“Dell Wars”: Episode V – The Dellpire Strikes Back

After boxing up my old computer and sending it off to Dell, I began playing Half Life 2: Episode 1.

The third day I went to play it, It started crashing. It would crash every time I played after playing for 60 seconds.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I went in search of the answer hoping beyond hope that it was a simple driver update.

I did all of the windows updates, downloaded the latest DirectX drivers, and downloaded the Steam Crash Client. The steam crash client was very helpful in that it told me that I had a VERY SEVERE problem with my video card drivers, and gave me a link to download the new ones (I was using v.6.14.1… and the current ones as of 8/21/06 were 8.282). Let’s hope this isn’t an evil trap by Vadar to lure me in, and that this will actually work.

After installing all drivers and updating windows, the game seems to be working fine…

About the Author

Christopher McCulloh

E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

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