GF4Ti4400 and Halflife 2- Please Help!

[markey_b]

Hi everyone,

I just bought the retail standard pack of HL2, and when i try it run it, or Cs:s, it crashes before the menu saying i dont have a directx7+ video card.
As in the title, Im running a GeForce 4 Ti4400, and it works on my brothers comp which has a Gf2MX400. What is going on?!
NB. i have installed the latest drivers, 77.72 i think they are.

Please help I really want to play this game!

cheers,
Mark

 

[FictiousWill]

Before noobs jump in and tell you to go get a new card, I'll just pop in say that this card is easily capable of running hl2 and cs:s on medium settings at 60 to 100 fps.

That said, I have no idea what could be causing your problem.

 

[bosox188]

Yeah it should be running it pretty well. Try installing an earlier driver and see if that helps.

 

[Ti133700N]

And make sure you do all the windows updates (beside SP2).

 

[FictiousWill]

What helpful chaps! Welcome Markey. This forum is great, unlike this trash.

 

[Vegeta897]

Probably a stupid suggestion, but do you have the latest directx version, 9.0c?

 

[skarrob]

Maybe try reinstalling steam and the hl2.Also try omegadrivers.net.

 

[psyno]

Do you have other games working on that computer? Have you installed the motherboard chipset drivers?

 

[duffers20]

I would say download and install the latest version of DirectX. You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...20-bfbb-4799-9908-d418cdeac197&DisplayLang=en If that link doesn't work, then just search microsoft.com for DirectX.

 

[Ti133700N]

Well if he does all the Windows Updates he'll get the latest version of DX.

 

[markey_b]

a big THANK YOU to everyone that posted!

the omega drivers ended up fixing the problem.
next time major official updates come out ill give them a go, but its fine for the time being.

cheers

 

[holydeadpenguins]

I think that the newer drivers dropped support for some stuff on older cards.

 

[FictiousWill]

I think that the newer drivers dropped support for some stuff on older cards.

I think you don't know what in the hell you're talking about.