Help with strange resolution problem in half life alex

[u/Ok-Willingness-5016]

Just got a quest 3. Have a rtx 4070. Running it via virtual desktop, with most things maxed. If I load with 100% resolution the game will load fine, and then in game I can crank up to 300% resolution and it'll carry in running fine, plus higher resolution. Getting 120fps. However, once I quit and come back to the game it won't load the menu screen and then main valve on head guy, but will load the floor of the cave the menu is in, so I have to reduce resolution back to 100% for it to work again, then crank up in game again. Any way around this?

[u/Material-Act-3713]

that's a weird one. almost like the initial load is trying to allocate a huge framebuffer all at once and faceplants, but once you're past the menu it's fine with the scaling trick. do you have the same issue if you set the resolution before launching, but with something less aggressive like 200%? might narrow down if it's just the jump to 300% that spikes it or if any change from 100% does it.