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I just thought I should share some information I gathered about how I successfully removed all video and audio stuttering from Half-life 2 where all other attempts had failed. After installing the latest ATI catalyst drivers (4.11 11/10/04)

I set my display card as follows in the "Graphic settings/3D" section

Standard settings - Use custom settings

Anti-Aliasing - Let the application decide

Anisotropic filtering - Let the application decide

Catalyst A.I - High

Mipmap detail level - High Performance

TRUEFORM - Quality

Smartshader - None

And here is the setting that stopped the sound stutter. Everything I did in the game, including lower quality settings, lower resolution had no effect either. None of the helpful hints about changing the HL 2 config file, or lowering the hardware acceleration in windows worked either.

In the API Specific - Direct3D settings - Tick the "Support DXT texture formats", and leave the other settings in the API Specific window un-ticked.

PC setup

P4C800-E Deluxe

3.2Ghz P4

1GB Duel channel

280GB SATA HD

ASUS ATI RADEON 9800XT

Creative Audigy 2 soundcard

I hope this helps at least some of you get the game running as it should. I can now run the game will all the settings in the game at MAX, without any problems :)
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