Need help, the walls in portal are purple!

Strokes

Strokes

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alright, i have an interesting problem, I'm playing portal on my new desktop and this is what I see:
purpleportal.jpg

Ya know where its supposed to be rusty? its purple. everything else is fine, but just the rust textures are purple. Can anyone at least explain this phenomenon or help me fix it? Thanks!
 
does this happen every time? or just sometimes? this used to happen to me in counter strike: source once in awhile, it's due to missing textures, i could only fix it by restarting the game. i think i eventually fixed it permanently by reinstalling the game.
 
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The purple (sometimes purple/black) means a texture's not being correctly loaded by Source. Try minimizing and maximizing the game to see if that helps. If it doesn't then delete the game and download it again from VALVe's servers.
 
Yeah, restart usually fixes this.

If not, right click it in the My Games tab and go to properties.
Click Verify integrity and/or Defragment cache (one of this sometimes fixes but I forget which =/ )

Then if all that doesnt work, reinstall the game (look into backing up your save but I think its on steam cloud now (at least for some games) )
 
As far as I know Portal *isn't* on the cloud, I could be wrong though but the last check I made (about 3 months ago I think) still saved to your HDD.
 
This only happens on my new machine, not my laptop. Ill try and reinstall it, or find a textures pack or something.
 
Wow, how has no one else mentioned this yet? Another potential reason for purple textures in any source game (CSS particular) is way too high of an overclock. You might try turning it down and see if that fixes your problem.
 
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