First post, by Maksiii
Hi, recently I built my WinXP machine and installed some classic games.
Hlaf-Life runs perfectly under software or GL, Half-Life 2 & Ep1 work fine but Episode 2 and Portal both crash saying that it requires Pixel Shader 1.1 to run. I can't get past the "loading" at start before that happens.
HL2 and Ep1 also report a software Dx level of 9.0 and hardware Dx level of 7.0 and I cannot change that no matter what command lines or compatibility mode I use.
DxDiag says I have Dx9.0c installed, Call of Duty plays fine and FarCry also shows no issues on Direct3D9.
NVidia is also updated to the last available version provided by them, and before this I even had a more "recent" version (94.xx) but still nothing changed
GPU: GeForce4 MX440 - CPU: Pentium 4 @2.40GHz - RAM: 768Mb
I checked and these are acceptable requirements to run these games.
Another thing, I accidentally broke a capacitor/accumulator on my GPU (at the tip, near the end), could that have anything to do with this issue?
Anyone have ideas on how I can get these games up and running? Thanks