Ok so i bought HL2 like 6 months ago yet i finally got to play it for the first time yesterday. Before yesterday i could never play it because my comp would always restart right after the Valve intro (i think i made a thread on this earlier but o well). However just because i had nothing to do, i exited BF2 and tried to play HL2 and voila, it worked! Surprised, i played for 5 hours, then went to eat. So when i come back i try to play HL2 again and guess what, it restarts after the intro just like before wtf. So i play BF2 again and try to get HL2 working and on cue, HL2 runs like a charm. So my conclusion is that after i have run BF2 on my comp, i can play HL2, but not any other way. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
Omg
yea bf2 is like the game god it makes every thing els work or it fucks every thing elz up
Possibly has something to do with things BF2 is doing to your graphics settings... Sounds like HL2 crashes when it starts making a request to change your resolution/frequency/some hardware setting. BF2 does quite a few of these things itself, so maybe it does the thing that HL2 crashes on in such a way that it doesn't crash on yours... and then when you go to HL2 it says "oh, that's already done, don't have to do it" and thus doesn't crash you...
Sounds obscure.
Sounds obscure.
:S:S you really should do a recovery to your pc lool then re install everything....
that was the explanation i was floating on but not being a expert on computers i cant say anything for sure. +1 for backing up my original thoughts on the problemvanmani wrote:
Possibly has something to do with things BF2 is doing to your graphics settings... Sounds like HL2 crashes when it starts making a request to change your resolution/frequency/some hardware setting. BF2 does quite a few of these things itself, so maybe it does the thing that HL2 crashes on in such a way that it doesn't crash on yours... and then when you go to HL2 it says "oh, that's already done, don't have to do it" and thus doesn't crash you...
Sounds obscure.
Updating your video drivers should fix this problem.
oh yeah. well the other day my friend bought the same video card i have so he can start playing BF2 (nVidia 6600oc). Well we both searched for the latest drivers and found none, not evn on the nvidia site! can anyone give me a point in the right direction?
I'm kinda confused here.....you just said the latest nvidia drivers are not on the nvidia site? Are you joking?
ok i think ive been confused this whole time. are those drivers for ALL nvidia cards? i was looking for drivers specific to the 6600oc but im guessing there is just one universal one now? lol wow i had it all wrong this whole time. thanks for the heads up Defiance and ShotYourSix
theres 1 for GeForce, TNT, etcChyneseGUY wrote:
ok i think ive been confused this whole time. are those drivers for ALL nvidia cards? i was looking for drivers specific to the 6600oc but im guessing there is just one universal one now? lol wow i had it all wrong this whole time. thanks for the heads up Defiance and ShotYourSix