Problem starting HL2

[sebt]

Hey, IM new to this forums and I have a problem with my HL2, whenever I start it the game loads until the load screen (the bllury street with Load sign at lower right corner) then the game exits and I get error "Failed to set video mode" then when I click OK it tries again and then return error thet I need hardware supported by at least DirectX 7.0

My graphic card is GeForce 4 MX Integrated GPU with latest drivers also I have DIrectX 9.0c

Is there a way to make it work ?

thanks,

 

[sebt]

I also tried with "-console"

Forgot ot mention it when I was writing before

 

[Beerdude26]

You can edit your posts, you know

Double posting (two posts immediatly after each other) is heavily frowned upon here

First off : Your graphic card is too weak. It'll probably be able to play it, but it will be miserable quality. I think there's a solution for your problem somewhere on these forums, I've seen the thread recently. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[sebt]

My graphic card has 128mb its good enough to run HL2

 

[Is This Tea]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86419
check out this link.

 

[Beerdude26]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86062
this one maybe too. What you should do is downgrade your drivers (that thread has a link to the drivers).

Could you give us the specifications of your computer? (You can find detailed information by pressing Start-->Execute-->Type in : dxdiag)
Now copy the information on that first tabpage and show it.

 

[Drackard]

First off : Your graphic card is too weak. It'll probably be able to play it, but it will be miserable quality.

Not true, originally on HL2's release i was playing on a Geforce 4 MX 440SE 64.0mb with 256mb DDR RAM and an Intel Celeron 2.5ghz CPU, i then upgraded to 768mb RAM, and a 9600SE 128mb which ran a lot better but now i have upgraded to an AGP X700 256mb and gonna get a new mobo with AMD Athlon 64 3200 + and upgrade to 1024gb ram so i will be pretty much sorted, even if i have completed hl2

 

[giant384]

do u have the newest drivers from nvidia usually those caused problems with hl2

 

[Is This Tea]

No... If he has the latest drivers those can cause problems... most likely he needs older drivers.

 

[BeaverMon]

I had the SAME problem, and had to downgrade my drivers. My video card WAS a nVidia GeForce FX 5200.
I'm planning to get me a nVidia GeForce FX 5700LE.

 

[giant384]

ur better off with going with a 6600 or 6600gt since 5700le isnt really taht different except u can use high shader on hl2 and it ocs well

 

[BeaverMon]

I can't afford to get a really high-end card right now. A 5700LE is ALOT better then this piece of intergraded crap I have. :|

I'm going by what the computer guy who built my system suggested. He said it has to be a MSI-made 1, which is the same company that made my TV/FM Tuner Card.

(like I said, I HAD a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 card, that worked beautifilly with HL2, but had to take it out due to an incompatibility with Windows XP's Service Pack 2).

 

[giant384]

I can't afford to get a really high-end card right now. A 5700LE is ALOT better then this piece of intergraded crap I have. :|

I'm going by what the computer guy who built my system suggested. He said it has to be a MSI-made 1, which is the same company that made my TV/FM Tuner Card.

(like I said, I HAD a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 card, that worked beautifilly with HL2, but had to take it out due to an incompatibility with Windows XP's Service Pack 2).

hmm thats wierd mine worked fine with sp2 and what are u talking about intigrated crap fx5200 isnt intigrated