I figured since this was a technical question rather than "OMG!1111!!!!1!! how do u beeat this one thing???////????/?" i should ask it in this board
I'm getting the infamous "purple checkerboard" problem in half-life: source in random levels. For example, "interloper" looks okay, but the anomalous materials test chamber looks like a disco hall! I've messed around with all of the video settings with no success, so it looks i'll be getting the problems with "Route kanal" in HL2
The card is an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Steam yells at me about updating my drivers with every game that runs on Source, so i tried that. After getting the update, the game automatically tried three different settings and crashed each time, finally coughing up some error about direct x ver. 7 which makes me REALLY angry cause i've got the latest version of that, too!
Should i try the driver again? geez this sucks.
Perhaps you should tell us what that error actually said; it's probably the cause of your problems.