crashing in into and graphic issues in intro

[mistdragon]

hi there
after the unlock i ran the game, and of course waited for 20 mins because my firewall was asking for access.

after that cock up i clicked new game and the intro started, the moment the g-man came on screen there was what can only be described as huge spikes (irregular shaped polygons) coming out of various points. Then the game crashed with that "read" error message.

tried fresh install of drivers, updated directx, windows, everything is running latest drivers, and still not working.
any ideas?
ta

screenshots below (pic 2 and 3 show best)

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system specs:
p4 1.8ghz
1gb ram
radeon 9800 pro 128mb

 

[StardogChampion]

I've had this problem before with a radeon, a driver change fixed the problem though.

 

[dreaminblue]

Only time i've seen that is when I overclocked my card too much. Do you overclock your graphics card ? Is the graphics card getting too hot, heatsink still attached fine ? Is it only HL2 playing up ?

 

[MajorPayne]

I am having this same problem, and the fixes for everyone ELSE have not worked for me. I have tried ALL available ati/omega drivers for my 9600XT to no avail, and the graphics issues are only in HL2. To make matters worse, I can only get as far as you describe if I set my screen to 800x600!!!

teh suck :frown:

I have emailed Erik at valve, and hopefully will get an answer soon.