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hey everyone, well I've been lurking around the forum as a guest for a while and I finally got half life 2 episode 1 a few days ago, I was really excited so I Installed It and went to play It and It came up with a message, your driver Is outdated blahlahblah, It's a radeon 9600 If that's any help. So I pressed continue anyway and got Into the game, now It's automatically on medium setting and I thought It would be best to keep It at that, so I play through for I dunno how long and then I got to direct Intervention, seeing as I only had the grav gun I went to get closer to the combine, but as I passed that like Jutty out section of wall the screen goes black and I can only see the HUD.

So I loaded the part that I had saved seconds before direct Intervention and set the graphics to lowest possible mode and went to the part, yet again about 10 seconds Into the chapter boom It's black.

So I go back and lod It again and set models and textures to high Instead of low, It's not Juttery It's all smooth, but It still goes black, so can anyone help me, If I step backwards It goes normal again It's Just after that Jutty out piece of wall.

If Jutty out piece of wall Isn't descriptive enough then I'll explain, right when you first go Into the chpter that big door goes up In sections Into the roof. Then you see some combine super soldiers down the hall, all the way down the hall there are little pieces of wall on either side witch stick In towards the centre of the room at the righthand side piece It's got lights In It and the left one hasn't. now when I pass the first set of these It goes black although I'm still playing It, I'm still shooting and getting shot and stuff/ So any help would be appreciated.

Also I'm sorry for the overly long overly descriptive post :o
 
oh yeah one more thing.....oh god I sound like that old dude from those Jakie chan cartoons lol, anyway, at the Intro theres no video, Just sound. Ta for the help anyway, I'll get back to you.
 
I am with joule. update your drivers. Also, you are capitalising every single I in your posts that begin a word... its okay, jsut a lil annoying XD, and yes you do sound like him. Hehe..
 
Hmmm... it said your graphic drivers are out-of-date. Drivers that most people update on a regular basis ie: check every month or so for new ones, as it is a regular part of keeping your system up-to-date. You are having a graphic problem. What could POSSIBLY be a potential and likely solution? Hmmm... I wonder... This is a TOUGH one...
 
oh yeah one more thing.....oh god I sound like that old dude from those Jakie chan cartoons lol, anyway, at the Intro theres no video, Just sound. Ta for the help anyway, I'll get back to you.

i have the same problem with only sound in the begining AND the end and video.
i have a radeon 9200 grafix card, i gues its not the best thoug:/
it also says that my drivers are not updated but i am a noob at this so i dont know where to do it. can anybody help me too with this???

correction: i downloaded catalyst 6.5 and now it works totaly super fine:p
 
9200?!?! that's worse than this one lol how does It even work...and yeah I realise about the I and J thing...I dunno why I do It? oh well, and the graphics thing Isn't my call, I probably gave you all a wrong Impression I'm not an adult lol. My dad decides these things but he's a bit picky about buying things every so ofter, and It's harder now than ever because we Just moved to australia, he'll update them sooner or later...and I really hope It's sooner...In the mean time I'll go play dethatch, thanks for everyones help :cheese: oh wait...ONE MORRE TING! lol does anyone hve any recomendations on what graphics card or drivers I should get and If anyone here Is from australia could you maybe hazard a guess at the price?
 
i have the same problem...

it also says that my drivers are not updated...

i downloaded catalyst 6.5 and now it works totaly super fine:p
See? This guy ^ solved it easily.

Graphics card drivers are TOTALLY free, and take hardly any time at all to download. Why ANYONE would be opposed to keeping their software up-to-date FOR FREE is beyond me. Your Dad doesn't need to open his wallet. Download the drivers yourself. Even if new drivers are against his religion, he sounds computer illiterate enough that he won't even notice. Drivers are a normal, free thing that need to be updated regularly, for new things to work. As you are finding out now.
 
catalyst 6.5 Isn't sesigned to suport Radeon 9600...although It might work...whada you think?
 
catalyst 6.5 Isn't sesigned to suport Radeon 9600...although It might work...whada you think?

Um.. yes it is designed to support the 9600. Catalyst drivers support all Radeon products.
 
well not acording to the site, yes It's designed to suport radeon but not 9600...but It's okay, I Just downloaded the newest one 6.9 :) so when It finishes I'll lod the game up and see If It worked.
 
well not acording to the site, yes It's designed to suport radeon but not 9600...but It's okay, I Just downloaded the newest one 6.9 :) so when It finishes I'll lod the game up and see If It worked.
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_65_release_notes.html
The Catalyst® software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

* Radeon® X1900 series
* Radeon® X1800 series
* Radeon® X1600 series
* Radeon® X1300 series
* Radeon® X850 series
* Radeon® X800 series
* Radeon® X700 series
* Radeon® X600 series
* Radeon® X550 series
* Radeon® X300 series
* Radeon® 9X00 series
* Radeon® 8500 series
* Radeon® 7X00 series
Do you believe me now? :p
 
OOOH oh right, doesn't matter anyway, I forgot to come bck and post that It's working fine now :D I've got quite a bit Into It but I'm stuck on 1 piece so I'll Just keep trying, thanks you lot!
 
WOOHOO I completed the game, that was good, although I would'a liked It to be a bit longer and stuff like that, still It was really good, I'm not complaining :) I;m a bit disapointed that the episode 2 teaser wouldn't work, I'll Just check google video or you tube lol, thanks everyone :D
 
i downloaded catalyst 6.5 i gues its a older driver than 6.9. but is it possible to use catalyst 6.9 on a radeon 9200 se card???? or will it just gett f***** up???

(please respond)

Yes
 
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