Problems with Half-Life freezing on startup

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5 total messages Started by dave_matsumoto Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00

#66

Author: dave_matsumoto
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00

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Hi,

I just bought Half-Life a couple of days ago, and am having problems with it
freezing.  Originally, it would only freeze occasionally when I tried to
create and new LAN multiplayer game.  However, after a while it began to
freeze more often.  I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, but had the
same problem. Unfortunately, now the problem has become worse--the computer
freezes as soon as I try to start the game from the start menu!  Has anyone
had this problem?

System info:
Tyan Tsunami 440BX motherboard
PentiumII-400
256MB RAM (2-128MB PC100 DIMMs)
Monster3D2 8MB video
STB Velocity 128 AGP 4MB video
AWE64 Value, hardware acceleration off
Win98

If anyone has some suggestions, please post a reply.

Thanks in advance!
Dave

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Re: Problems with Half-Life freezing on startup

#67

Author: R�diger Geist
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00

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Hi!

I've had the same problem: Half Life tried to open a connection to the
Internet with the modem turned off. Try Alt-Tab, then Alt-F4 to kill that
task. ( Don't know if this works with non-europe Windows )

Balou

Re: Problems with Half-Life freezing on startup

#68

Author: Michael
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00

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If u create a shortcut on the desktop, click on Properties and in the Target
enter "-noip" without the quotes. The target should read
"C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\hl.exe -noip". If u want to enable the drop down Console
as in Quake etc, then also add the line " -dev -toconsole". When the game
starts just hit the F7 key to bring up the last saved game

"R�diger Geist" wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've had the same problem: Half Life tried to open a connection to the
> Internet with the modem turned off. Try Alt-Tab, then Alt-F4 to kill that
> task. ( Don't know if this works with non-europe Windows )
>
> Balou

Re: Problems with Half-Life freezing on startup

#65

Author: SITH
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:00

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I fixed it by changing control panel/internet/ connection to through lan or
network

R�diger Geist wrote in message <74hh7m$iou$1@news.online.de>...
>Hi!
>
>I've had the same problem: Half Life tried to open a connection to the
>Internet with the modem turned off. Try Alt-Tab, then Alt-F4 to kill that
>task. ( Don't know if this works with non-europe Windows )
>
>Balou
>
>
>

Re: Problems with Half-Life freezing on startup

#64

Author: Dean Quinto
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00

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I had the same problem go download the latest glide drivers for your card.
It work after I got 2.46
E.Boeijen wrote in message <755s77$mr5$1@reader1.wxs.nl>...
>
>dave_matsumoto@my-dejanews.com heeft geschreven in bericht
><74hc5e$4i5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just bought Half-Life a couple of days ago, and am having problems with
>it
>>freezing.  Originally, it would only freeze occasionally when I tried to
>
>I have the same problem and i don't know what to do..please if anyone has
>suggestions..please write me back
>
>

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