Continuing freezing problem on my laptop while playing. Please help. :(

[billy269]

I will be able to play half life 2 for a few minutes and then all of the sudden the game will freeze, the sound will loop over and over for about a minute, and then the screen will go black. Why is this? Counterstrike works fine. I have also gone through all of Far Cry with no problems. My system is:

2.8ghz pent 4
512 ram
128 mb ati mobility radeon 9600

I REALLY want to play Half Life 2 and I can't. How can I fix this awful problem??????

 

[skarrob]

get a desktop

 

[jimbodoggy]

What settings are you running at ?

 

[billy269]

I've tried setting the settings to as low as they go, but the problem persists.

 

[billy269]

get a desktop

not very helpful!

 

[Beavis]

Welcome to the club.

My desktop does the same thing sometimes. Hopefully someone from Valve will read this forum and figure out what is going on.

 

[ank]

Adding the tweaks that have been floating around decreased my crashing from once in 20 min to once in 60min. It's worth a try. It may not completely solve your problem, but it might make it playable.
Add: +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1
To the HL2 Launch options. Let me know if something is unclear and btw, your laptop is more than powerful enuf for the game, so don't heed the "Get a Desktop" comment. One caveat though, it is possible that your laptop graphics card is overheating. Set it to stock if you are overclocking it.

 

[billy269]

I don't think it is overheating because sometimes it will freeze in 15 seconds. I will try the tweaks, thanks. And I am not overclocking.

 

[billy269]

the tweaks didn't help

 

[billy269]

any more advice?

 

[sirRealist]

Adding the tweaks that have been floating around decreased my crashing from once in 20 min to once in 60min. It's worth a try. It may not completely solve your problem, but it might make it playable.
Add: +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1
To the HL2 Launch options. Let me know if something is unclear and btw, your laptop is more than powerful enuf for the game, so don't heed the "Get a Desktop" comment. One caveat though, it is possible that your laptop graphics card is overheating. Set it to stock if you are overclocking it.

what exactly does "+mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1 " do, and is it somethign everyone should do?