Black square around the sprites when you kill the Nihilanth

[UndeadScottsman]

When you kill the Nihilanth in Half-Life, he'll shoot out a bunch of energy beams, which will eventually impact the walls and make explosions. The sprites for these explosions have a big black squares around them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdqfM-OzKw

OS: Windows 7 Protocol version 48 Exe version 1.1.2.2/Stdio (valve) Exe build: 17:47:17 Apr 25 2013 (6027)

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[di57inct]

That's a sprite transparency issue.

[SamVanheer]

This is a problem with the map. Those sprites have render mode normal set, but should be using render mode additive instead.

[sabianroberts]

OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969

Hmm... your very, very old computer might be the problem! xD