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      Oct 14th, 04, 1:57 AM
usually when i try to play half-life, a birght red light appears and all the text vanishes... i have updated my drivers and stuff but nothing happens..
is there anyway i can fix it? its getting really annoying

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      Oct 14th, 04, 12:27 PM
Were you ever able to play Half Life with that card under Windows XP?
 
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      Oct 15th, 04, 12:54 AM
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Were you ever able to play Half Life with that card under Windows XP?
yeah... only problem is the text disappearing
 
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      Oct 15th, 04, 1:33 AM
You might want to make sure you have the newest version of DirectX.
 
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      Oct 15th, 04, 5:05 AM
9.0c is what i have
 
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      Oct 15th, 04, 4:53 PM
Hmmm...well then the only thing I can suggest then is making sure you have all patches for the game, and maybe poking around in the official game forum and see if anyone there has had this problem.
 
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      Oct 16th, 04, 1:26 AM
well, im a member on a HL cheating forum (lets not get into that)
seems another person has the same problem, but with another video card...

ill look into the official forum
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      Nov 16th, 04, 4:37 AM
well, looks like when my brother comes home from college for thanksgiving, i'll ask him if i can have his nVidia card in his old computer at home (he has an laptop he uses for college)

or maybe adopt the whole thing myself
 
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