After buying Half-life 2, I expected to be albe to put it in and play. As usual I was wrong. After many hours and many crashes and lock ups I have finally found a solution (I hope). I need to update either my Graphics card or soundcard. The graphics card I am using is a Radeon X800, which should run the game pretty easily. But when I took the system test thingamjig on steam I was given this result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/739/hl2problemomy2.png

 

 

 

Here is the problem and the suggested fixes from Steam.

 

 

 

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=150&p_created=1093320749&p_sid=EME1Kali&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0zMjMmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I don't know what my sound card is or how to upgrade it/ whatever but I do know that my graphics card is a Radeon X800, but I don't know how to upgrade that either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any help would be brilliant. Thanks in advanve.

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/MSI/Msi-Radeon-809-WHQL.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It mentions Half Life 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No worries, i hope i helped quickly, i know how much fustration it can cause.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use paragraphing! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Volks

Ok I downloaded the update, how do I install it? When I click on the obvious buttons it tells me that I don't have the right hardware or software installed.

Have you got the [Caution: ExecutableFile] file yeah? When you click on it what happens? Fault codes, ect?

It wasn't an [Caution: ExecutableFile] file, it was a folder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I go into the driver section and select setup, I get an

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"INF error, driver not found"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Try to set up your display adaptor with a standard VGA driver before running setup.

Um...Windows can search for you > Windows update (website) and sometimes driver updates will show up in the optional custom hardware downloads, and also right click > properties > settings > advanced > Sometimes it'll mention updateing the graphics card automatically (my old nvidia did but this ati has a it's own control center for that :) Catalyst Control Center)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you ever update the drivers when you first got the computer?

Um...Windows can search for you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't waste time with that....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First off, go to the ATI website and get the most recent drivers for your specific card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After it is finished downloading, uninstall your current ATI drivers, do this by going to your control panel and looking for an "ATI" icon (like ati control panel, or ati uninstall drivers) if you don't see it under there... go to your control panel again, and click add/remove programs and look for the ATI drivers if they are in there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now once the driver is uninstalled, restart your comp... once it boots up, install the new drivers you downloaded, then restart again, and you should be good to go.

 

Um...Windows can search for you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't waste time with that....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First off, go to the ATI website and get the most recent drivers for your specific card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After it is finished downloading, uninstall your current ATI drivers, do this by going to your control panel and looking for an "ATI" icon (like ati control panel, or ati uninstall drivers) if you don't see it under there... go to your control panel again, and click add/remove programs and look for the ATI drivers if they are in there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now once the driver is uninstalled, restart your comp... once it boots up, install the new drivers you downloaded, then restart again, and you should be good to go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers, that was the one that fixed it :D