pleeeease help

[nismojspec]

Hey guys, quick problem, i got half life 2, installed it fine menu came up fine, then on the first level where the mayor guy or whatever is talking on the screen it keeps freezing and all i hear is city 17 city 17 city17 city17.Well i restarted my computer tryed it again got past that and I go tto the the part where u have to stack up the boxes to climb out of the window well after that once you go through the door it does a loading thing...........but it took me like 20 minutes and then after 20 minutes of waiting half life 2 closes and i get a message from hl2 saying sorry for the inconvineice but we have to close half life 2. Wat could it be this keeps happening and its pissing me off.Could it be my vid settings? they are all on medium and the game seems to runf ine till the loading. I remembered with my old grx card I ran the hl 2 demo fine. wat is going on please help.

 

[Selkcip]

Try turning down the graphics. I'm pretty sure hanging is very common with HL2.

 

[nismojspec]

tried it makes it worse actually............ any other suggestions?

 

[nismojspec]

also i have a x800gto,,, with 512mb of RAM u giys think that the 512 of RAM could be the problem?

 

[nismojspec]

well i have only 512 mb of RAM u think that could be the problem?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

HL2 should still run atleast.
Try updating your video drivers (ATI) and directx version.

 

[nismojspec]

can u link me the direct X cause i already updated ati yester day

 

[nismojspec]

sometimes when i get exited back to the desktop my screen resolution gets messed up and i will have to put it back to normal