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eonblue
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Okay, heres the low down.
Installed Steam and HL2 when it first came out - on this same laptop - had some issues but was able to play the whole game through.
Now I decide I want to play the game again, which has long since been uninstalled. In preparation I defragged, disk cleaned, reg repaired and defraged, made tonnes more space on my hdd, did all the firewall and updating stuff.
When I boot HL2, it goes to the loading screen. After about 20mins, though sometimes it's a lot quicker, my computer totally dies and turns off.
There are no error messages when the computer is booted again.
CS also fails load.
Have been searching cyberspace for answers, went through the Steam Support thing extensively.
The only thing Steam diagnoses wrong with my computer is, funnily enough, a video driver. It says my x700 mobility needs updating - however, HP does not seem to have the specified ATI driver available for this laptop, and the ATI site says the driver needs to be downloaded from my laptop manufacturer.
It used to work. Are there ANY solutions?
I_just_don't_get_it
Installed Steam and HL2 when it first came out - on this same laptop - had some issues but was able to play the whole game through.
Now I decide I want to play the game again, which has long since been uninstalled. In preparation I defragged, disk cleaned, reg repaired and defraged, made tonnes more space on my hdd, did all the firewall and updating stuff.
When I boot HL2, it goes to the loading screen. After about 20mins, though sometimes it's a lot quicker, my computer totally dies and turns off.
There are no error messages when the computer is booted again.
CS also fails load.
Have been searching cyberspace for answers, went through the Steam Support thing extensively.
The only thing Steam diagnoses wrong with my computer is, funnily enough, a video driver. It says my x700 mobility needs updating - however, HP does not seem to have the specified ATI driver available for this laptop, and the ATI site says the driver needs to be downloaded from my laptop manufacturer.
It used to work. Are there ANY solutions?
I_just_don't_get_it
