Choppy screen in higher graphics areas

[bigdogTX]

Help.. I am new to the game.

My screen slows and gets choppy in higher graphic areas..

any ideas.

Thanks.

I have a Pentium 4, 3.4 GHZ, 1 gig Ram

 

[The Brick]

lower graphics?

 

[DrDevin]

Can you provide your completely system specs, especially your videocard?

Your CPU and RAM are fine but you did not post which videocard you have and like most PC games HL2 and the Source engine require a good videocard to keep framerates up.

 

[Shasta]

Some specs of your graphics card COULD be helpful in solving a graphics problem. At this stage it sounds like you have a crap graphics card / onboard card. Everyone knows that more action on screen = slow-down and stuttering if you have a crap system / card...

It is natures way.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I bet you guys 100 reproduction credits that it's his video card.

 

[Beerdude26]

A tutorial for finding your system specifications can be found here: Link