2010-11-02, 04:49 PM
I've only been to Zak twice and it was long ago (before the major increase in Vista/7 bugs) and I did experience that issue although it was right as the final form died. I came back with the exp from the kill, so I somehow managed to survive through most of it without changing graphics or anything (couldn't do it as a bowman without auto-pot anyway).
As for the more recent and prevalent issues, I had the issues from either .88 or .89 up until .90 or .91 (my memory is failing me again). The issues were the same that everyone has talked about; cc, MTS, CS, portals, and just being on for too long all dced me consistently. It was initially only fixed for me via logging in from the website, but now it seems to work from launcher as well. Bugs just seem so random among people since when my problems stopped, others I knew only started experiencing them. Using a nVidia on a Vista Ultimate 64-Bit system.
One thing to note though, and it may only be a coincidence, is that once MS started working again, I've started having rare issues with any program running on the HL2 engine. When the game is started it will black out and minimize, but if I choose to open it, it will black screen to a "non-supported input" screen and nothing I can do except for restarting the computer fixes it. I only replaced this card last holiday season and am fairly certain that it isn't dieing yet, but those comments above about possible memory leaks have me concerned that it might have been why my cards have died so frequently over the last couple of years.
As for the more recent and prevalent issues, I had the issues from either .88 or .89 up until .90 or .91 (my memory is failing me again). The issues were the same that everyone has talked about; cc, MTS, CS, portals, and just being on for too long all dced me consistently. It was initially only fixed for me via logging in from the website, but now it seems to work from launcher as well. Bugs just seem so random among people since when my problems stopped, others I knew only started experiencing them. Using a nVidia on a Vista Ultimate 64-Bit system.
One thing to note though, and it may only be a coincidence, is that once MS started working again, I've started having rare issues with any program running on the HL2 engine. When the game is started it will black out and minimize, but if I choose to open it, it will black screen to a "non-supported input" screen and nothing I can do except for restarting the computer fixes it. I only replaced this card last holiday season and am fairly certain that it isn't dieing yet, but those comments above about possible memory leaks have me concerned that it might have been why my cards have died so frequently over the last couple of years.