Performance tweaks

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Performance tweaks needed urgently

Hiya,

The particle effect which eminates from the remains of the Citadel at the beginning of Episode 2 is absolutely killing my machine. Is there any way to drastically reduce it in quality, or even switch it off? I'm spending most of my time walking backwards so that I can actually get stuff done, because as soon as I look in its general direction everything falls over and I get loverley looping sounds and everything becomes veeeeery slow. :(

Any ideas?
 
I get the same exact thing on some of the "in-game cinematic" effects, namely the vortigaunt and advisor ones. I'm no comp wiz so I have no idea what exactly would cause those (other than the fact that my vid card sucks :P), but i found that the game recovers a little if you save after it slows down and then re-load right away. (I guess it frees up some memory so the cinematic effects can play more normally but honestly i have no idea).
 
What kind of video cards are you guys running? Do you have settings such as Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering turned on in your graphics cards properties or in the HL2 graphics settings menu?? What resolution are you at?
 
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