The gunship is so easy, and I didn't even need to crowbar it. I went to do it and the door started beeping, so I got my rocket launcher out and blasted them! :/

I'll try finihsing Half life my self this week... ive only got that big monster to tackle.... *gulp*
then i'll go onto HL2 (if i can figure out how to make it run decently ¬¬)

NIHILANTH! I've never properly fought that thing, I think he's a tough one!

As for HL2, set everything to minimum. I did get it to work on a fairly minimum spec PC quite well, when it was first released. I think the main issue is the graphics on your laptop, though.

The Nihilanth is sooooo messed up its untrue tbh....Fire rockets and stuff...Looks like a mega messed up giant baby of sorts...hes serisously freaky! Might try to do the same thing this week, complete the original again :p Cant wait to get to kill my first Gargantua Already seen him, jst need to electrocute him now

Kill your first garg? I thought you'd already played through, and therefore killed them...

Note the shackles on his arms...he is a prisoner too. Not many people notice those.




I am pleased to say that with quite a bit of effort, I got through him on hard.

The laptop should run it ok, as it can run css reasonably on low. HL2 is less demanding as it is an older version of Source. So there should be no worries there.

It's actually the same version of source, but they kept updating the CSS engine, with stuff like HDR.

Errrrm....Quick question...

D:\Sierra\Half-Life\hl.exe -console -w

Should make it run in a window right? But it doesnt Anyone have any ideas on what ive done wrong?

Those are the right commands for the Steam version advanced properties, I don't know about the non-steam version. Won't harm it by trying, though.

Try putting the D:\Sierra\Half-Life\hl.exe in quotation marks, it should help

Try putting -sw instead of -w. -w is for forcing it to run at a certain resolution, eg:

-w 800.

Oh yeah, -w is width, isn't it? I thought it was windowed, cos there are so many of those commands...

Im goign to try and complete half-life over the weekend... then i can actually start Half-life 2, coz atm im still trying to get it to run decently on my lappy without it jumping and freezing...

Also knowing me, once I have finished Half-life, I will play again without anyhelp then I will know how good (bad) I really am

Have fun completing it!

As for HL2, just set everything to the minimum available in the "advanced" panel and set resolution to around 800x600 or 1024x768.

To risk being flamed for bumping, hows your venture into HL games now lol.

ZOMG HE'S BUMPING THE TOPIC!!! FLAME! BAN!

Only joking.

Demonata complete HL1 and played a bit of HL2, but the low framerate made it annoying, I think.

there is a reason for this bump :O.

basically, throughout next week from roughly wednesday onwards I'm going to try and complete hl2-hl2e2 in around 3 days . should be an epic gaming sitting!

my exam is on friday (1.5 hours) and then i have the week after off, I'm back home on Friday til Tuesday to get my css fix but when i return to uni i figured i could have a go at doing the hl2 series onwards (if only black mesa was out, then that would be the whole series in one!)

but, erm, i've just been playing hl2 just to get back into the swing of it and when i put in full resolution in widescreen (1650x1050 iirc), i cant see the ammo information for the gun, so i've had to put it back in another resolution which looks nowhere near as nice in comparison . i'm yet to try any other resolutions, but anybody have any ideas? ^^

i'm yet to try out hl2e1 or hl2e2 for that matter, i don't mind playing in a lower resolution - it still looks real nice (all the detail still on highest etc.) but i still prefer it in the biggest resolution ^^

Change the resolution then close and open the game. There's a bug with changing resolution that some things don't resize proprely.

hmm, ok, but the resolution always goes back to the original resolution when i launch the game again.

I completed HL2 and Ep1 got a bit into Ep2 but then it <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING> up and the game wouldnt progress properly.. Was very ghey..

It shouldn't do. You don't have width and height in your advanced launch settings, do you?

played it once at chickens and didnt like it:P

HL2 is ok.. But tbh its just a standard single player shooter and well.. Single players games get kinda boring so it took me like months just to get through HL2 and episode 1..

it took me 3 years to complete HL2. Took me a day with ep2