alienuser09
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The game starts up and goes as far as the main menu screen just fine. But when I attempt to start a new game, the "loading" screen comes up with the progression bar, gets a little over half way complete, then crashes with the following error: internal device driver error idirect3ddevice9:: present().
I have the latest video drivers available as well as DX9.0c. After trying the Direct X web setup utility, a few of my DX files were updated and on the next Half Life 2 Ep1 attempt, I was able to see the opening sequence of a new game before it crashed with the same error. Ever since that one time, it crashes at the same point of the loading screen again.
Granted, my computer is an old one by todays standards, but it plays Half Life 2 just fine with graphics pretty much maxed out so I figured it should be able to play episodes 1 and 2 ok as well.
My computer:
Alienware Area 51
Pentium 4 3.2GHz with 1 Gig Ram
Windows XP SP3
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Catalyst 10.2 Drivers
Direct X 9.0c
I have the latest video drivers available as well as DX9.0c. After trying the Direct X web setup utility, a few of my DX files were updated and on the next Half Life 2 Ep1 attempt, I was able to see the opening sequence of a new game before it crashed with the same error. Ever since that one time, it crashes at the same point of the loading screen again.
Granted, my computer is an old one by todays standards, but it plays Half Life 2 just fine with graphics pretty much maxed out so I figured it should be able to play episodes 1 and 2 ok as well.
My computer:
Alienware Area 51
Pentium 4 3.2GHz with 1 Gig Ram
Windows XP SP3
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Catalyst 10.2 Drivers
Direct X 9.0c