Half Life = 2K = Not Good

This is a discussion about Half Life = 2K = Not Good in the Windows Games category; When Im playing half life or counterstrike the game will jsut stop & I haveto ctrl=alt=del out ot task manager & reenter the game again which is really annoying. Athlon 750mhz GFMX 12. 41 DX 8. 0a Cheers.

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When Im playing half life or counterstrike the game will jsut stop & I haveto ctrl=alt=del out ot task manager & reenter the game again which is really annoying.
 
Athlon 750mhz
GFMX 12.41
DX 8.0a
 
Cheers

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Works fine for me, also TFC works flawless.

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Works fine for me too. Just wondering, is your CPU Slot or Socket version?

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works for me just fine too for over a year now...
did you install via 4in1?
running it in OpengGL mode (u really should)?
sp1/sp2 installed?

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theres a halflife inf file
for win2k
normally that is used if halflife doesnt even start in win2k
but i thought i would just ask u if u have the inf file installed
just a thought
another thing is i sometimes used to have progs runnin opengl in halflife but i fixed it unfortunately dont know how
was long time ago
so maybe try runnin it in d3d if u have it runnin opengl

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Updated to latest HL version? Original and older versions don't work in Win2k.

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i have simular problems but when it freezes it locks the whole computer and i have to restart the computer i am tryin somke different video card drivers and see what the out come is of that

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busby yr right
now i remeber if u update to latest patch in halflife it runs in win2k

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Quote:i have simular problems but when it freezes it locks the whole computer and i have to restart the computer i am tryin somke different video card drivers and see what the out come is of that
I belive that it only happens when you are running HL in OpenGL right ??
Cus that's what happend to me...
So i only played in D3D for a while and it never froze on me again...

what Gfx card and CPU do u have ??

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amd athlon and geforce 2 mx 64 meg

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Brian Franks has the link to a patch that AMD has made it should fix the problem with OpenGL :):
 
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Quote:i have simular problems but when it freezes it locks the whole computer and i have to restart the computer i am tryin somke different video card drivers and see what the out come is of that

I have the same problem under OpenGL & I've tried a whole range of NVidia WHQL drivers (6.22, 7.58, 7.76 & 12.41) without any success. I'm also running the latest version of HL (1.1.0.7).

This is happening on a PIII-based system tho so I wouldn't think its a Athlon-specific problems.

Its REALLY annoying tho as all my other games work just fine - I would stick to D3D for HL-based games except that it doesn't like ESC'ing to the menus (black screen - but from what I've read here previously that's another "known issue").

I've reloaded the systema few times since I noticed the problem (albeit really more so for 'housekeeping' purposes) but it STILL occurs (really annoyed me while trying to finish Blue Shift)

Has ANYONE managed to get this great game running under a setup like this:

Hardware:
DELL Dimension XPS T550
Intel PIII @ 550Mhz
CL 32MB Geforce DDR
CL SBLive Value
40&12GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drives
Toshiba 6x DVD
Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW
Lucent v90/v92-ready H/W modem

Software:
Windows 2000 Pro (+ SP2)
IE 5.5
DirectX 8.0a
Nvidia 7.76 WHQL drivers
SBLive WDM drivers


Thanks in advance for any help guys!