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Old 02-22-2002, 02:12 PM   #1
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Half life

I have operating system windows XP home. Does anyone know if this game will work on my O/S. I hate to buy it and it dosn't work. Because I can't return the software program.
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Old 02-22-2002, 04:33 PM   #2
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Works fine for me on XP.
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Old 02-23-2002, 01:04 AM   #3
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I play Counter-Strike on XP all the time. It sometimes freezes up as I'm exitig the program, but I can play it fine. (CS is a modification of Half-life, in case you don't know)
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Old 02-23-2002, 01:06 AM   #4
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works fine for me too, win xp pro.
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Old 02-23-2002, 03:22 AM   #5
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Yep, Half-Life works fine.

@troysvihl

There's a workaround for Counter-Strike so that WinXP won't freeze when you exit it (it's a common problem). Instead of exiting it the normal way open the console and type in "exit". This way you exit counter strike and WinXP won't freeze.

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Old 02-23-2002, 10:36 AM   #6
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thanks RJ.
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Old 03-02-2002, 04:41 PM   #8
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WHy does HL for me does not run at full 80fps it runs at 30 and drops to 5 and goes up again!

It ran at 80fps the first timed i used it with my voodoo5 now its maxes out at 30 and drops after a few minutes this also happneds on CS and DoD!
any help is greatly appreciated!
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Old 03-06-2002, 11:54 AM   #9
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Does Anyone know when the new HL game is coming out?

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Old 03-06-2002, 01:27 PM   #10
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Garou - What OS are you running? I know that in WinXP CS apparently maxes out at 60 FPS. I don't use XP so I can't say I'm positive on this, but I've talked to quite a few people who all have this problem. You could also try a tweak utility. Check out http://www.tweak3d.net/ and see if they have any tweaks you can try.
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Old 03-06-2002, 02:33 PM   #11
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HL is working well for me (xp pro).
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Old 03-06-2002, 02:50 PM   #12
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Garou - What OS are you running? I know that in WinXP CS apparently maxes out at 60 FPS. I don't use XP so I can't say I'm positive on this, but I've talked to quite a few people who all have this problem. You could also try a tweak utility. Check out http://www.tweak3d.net/ and see if they have any tweaks you can try.
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Old 03-07-2002, 09:56 PM   #13
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FPS

What is 60 FPS
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Old 03-07-2002, 10:14 PM   #14
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i have xp and half life works fine along with all of its mods so i think u should go get it it is a great game and have fun
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Old 03-07-2002, 11:43 PM   #15
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Re: FPS

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What is 60 FPS
Frames Per Second
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Re: FPS

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What is 60 FPS
Number of frames shown on your monitor every second.
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