i have a dell desk top pc.
it has windows xp, an intell(R) 82865G Graphics controller, a pentium 4 processor with 2.80 GHZ., i "fixed" the game buy trashing the disk and just re-installing the game with a friends....uhm..... "shady" disk that was modded to be stand alone and the game ran fine, loaded in less that 30 sec. i put it on my desktop instead of my laptop because i installed windows 7 beta and it made my laptop suck monkey ball. "don't get windows 7, it lags and doesn't like to communicate well with newly installed Hardware." Windows XP RULES
ant ways windows 7 raped half life 2 and caused it to lagg really bad to the point that if you shrank the game screen and opened up task manager it would tell you that half life 2 had stopped responding. "when i say shrink the game screen i mean putting on 640x780 resolution in a window." windows 7 didn't want to run the game well for some reason. idk why?
now mind you i tried installing my disk of HL2 on my desk top and it was bad but not as bad as on my laptop. the loading time went down from 5 min to about 1min 30 sec which was all right but not great.