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Half life 1 and other game problems.

evad_lhorg · 2004-08-02 20:53:58

I installed half life there earliertoday and its installed fine but when I go to start it the screen goes black and I can here the sound when the 'sierra' screen comes up and thats it. it stays blank which results in me having to restart. I had this problem with ff7 ultima edition. I dont know whats wrong. can anyone help?…

02-08-2004 8:53pm

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evad_lhorg

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I installed half life there earliertoday and its installed fine but when I go to start it the screen goes black and I can here the sound when the 'sierra' screen comes up and thats it. it stays blank which results in me having to restart. I had this problem with ff7 ultima edition. I dont know whats wrong. can anyone help?

and before you suggest my machine is crap, its well capable of running the two games in question

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#2 02-08-2004 10:11pm

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Whats your specs, OS etc.?

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#3 02-08-2004 11:00pm

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If you're running Windows XP (possible win2k as well) you will need to install a patch for half life before it will work properly.

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#4 02-08-2004 11:16pm

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evad_lhorg wrote:

I installed half life

Why?

kdjac

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#5 02-08-2004 11:29pm

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Because its a very good game?

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#6 03-08-2004 12:44pm

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My system specs are

1.7ghz amd athlon
768mb ram
dx 9
nvidia geforce 2 64mb mx/mx400(no idea what the mx crap is about)

Im runnin on windows 2000 pro.

its like the monitor shuts off when i try to start the game. you can hear the static.

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#7 03-08-2004 5:24pm

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no help???????????

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#8 03-08-2004 5:35pm

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Did you read this?

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