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Half-Life Installation - Help!!!

  • 28-01-2006 9:35am
    #1
    Lambsbread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭


    I've been trying to get the half life 1 anthology to work for the past two hours and its starting to get the better of me.

    Okay here's the problem, having just got over the fustration (or nightmare) of getting steam to work, but now when i load up the game, i cannot see any of the characters in the menu (see screenshot).

    Has anyone else had a similar problem?? I'm playing it on my inspiron 510m laptop with a crappy 64mb integrated graphics card, but surely it should still work. Any help at all is appreciated. Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭SolarNexus


    definitely looks like a corrupt installation. Uninstall, run checkdisk, defrag your harddrive, then restart & reinstall.

    try that, then tell us if it still happens.


  • #3
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    upgrade the graphics drivers first.


  • #4
    Lambsbread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Lambsbread


    Thanks for the reply SolarNexus. I tried that but still have the same issue. I am actually able to play the game, its just the menu's that are messed up and its the same for all games on the disk.


  • #5
    Lambsbread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Lambsbread


    Mutant_Fruit wrote:
    upgrade the graphics drivers first.

    just updated the graphics drivers, still same issue!!


  • #6
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    I've seen stuff like that happen when running Counter-Strike 1.6 on a PC with crappy on-board SiS graphics under OpenGL. IIRC Intel on-board graphics (which is what yours probably has since Dells usually use Intel chipsets) are usually useless at OpenGL too. Try changing to Direct3D or even software, though it will look awful.

    And yeah make sure you have the latest drivers (graphics and chipset - you might get better ones on the Intel website), and the latest DirectX might help too.

    I doubt it's a corrupt installation.


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