half life custom games freezing

[felix 0]

Has anyone else had the problem where any half-life mod other than the original freezes solid their machine (need reboot) just before you can start shooting (ie as the console retracts).

 

Never happened before and my rig specs haven't changed since last time I re-installed.

 

Mods affected: TFC, OpFor, CS

 

Thanks in advance

 

My specs are (under NT4):

Pii 300mHz

160mb SDRAM pc100

i740 8mb

SB Live value

WD 6gb HD

Segate 1.7gb HD

Realtek 8029A 10mbit

Accton MPX2 10mbit

Lifeview FlyVideo '98

 

 

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[Marak 0]

I've had a similar problem. After installing a few mods, for some reason DirectX stopped initalizing and Half-Life would boot back to the desktop once it started loading the gam itself. Don't ask me why?! Even after uninstalling and re-installing Half-Life it would continue to do the same thing even without the mods! I'm not sure what the problem is, but I only solved it by re-installing Win2000. I'm almost wondering if there might be some broken code or leaks in the DX 7 implementation in Win2000. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

 

I'm running a K6-III 450 w/ 128 MB

Viper V770 Ultra (w/ latest nVidia drivers)

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