problems with half life 2

[mayorredbeard]

I know this would be better placed on hl2 forums, but i want input from knowlegable computer peoples like the people on these forums.

When i start the game i get to the loading screen, then i get two error messages that popup and say a whole bunch of random numbers, then Memory Could Not be read on the same popup. I get two identical ones.

I ran memtest for 8 hours, no bad ram, theirs a crap graphics card in this computer, very low end and the graphics card was prob originalyl manufactured 4-7 years ago, should me putting my ned radeon 9800 pro xt fix the problem?

 

[airiox]

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=forums

Post something there, hopefully someone can help you.

What is your graphics card?

 

[mayorredbeard]

i did those guys are morons. my old graphics card is a Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller. new one im getting put in soon, radeon 9800 pro xt.

 

[TibsBeatAll]

yea man, it's the graphics card.

 

[rakedog]

I think it's refering to the RAM on the video card. because it's so old, it's probably 16 or 32 mb ram, which is not enough to play HL2.

 

[RAFDOG]

Yeah im agreeing with Rakedog but i also think its also the graphics card i mean H-L2 is a beastly game u need a good card
and how do u make custom avatars

 

[mayorredbeard]

wow you guys are so much more knowlegable then the tarts on the steam forums. i posted the same exact question with my graphics card, and they said it was becuase i didnt have enough harddrive memory......

makes me laugh everytiem. (also because i have 300 gb of hard drive memory including my external harddrive)

 

[TibsBeatAll]

lol, dat's right son son.

we the shizzzzz..
haha.

well, does it work well with ur 9800 xt???

 

[alvino]

You need at least 1gb of ram, and a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 to play Half-Life 2 on medium settings (maybe even low settings).

 

[RAFDOG]

SH!T i was gonna get it but im only running a 5200 geforce fx le and 512ram but im getting it upgraded wat would be a reasonable price to pay for another 512 ram or another gig