Level selection after crash

Black Mesa Archive In-game Issues (Mod)
#1

Every time the game crashes, for whatever reason (like, spawning an NPC with a non-weapon equipment rofl) the game does not record the levels up to the point of the crash - for example, I completed the game some days ago, then I went toying with weapons and the game crashed; when starting a new game, it showed me only the levels up to the last time I quit BM, not up to Lambda Core.
I tried crashing the game on purpose, quitting the game at another level, and it did the same thing.
I don’t know if this is a “normal” error with Source and it is also in HL2, but I can’t find it on the net and I never noticed it xd

And oh, by the way (don’t want to make another thread only for this) when starting the game or loading a save it shows the classic pink-black “missing texture” image… can I fix this? xD

#2

I’m pretty sure you can access all the available chapters after typing sv_unlockedchapters 14 in the console, hopefully this issue will be patched in a future release.

#3

Thanks! Now it’s perfect :slight_smile:

#4

Provide a screenshot please coupled with details on your hardware and software specs and a bit more details on the problem: where does it show pink-black checkerboard,does it dissappear after some time time, e.t.c., e.t.c.?

#5

It seems it happens only with some chapters “selected” as background for the main menu, the game doesn’t load the blurred image used and replaces it with the ‘missing’ texture; It happens both when launching the game and loading a savegame, so it starts as soon as Steam launches, fades out when the loading of the main menu finishes and reappear when loading a save. Loading a game after being ingame also has the same effect if the game still has that level background loaded in.
I can post a screen about it, but I think I gave you the idea of what I mean xD
So far it happens to me only (and always) with Residue Processing, the red-dust canyon with the tower at the start of the level.
The strange thing is, it shows the blurred image for a split second before loading the menu, then changes to the pink and black texture. Boh…

PC specs are Win7Pro 64-bit, AMD Athlon 5050e, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4600 S., BMS installed into the default directory, Steam ditto. No particular thing happened ingame before I noticed the bug.

#6

Em, I still don’t get it, TBH. What is the “blurred” background you’re talking about? As far as I can tell by default the game uses full-blown maps as the backgrounds named background01, background02 and so on up to background14. Could you please provide a screenshot after all so it would more clear what’s the problem you’re talking about. Or - even better - a video on youtube illustrating the problem.

#7

the blurred background is a .vtf texture file used for the background before the background0x.bsp has finished loading or if -console argument is passed at launch

#8

^ Yeah, exactly. Looks like one of them can’t be loaded or it’s missing, maybe my installation is corrupted xd

Anyway, if you really want, I can try to make a video as soon as I get some time on it :L

#9

No, there’s no need in it now, I’ve got ad understanding what’s all this buzz about :-). Hadn’t hit this one on the boxes I run the game on thus it reall could possibly be a currupted game installation. Then again, maybe not - we can’t tell for sure until you try to reinstall or ensure that your installation is OK in some other way ;-).

#10

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