Problem running on new Laptop.

[Yama]

Hi everyone, sorry for being such a bother on my first post. Just last month my laptop bit the dust as the power went out and it wasn't under surge protection, luckily it was under insurance. It was a Sony Vaio-S (VGNS150) and was 1.6Ghz, had 512mb of RAM and a Mobility Radeon 9200. It ran Half Life 2 perfectly, to my suprise. With the insurance money I got a replacement, the same computer as it worked so good for me and my needs until that incident.

The new laptop is a Sony Vaio-S (VGNS580) and has 2.0GHz and 1GB of RAM, so the stats are improved. The one major difference in models (that I didn't know about), this time around they gave me the Nvidia GeForce Go 6400 insted of the ATI card. When the game first boots up it brings me right to a blue screen, flashes too fast for me to read and restarts the computer. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or will this game just not be playable on the new laptop? It would be a shame as I loved it so much and certainly don't want to have to settle for the icky console release. Thanks for any help, appreciate it much!!

 

[duffers20]

Hmm so this is when you first start HL2 yeh? If so, I would make sure that you have installed the latest drivers for your laptop video card. Also, have you tried completely uninstalling hl2 and then making a fresh install? could give that a try. Not sure really what else to suggest, hope this helps.

 

[Link]

Blue screen and instant restart is a hardware fault with something. Send it back, describe the fault, and tell them to fix it.

 

[Lahire149]

But first do like duffers said, and update your graphics card drivers.