You never mentioned what Watt PSU you are using, this might explain some of the issues, the 6800 GT requires at least a 300W, however I recomment a 400W+ for this card.
The headcrab would probably latch on then realise I've no brain in which for it to control my body from... so would skuttle off :) Unless its like the gut puppet in dnd.... Which just takes over your motor functions..... hmmmm brians....
Seriously..... Your worried about sexual innuendoes? What the HELL!! The damn game allows you to blow apart aliens, and slaughter combine... AND YOUR WORRIED ABOUT SEXUAL REFRENCE
Aye, I've got two computers one with a nvidia one with ATI, they're bother overclocked by the max recommended on standard cooling (10%) and yeah I used coolbits with nvidia, just didn't like the drivers to be honest. It seemed to more hinder the preformace with the nvidia, although the ATI one...
I used the ATI ones they where fine, the Nvidia ones on the other hand, nah not my cup of tea, just didn't give me the preformance I wanted out of my card
I doubt that very much to be true as the company is under no obligation to take back a product that doesn't work on a machine. Its not a problem with the disk so its not there problem. Why would they then bother to install no cd cracks. And also a CD is no longer required, besides they still...
Nope, because you don't have to copies, its rather odd that you can't LAN, I can play in a LAN game with the same account, I use it to test skins, its helpful because I can see what they look like 3rd person. If it doesn't work I guess you'll have to do without, and don't get an illegal...
Your only ment to select a file from the bin folder so it can cert the directory, it won't let you launch HL2 however from 3danalyze (I have the same card) just boot up HL2 normally, I didn't really notice a preformance boost, but anyway.