Playing HL2 on UL80VT

Hi All...New to the forums here but I hope that's alright. I've done a bit of searching on the UL80vt and can't find anyone with a similar problem so I hope that I'm just overlooking the threads.

I've got a UL80VT that i've been playing a few games on. It is a hybrid w/ the G210M chipset and a 1.66ghz Core2Duo. I am able to play most lower-end games without any problems. But i'm finding that my HL2 is freezing on me as well as L4D. I believe they both use the Steam Engine and everything but this is a weird problem that i'm noticing.

Whenever there are a lot of graphic intense sections of the game I am getting a computer speaker "beep", not from the "speakers" but from the actual computer. If i press w and d at the same time it "beeps", if i press s and a it "beeps", anytime i have two movement buttons pressed down it "beeps" the system speaker. This ONLY happens when there are intense visuals on the screen and I'm able to press these combinations all the time otherwise. I am not sure what is bottlenecking here, is it the CPU, is it the GPU, does anyone know? Should I lower my video settings a bit?

Thanks for reading and hopefully you've got some suggestions for me to try out! =)

 

I believe there is a thread about half life on steam and it a work around for the game as it was not made to work on high end gpu's has todo with changing it for running in x64 bit and changing in the game to run in x32 bit. It's been awhile since I played in and tat was on vista sorry best I can do from work. I will troll in morning t see if I can find it.

I checked multi sites and some say check bios for typematic setting as this can cause the problem also monitor temp when playing game as a temp system beep may alos be happening next best thing to do is contact steam support.

 

if you want to know which one is bottlenecked, you could use monitoring software with logging enabled.... you could also lower settings to the most basic just to see if the problems go away when you play, let's say 800x600 and all options off.
If it works on low settings, you have a performance problem (though HL2 is normally very playable, you don't need a beast to play it) if it happens even at the lowest settings, then you'll have to start looking at other options...