This is more than likely a driver conflict somewhere. I would start with
video driver. when you reformat XP is going to install one for you and if
you do automatic updates, it will put the latest known driver on your comp
for you. After reformatting you can update to a new one yourself. Just don't
go with the latest video driver. Start with one of the old ones.
Then go on to sound card driver if it is not the video card driver. I would
start all this from a fresh format and don't let xp update anything for you
until you try to run the games.
"Chopstick Head" <burn RemoveThis @inheck.net> wrote in message
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>I played this game all the way through (and Half-Life 1 Source, for good
>measure) a few months back. No problems, whatsoever.
> I did a clean install of Windows XP not too long ago, and a few days ago I
> decided to play this game again.
> But now I am running into this very annoying problem. The game constantly
> freezes and the sound loops (kind of like when an agent takes over a
> person in The Matrix movies, you know that sound?). I am forced to reboot
> by turning off the power.
> Not sure what the hell's up. I have all the updated drivers and
> everything. F.E.A.R. does exactly the same thing, too, and even
> Civilization IV does it if I don't turn down soundcard acceleration to
> "Basic", but unfortunately this doesn't work for Half-Life 2 or F.E.A.R.
> They do it no matter what and I've had it up to here, gosh darn it.
> >> Stay informed about: Game freezes and sound studders... 
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