Half-life crashes

[ltk007]

I am having problems with Half-life in Win 2k. I can play for maybe 5 minutes, then the game freezes. Normally this happens during a sound and the sound will repeat itself. I can't close half-life and I have to restart the computer. The game doesn't even work in 98se, except for Team Fortress. Any ideas. Here is my system

Athlon 700@854
Abit Ka7
128mb Infineion Ram
Elsa Erazor X2 DDR
Sound Blaster Live! Value

 

[RSI]

Could be due to overclocking, could be your sound card or video card.

Try putting CPU to normal setting and test it.

-RSI

 

[nemouk]

Both my friend and i have a similar setup to you. (KA7, Geforce and Soundblaster card).

I have had lockups, sound related in halflife since i put the Soundblaster card in (live!). My friend also experiences lockups.

What this leades me to believe is that there is a compatability problem between these 2/3? compontents and Half-Life.

All i can suggest is going back to 98/ME, i really cant think of anything else to do or find a fix.

 

[MattStone]

I have a friend who is having this prob w/a non-overclocked GF2 and a Celeron (Can't remember the speed, somewhere around 500)...he gets the lockups in both Win2k and 98. He was having the same problem with Quake 2 in 98, but it worked like a charm in 2k...let me know if you find anything out, and I'll do the same.

PS...I just remembered, he can get it to run w/software 3d...looks like crap, so his prob has to be related to the vid board. I would think that it would be more of a software prob though...maybe some sort of driver confict or an irq conflict...oh well.

 

[ltk007]

Thanks guys, I will try with software for video. It freezes when my processor isn't overclocked too.

 

[Mem]

Just a quick note Half-life runs fine in Win98 OS1,I actually finished the game with no graphic problems.Btw was using TNT1 Creative labs card.