use vegas, adobe premiere, or windows movie maker 2 to put all the large sized movies into one timeline, then compress them together into one smaller, well compressed file (use divx codec preferably, its the best)
i dont really want to buy something like dod:s unless i know what its going to be like..maybe if they release a promo or something and its impressive i will, but from the shots ive seen its just dod with weapon drop physics and reflective water.
you have a 9800pro and 1 meg of ram are you serious?
im going to guess that you meant one gig of ram :) and yes, that is normal, the world in hl2, or any video games for that matter, arent made up of just one giant world, its lots of smaller maps put together to make it seem that way. hl2 is...
i know telling you this probably wont change your mind, but hl:s was a major disappointment for me, all the original weapon models (not even the high definition ones, the originals with the really shitty arms/anims), everything was the same, there was shadows, and occasionally physics was...
thanks for the replies, and yes, i have that catalyst stuff, i downloaded it about an hour ago, it didnt work.
krofinzski: if you have the problem too, how do you play hl2?
yeah you gotta like go to the level and get it then change map back to the level you want to play with it on...or something... i dunno theres heaps of other threads with a better explanation in them
i got a radeon 9600se 128mb today (i know its old, but its better than my previous gf2mx 64mb). i ran hl2 (well hl2dm, i cant get into hl2 since i bought it) and it all ran great, it looked awesome, nice reflections, the models and sprites looked so much better now, but then after a few minutes...