Half Life 2 problems

[leegroves86]

I just bought HL2 and about 15 minutes into the game it started to artifact, or to be more precise the SKY started to artifact. The very begining of the I walked around city 17 a bit and it sure didn't artifact (that was with the video settings that it set to be "optimal for my system"). But then 15 minutes later the sky and grounded stared artifacting too.

Why is this? I wonder if it didn't corrupt because it didn't start immediately. And a lot of people have said that HL2 runs BEAUTIFULLY on a 6600GT.


Running:

A8N-E
3000+ venice stable o'c to 2.3GHZ
Asus 6600GT
512 DDR 400
480 watt PSU

 

[johnnqq]

just a suggestion. to play most games, even half life 2, you should at least 1 gb.

i guess check your temps and see if the card is overheating...what brand did you buy? i've heard bad things about xfx

 

[Emultra]

Sounds like a classic case of overheating.

Check your temperatures. Remove the side panel of your chassi and see if it gets better. If it does: put it back with some case fan/s slapped in. If it doesn't check the heatsink/fan on the graphics card and see if it is seated right.

 

[baddog121390]

hl2 runs just fine on my system with only 512mb ram

 

[Crescent13]

I run half-life 2 on my 6600gt fine. try doing what I did.

Step 1: Open your case

Step 2: put a room cooling type fan outside of it.

my temps went down from 72c to 68c

 

[Emultra]

Do not follow that advice. It creates electrostatic and dust problems in your case. Install chassi fans instead.

You should know better than to give advice that has been thoroughly debunked, Crescent.

 

[Gstanfor]

Does your 6600 GT play other games without corruption?

How about rthdribl?

You need to take care with 6600's not to touch the heatsink unnecessarily with some models, because of how the heatsink is reatined with only two pins. It is quite possible to accidently tilt the heatsink enough that it will crack the GPU die.

Another thing to consider is drivers. What version are you running?