Half-Life 2 "fullscreen" vs. "windowed"

OK, i searched, musta either overlooked it, or asked the wrong question as i came up blank.

i have a medium large PC (2.6 celeron) and a smallish/medium card (radeon 9000) but i cannot get the game to run full screen. why?

some sort of an error message follows, i could attempt a screenshot if its important.

has anyone else had this issue?

Occasionally when i try to play CSS it will spit out an error saying video initialization failed or somesuch and then start me with the lowest resolution in windowed mode. It won't let me change it back unless I restart my computer. Once doing that though I can put it back and it will be fine. This is the only real bug I have encountered after about 40 hours combined play. I can get the game to run fullscreen on a GeForce2Go and 1.4 ghz processor, so it's not the quality of your card or computer that's the problem. It may be the drivers, but I don't know. I have a Radeon as well and I have never upgraded the drivers...

i am getting so frustrated, i just upgraded the drivers to omegas newest.. NOW it fails to initiate at all, stating it cannot do some shader nonsense

dammit, why is this game not complying with me :sad:

You may want to try out your card's most recent official drivers - worth a shot at least.

/me continues to growl

i have not even seen the load screen yet..

I have a radeon 9000 and downloading the latest driver worked for me.

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I think that might be your problem there..... Ive read at steam that if you dont have at least a 9600 the game wont run very well. Does it support DX7? If it does then there shouldnt be any problem.

the 9000 is an 8.1 card silly

i got it full screen finally, i used the ati drivers instead of the omega ones.. now i lost my sound :sad:

why is this happening to me? how much penance do i have to fulfill

Orpheus said:
the 9000 is an 8.1 card silly

i got it full screen finally, i used the ati drivers instead of the omega ones.. now i lost my sound :sad:

why is this happening to me? how much penance do i have to fulfill

Blame DirectX, I've had issues with sound from time to time as well.

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why is this happening to me? how much penance do i have to fulfill

how much time ya got??...and is this on a per capita basis?

seriously jon....the drivers did it on mine (radeon 9600 pro) just fine.....ati official .....

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

i fix the full screen, i fix the sound, i finally get to see gman saying "wake up mr. freeman" and... i step on my power strip shutoff switch.. screams

dammit to hell, what is going on today?

on a side note, have you noticed the out of focus image changes focal point if you lean in and lean out from the monitor??