First Post, Help! Jumping!

[mark_a_thorpe]

Or chunking or whatever its called. Anyhoo, newly installed winXP, vaio laptop with stupid intel 900 onboard graphics, 512ddr, tonnes of HD space and a recent defrag...

Whenever i look towards where the sun *would* be in HL2 the game jumps like hell! And continues to do so until i look away...

I've just installed it, so i assume it has all the recent updates etc,,,

Help anyone?

[Samon]

Moved.

[Dekstar]

Check in video settings to make sure you haven't got Bloom or HDR on, as these can really kill performance, especially on a laptop with an onboard graphics card.

[giant384]

Check in video settings to make sure you haven't got Bloom or HDR on, as these can really kill performance, especially on a laptop with an onboard graphics card.

why would that matter???? it wouldnt render any of that. also i played hl2 before and for some reason it set shaders on high but when i tried to change the settings the game crashed. soooo the only way you can play it to get a graphics card.

[Shasta]

Onboard graphics = waste of time for HL2. If, somehow you have it working ok except when you look at the sun - then don't look at the sun. You are trying to run a performance game that is quite resource intensive on a crap laptop system. You are probably lucky it goes at all. Turn all settings to low if you haven't already.