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Halflife Opposing force crashing

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First post, by cuco81

Posted on 2024-06-28, 19:16

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I've been playing Half Life vanilla with no issues on my Pentium 3 / Voodoo4 rig. All I had to do to get it working right was to install wickedgl and patch it to use the 3dfx mini driver. Today I installed Opposing force but it won't launch...game starts fine and I am able to choose the video config but once I start a new game it just crashes.

Specs:
Asus P2B-D/PIII 866mhz
Voodoo 4 pci
Yamaha YMF719 sound card
170GB SATA HDD connected to Promise SATA 300 tx4
Win2k
Directx9c

Thanks.

Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2024-06-28, 19:48

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Make sure you run a Half-Life patch afterward (which should patch opfor) incase you're installing the original Opposing Force on a 1.1.x.x Half-Life install as there had been a major regressive change in the middle of 2000 that'll break all the old versions of any expansions/mods prior.

Also a Voodoo4 shouldn't have to use the 3dfx mini driver intended for Voodoo1/2. Default should work fine

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Reply 2 of 3, by cuco81

Posted on 2024-06-29, 02:46

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leileilol wrote on 2024-06-28, 19:48:

Make sure you run a Half-Life patch afterward (which should patch opfor) incase you're installing the original Opposing Force on a 1.1.x.x Half-Life install as there had been a major regressive change in the middle of 2000 that'll break all the old versions of any expansions/mods prior.

Also a Voodoo4 shouldn't have to use the 3dfx mini driver intended for Voodoo1/2. Default should work fine

Thanks for the suggestio. Will patch it, set it to software, and report back.

Reply 3 of 3, by cuco81

Posted on 2024-07-01, 13:13

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That was it....updated HL to 1.1.1.0 and both games work on opengl (default) settings. My rig has dual boot (win98/win2k) setup. The games run fine on the w98 with the 3dfx reference drivers but not on win2k, probably cause I have the custom AmigaMerlin drivers installed there.

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