My PC to good to play Half Life?!

[Hemlawk]

I just installed Half Life for old times sake, and give it a whoorl on my new pc. For some stupid reason it wont play the dang game... Why the heck not? Id used to run fine on my POS gateway 400mhz 100pc ram!

Im running a P4 2.4 800fsb, GF4 ti4200, DDr400...

[omalleytrading]

What do you mean "won't play the dang game"?

What does it do? Does it give you an error message? Is it just slow? What exactly isn't working?

[Hemlawk]

It keeps telling me to insert the cd and click ok. I do it, and nothing happens. My friend did the same thing and it wont work on his pc either.

When I get home, I'll see exactly what the message is....

[rastorize]

Did you happen to check for and install any of the patches available?

[Bob The Great]

If memory serves Half-Life has problems with computers that are above 2Ghz. I believe you need a patch.

http://ftp.wireplay.co.uk/halflife/patches/

I haven't tried those patches but they should work.

Also it might have been 3Ghz and above, I don't remember right off hand.

[JimJRJ]

Do you have more than one CD, like a CD and a cd/rw or dvd? Some older games have that problem if you have more than one CD drive and usually there is a patch by the company to fix it.

[Hemlawk]

The patches work great, thanks guys.

I cant believe how bad it looks, even on my good system. And I thought 5 years ago it was the bomb! lol

To make it look better, run it in OpenGL and turn up the Aniso and turn on the Quincunx! You've got more than enough power to make it look good!