weird occurrence

I literally cannot see a single freaking thing. WHY is it so dark? Brightness is set to 2.6.

Playing using UHD 770 and 8 gigs of ram. The game is set to 1280x720 with everything in potato mode, I'm getting no issues with frame rate or crashing, just the game being literally impossible to see.

Who supposedly built this teleporter? The design doesn't look human. It looks like Alien tech which i guess would mean that it was built by the combine? But wouldn't that mean that the combine have already figured out intradimensional teleportation? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the entire plot of hl2 hinged on the combine not having figured that out? Isn't that why they're after Eli?

How am I supposed to bring this hat with me to the other side of this damn dam? All guides show an older version of this map where you could just toss it but it can't be done in the current build. Whose bright idea was it to make Gordon let go of physics objects after a certain speed?

The HUD in Black Mesa has a persistent bug where health, armor, and ammo numbers overlap and appear semi-transparent, making them hard to read.

I’ve tried basically every fix I could find, including:

• Windows display scaling 100% / DPI override
• Limiting FPS (fps_max 60 / 120)
• NVIDIA panel overrides
• Disabling HUD / UI mods from Workshop
• Launch parameters (-console, -oldmenus, -oldgameui, -dxlevel 95)
• Verifying game files
• Resetting resolution / cl_drawhud
• Fullscreen ↔ borderless windowed mode
• Different resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160)
• Vertical sync on/off
• Console refresh commands (hud_reloadscheme, cl_reload_localization_files)
• Clearing custom and cfg folders

Nothing worked. Seems like a persistent Source engine HUD rendering bug.

Has anyone found a working fix or HUD mod for this?

Running on Linux, I forgot the specs but pretty as shit as possible while still being able to run source games at like 60 fps

Why are they there?

i want to preface that this is not only my first halflife game but my first fps in general.

for most of the game ive been having a blast but things have uh been getging noticebly more difficult for me i didn't really have much ofnan issue till the end of questionable ethics the big shootout with all the marines just took me a while. and then oh god surfave tension while having soke molmenta i love has to be my least favorite chapter so far, it already had a bad start since i was so deleted from questionable ethics i ended up getting softlocked as i was so low on healtht and the game autosaved (borh autosaves and had no manul saves in the chapter) me right infrount of a spilder on. no problem i just selcect new hame and select surface tension. i get through it with relative ease tau canon the copter crowbow the fish and find the exit. from there on i do alright until after i get into the lambda complex where a bunch of vortagunts and alien grunts give me hell but i barely make it into the sewer area.

im currntly in forget about freeman and they have apparently not forgotten about freeman as ive been stuck fighting marines in the outdoor part.

just bought the game and the first thing I see is the amazingly obnoxious error model

like no mods no nothing some scientist models are just straight up errors no matter what I do, really immersion breaking

do y'all have any solution for this? I already installed it twice: once on C: and on D: disk and the scientist models are still rainbow errors omfg

the door is always closed, even when i restart the chapter or even the entire campaign

I got this after finishing MIT, one of my friends knew one of the scientist I think there name was Gina Cross, it was either that or Aperture.

There is black and gray line like that and it doesnt go away, any solutions?

I am trying to enable the hl2-style ui, yet the launch parameters don't work. Putting them in doesn't effect anything, the new ugly-ass ui is still there. Any help?

if you want more detail, ask if you need more to the story, but i wanted to play the multiplayer co op this 1 guy was telling me to leave because i was running to fast in the time, saying i had no friends (bit too personal) and some how made my crash. i was trying to be friendly but that didn't work, so if anyone knows a way to report or ban him, that would be great thanks

Title.

I have gone through all laser sections in a single go, reloading either an autosave, manual save, or quicksave when I got hit (so by the time I hit the jump pads I had not touched a single laser).

Despite this the achievement has not triggered? I tried looking online but I've found directly conflicting accounts - some say using quicksaves negates the achievement but others say that's just not true.

Any advice?

i want to see everything not dark pls helo me

I can jump in the Lambda Core portal to Xen holding one of them, and it does teleport me. But the method of throwing one item in the portal first, and then jumping in with/throwing in the other just doesn't work. After I throw in the 1st item the portal seems to be "spent" and just won't teleport me anymore.

I replayed the portal opening section like 5 times already. I reloaded at the opened portal as I'm about to jump in so many more times too. It just won't work. I feel like I'm crazy, because I googled and found multiple guides saying it's doable, and even talking about how to juggle the items on Xen, so it must have been possible at some point. Was it patched out or something? Some update that broke it?

*Basically the same thing that's happening to this guy, but his solution doesn't work for me :(

Solved: To the left of the Gas pump there are a series of ledges that lead to the exit.
It seemed there was something that I was missing.

I recently decided to gas the gonarch and carried the cyanogen from the labs to the gonarch's lair like Black Mesa's very own gnome chompski.

However, Once the overgrown land crustacean has reveals it's allergic to gas, the music keeps playing, the arena is still full of gas and if Gordon jumps into it, he will go the way of the gonarch.

Is my save bugged or is there something else that I'm missing?

When I boot my game up it is normally-lit and I can see well, but within a matter of seconds it just seems to darken to the point where I genuinely can't see in some areas. is this part of the actual game or something I need to disable in settings?

I really wanna finish black mesa, but the game is too dark and im getting headaches from it. I already tried those mat_ commands to fix it but it didnt work. Is there any workaround to it?

Ps: i play in windowed mode

EDIT: I turned the brightness all the way down and it solves the problem