If you remember my first posts a few weeks ago I played Stalker last year through November and had it fairly modded up. I think I only updated to 1.001 or 1.003. Had no problems with playing the game other than the usual lag related to huge stashes. Never had any other issues that I didn't create.
In preparation for Priboi Story 1.1 I've deleted my old game, cleared out all the mods, and then reinstalled the game and updated it to v1.005. Now I'm having problems just playing the vanilla game!
1. Simple but annoying. I like to have forward be the S key and backward be the Z key. I keep changing this in the control panel but every time I leave the game it resets to the default controls (W and S respectively) and I have to change it again. Any idea why it is doing this?
2. I'm getting graphical anomalies. Sometimes it'll be like watching digital cable TV or satellite TV and the screen pixelates for a second or only one object does. Other times it will be a brown/grey/whatever "wall" of digital something. Sorta just follows the terrain and extends up a little taller than the character is. I can walk right through it and it goes away. Next thing I know there will be "digital laser beams" shooting at me. Usually a darker color like the wall.
3. I've had it crash now several times. Usually when I'll go to do something like reload or open a stash. Everything freezes and then after a few seconds I'm at some sort of blue screen with a bunch of writing about a crash and advising me to restart the computer if nothing happens after a while. Nothing ever does.
WTF is going on?