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    Problem installing Half Life 2!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Imacyco, Jun 1, 2005.

  1. Imacyco

    Imacyco Notebook Geek

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    Anyone else having problems installing HL2? I get all the way to the installer part and then it tells me that I am in safe mode and that I should restart. I have tried everything that I can think of, if someone has solved this issue, please help.

    My lappy stats are:
    AMD 3200+
    512 MB RAM
    80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
    Win XP Pro (Fresh install with all the updates and divers done)

    And the game is the HL2 collectors edition DVD (it skipped the error screen on my desktop but I cannot install it because my desktop is really old).

    Thanks for your help.
     
    Imacyco, Jun 1, 2005
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  2. MoZirry

    MoZirry Notebook Consultant

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    this probably isnt the reason why, but make sure you are connected to the internet when running the game because it is necessary that you update the game to its latest settings from valve via steam befoer playin.g
     
    MoZirry, Jun 4, 2005
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  3. mtrivs

    mtrivs Notebook Evangelist

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    What kind of graphics card are you running in that model? It may be possible that it is not compatible with HL2. In that case i would say that there is no way that you will be able to run HL2 on that machine. I believe it has to do with bad driver or incompatible graphics card.

    ~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
    -AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
    -512MB RAM
    -128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
    -80GB 5400RPM HDD
    -15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
    -DVD±RW W/DL support
    -XP Pro
    -2X 12-Cell Batteries
     
    mtrivs, Jun 4, 2005
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