i just played thru on hardest difficulty, and it isn't much harder than easy. but the ai seems better and its loads of fun :)
still only took 2 nights to finish, i reccomend hard :>
hf!
i just started half life again so i could have an idea of how it ended and get a feel for the atmosphere etc, started it on friday and just finished tonight, amazing fun :D
gotta download opposing force and blue shift off somewhere now tho to complete the story, haven't got those and have only...
yeh, i have this problem right now with my 4200, my fan has broken so i use a desk fan to pump air onto the card when i'm playing games, works fine but is really noisy, at least it doesn't crash, should be getting a radeon 9800 in a few weeks anyway, so that'll be sorted.
i have had dx9 installed for ages on my geforce4 ti4200
and there were problems at the beginning, parts of splinter cell were dodgy, gta3 didn't work properly (and still doesn't :(), but after some changing drivers i found some newer ones that worked! :).
edit: looking at your symptons on...