Half-Life 1: Opposing Force Question

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I know this is a HL2 forum, but this was the closest I could find to a technical support forum, and since I bought it with Hl2, it's kind of tagged along.

Anyway, on to the question. When I run Half Life 1 or Opposing Force, everything is really really slow. The main menu takes about 40 seconds to load (this is normal I know, but just hang on), but when I get to the final menu, everything is really laggy. When I run my mouse of an option, I hear the click-click noise, but it repeats for a long time (I have yet to hear it stop). If I click on something, it takes about 30 seconds to load the next menu. I went through Options and couldn't find anything that needed changing and Steam doesn't need to install anymore updates.

It used to run fine, but now it hates me.

I have a 2.8 gig Intel Pentium IV, Radeon 9800 128meg video card, 1.5 gig of RAM (2 512 and 2 256).

Any ideas why this won't work?
 
Bit of a strange one. It's the first time I've heard it take 40 seconds to load the main menu too... Half-Life 2 takes about 40 seconds for me, but HL1 certainly shouldn't... I just tested Opposing Force and it took 5 seconds and I have almost exactly the same rig as you except I have half the amount of RAM as you and a 2.66GHz.

As for the laggyness, I'm not sure this would be a factor but in the console ensure that fps_max isn't set to anything really low. It should be set to between 100-500 (probably closer to 500).

Also click on Options > Video > And see what Video Mode and Video Type its set to. The Half-Life engine was pretty rubbish at rendering in Direct3D (whereas HL2 relies on it heavily) so make sure its set to OpenGL. Also it could be set to Software which would be pretty poor.

Additionally, what's your operating system and do you have it installed through Steam like Half-Life 2 is?
 
I was thinking it was the video aspect of it too, so I surfed through the Options and it was set on OpenGL like it should be.

I have Windows XP, and I installed it through Steam like any other HL game. My only though is that it could have downloaded wrong. I tried to download Opposing Force before downloading Half Life. I'll delete them both and set Hal-Life to downloading while I'm at school.

Thanks for the help so far.
 
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