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Chopstick Head - 30 Sep 2006 18:03 GMT

I played this game all the way through (and Half-Life 1 Source, for good
measure) a few months back. No problems, whatsoever.
I did a clean install of Windows XP not too long ago, and a few days ago I
decided to play this game again.
But now I am running into this very annoying problem. The game constantly
freezes and the sound loops (kind of like when an agent takes over a person
in The Matrix movies, you know that sound?). I am forced to reboot by
turning off the power.
Not sure what the hell's up. I have all the updated drivers and everything.
F.E.A.R. does exactly the same thing, too, and even Civilization IV does it
if I don't turn down soundcard acceleration to "Basic", but unfortunately
this doesn't work for Half-Life 2 or F.E.A.R. They do it no matter what and
I've had it up to here, gosh darn it.

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Steve Evans - 30 Sep 2006 23:46 GMT

>I played this game all the way through (and Half-Life 1 Source, for good
>measure) a few months back. No problems, whatsoever.
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>this doesn't work for Half-Life 2 or F.E.A.R. They do it no matter what and
>I've had it up to here, gosh darn it.

Could be a hardware problem Try giving your system a good workout by
running memtest86 (memory), and acronis true image (whole system),
although the latter may be tricky if you don't have a drive to store
an image on. Check with your memory manufacturers site to see if there
are any specific settings for your system.
HL2 still crashes on me occasionally, but unlike before where it would
require a sytem reset, I can now alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del back to
windows.

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steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org
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Chopstick Head - 01 Oct 2006 01:18 GMT

Half-Life 2 and FEAR never crashed on me until I did a clean install of
Windows XP. It must be software related, right?

> Could be a hardware problem Try giving your system a good workout by
> running memtest86 (memory), and acronis true image (whole system),
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> steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org
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Lief - 01 Oct 2006 08:03 GMT

> Half-Life 2 and FEAR never crashed on me until I did a clean install of
> Windows XP. It must be software related, right?

Try different sound drivers.

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d - 03 Oct 2006 08:39 GMT

This is more than likely a driver conflict somewhere. I would start with
video driver. when you reformat XP is going to install one for you and if
you do automatic updates, it will put the latest known driver on your comp
for you. After reformatting you can update to a new one yourself. Just don't
go with the latest video driver. Start with one of the old ones.

Then go on to sound card driver if it is not the video card driver. I would
start all this from a fresh format and don't let xp update anything for you
until you try to run the games.

>I played this game all the way through (and Half-Life 1 Source, for good
>measure) a few months back. No problems, whatsoever.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> "Basic", but unfortunately this doesn't work for Half-Life 2 or F.E.A.R.
> They do it no matter what and I've had it up to here, gosh darn it.

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