash during gameplay when there are lots of lightning effects, but you should still disable Lens Flare Effects under Graphics options, they cause quite significant lag spikes. Increased amount of allocated memory for one of rendering routines (increases FPS a bit in more complex levels). Removed special camera rotation mode from 'back' special combo (forward-backward-attack).Īdded 2 active 'hitting intervals' for 'left' special attack. Removed special camera rotation mode from 'left' special combo (left-forward-attack). Prevented crash after selecting difficulty or pressing ESC while on the difficulty selection screen.
Official 445 Patch must be installed before applying this patch. This is All in One unofficial patch for Drakan: Order of the Flame and the editing tools, combining fixes from all previously developed unofficial patches and adding a lot of my own improvements, including better widescreen support, making the multiplayer component fully functional on modern operating systems and over modern internet and generally making the game more stable. \Half-Life\bshift_unlocked\media (use Blue Shift: Unlocked v1.1 to convert your BS installation to HL mod)įOV patch for Half-Life v1.0.1.6 and Blue-Shift causes the left and right sides of the screen to not black out when the game triggers that effect.
Make sure your ripping software offers ability to use ID3v1 tags instead. Important: The MP3 decoder used in the old version of Half-Life doesn't understand ID3v2 tags commonly added by CD ripping software and such MP3s won't be played.
Refer to the following list to see how to name MP3 files after ripping them from Half-Life CD: It's an undocumented feature that only became official with Steam version of Half-Life.
24bpp - instructs the game to run in 24-bit color mode.Ībility to play MP3 files as a substitute for playing soundtrack from CD first appeared with patch 1.1.0.9. 32bpp - instructs the game to run in 32-bit color mode (highly recommended unless your PC is ancient). One of these can be passed to improve picture quality: The game defaults to running in 16-bit color mode.
notopmost - Doesn't mark the game's windows as topmost in fullscreen mode. lh - Forces the engine to start with vertical menu resolution set to. lw - Forces the engine to start with horizontal menu resolution set to. noextracds - Prevent redundant switches to resolution 800圆00 under certain circumstances before finally setting user selected resolution (highly recommended). These can be added to Half-Life shortcut's properties in the Target field after hl.exe, see Here are some interesting command line arguments that I found while digging through Half-Life's executable. You may have to disable DPI scaling in Half-Life shortcut's properties in the Compatibility tab to prevent issues like game window going outside of the monitor if your display scaling is set above 100%. Select the game/patch version that you have currently installed by navigating to the appropriate folder in this archive, then extract the contents of the folder to your game's installation directory.
The patch includes patched files for the following games/patch versions: asi plugins not being loaded if computer doesn't have an optical drive.ĭon't ignore request for start of MP3 playback if the last track number that is/was playing is the same. As a bonus, the fix for incorrect MP3 files being played in expansion packs is included when using the undocumented MP3 playback feature in Half-Life v1.1.1.0.įixed an issue with MP3 support being disabled and. The patch also fixes the error about the game requiring at least 16 MB of physical memory that occurs on some systems. Field of view is also adjusted correctly for wide displays. WON version of Half-Life, which main feature is allowing user to set any resolution supported by the system when running in OpenGL or Direct3D mode. This is unofficial patch for retail, pre-Steam, aka.