Crashes after changing advanced video options

[gamedude261]

Got hl2 about a month ago, I had to wait to get my dad's old computer until I could play. now that i have it installed it is not up to par with the frame rate. i was going to lower the video settings in hope that it would speed the game up a bit, but after i exit out of the advanced video settings screen and click on apply, it crashes and brings me back to my desktop.

I have and AMD Duron 1.2Ghz and 384mb of ram.
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro video card

 

[Kirkburn]

What did you try changing?
(The info u gave was, although the spec of ur PC which is nice to get, totally pointless without some idea of what you are actually doing)

 

[the_lone_wolf]

funny, i had the exact same thing happen twice tonight when i changed my model detail and texture detail around to see if i could gain a few fps

strange:dozey:

 

[gamedude261]

it doesnt matter what i change, even if i go into the advanced settings and dont change anything it will crash after i click ok and then i get the windows error sound twice.

 

[Kirkburn]

it doesnt matter what i change, even if i go into the advanced settings and dont change anything it will crash after i click ok and then i get the windows error sound twice.

Hmm, that certainly doesn't make any sense ... does this only happen with this window? Have you tried validating your game files?

 

[DrDevin]

You will get that error with that videocard. Did you know that you are using an incredibly old DX 6 card that is unsupported by half life. It will never get good frame rates. I know this because I have tried to get half life 2 running on the same card before. I have done every console command to lower graphics and it still doesnt help in most situations. Dont try to change settings just get a better computer. Also because its a duron it is actually below minimum CPU requirements because of its reduced cache.

 

[Kirkburn]

You will get that error with that videocard. Did you know that you are using an incredibly old DX 6 card that is unsupported by half life. It will never get good frame rates. I know this because I have tried to get half life 2 running on the same card before. I have done every console command to lower graphics and it still doesnt help in most situations. Dont try to change settings just get a better computer. Also because its a duron it is actually below minimum CPU requirements because of its reduced cache.

Aha! This man is a genius. I agree with him too ...

 

[VirusType2]

Try This.

it doesnt matter what i change, even if i go into the advanced settings and dont change anything it will crash after i click ok and then i get the windows error sound twice.

These are some good comands here and should help.

Try.

go into the options menu of Half-Life2

go into the control settings and click on console

Type- or copy and paste- 1 or all 3 of these commands:

+map_background none (this removes the main menu graphics. NOW you may adjust your video settings. Adjusting them while mid-game is good chance your system will fail to respond or crash to desktop)

+mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0
(this made my game run much better but YOUR game may not work untill you erase it) OK?

+mat_mipmaptextures 0
(this is a fix if you have screwed up textures, but you can type a 1 instead of 0 and your game will work alot smoother on a slow computer.

*be sure and put a space in between multiple entries(if you type more than one) like this:

+map_background none +mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0 +mat_mipmaptextures 0

press RETURN


Please let me know if this fixed it brotha, But try everything first

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