No problems with nVidia 8700M GT.

> Nope. I've even tested it with a vanilla build (no other software 
> installed but the OS and drivers, steam & tf2). Same result. I'd say it's 
> around 50/50 (the chance for it to hang on the MOTD). Sometimes you can 
> catch it by clicking continue before the page renders, but more often than 
> not, if it's going to hang, it's going to hang.
>
> Sometimes letting it sit there for 10 minutes or so will work and it will 
> finally render. Other times it will eventually just crash out and throw an 
> exception on hl2.exe. Sometimes it will render right away.
>
> It almost makes it look like a network issue, but I know it's not that.
>
> The only common link I have found thus far is that it all seems to be 
> mobile GPU's based on 8200, 8400 and 8600 nvidia chips (it could be 
> elsewhere, those are just the ones I've seen first hand).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yatin Vadhia
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:15 PM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> Cc: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> Subject: Re: [hlds] MOTD hang for Mobile GPUs
>
> Any other download managers?
>
> Regards
>
> Yatin
>
> On 10 Dec 2008, at 18:55, Karl Weckstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Nope, no IDM.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ] On Behalf Of Yatin Vadhia
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:35 PM
>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
>> Cc: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
>> Subject: Re: [hlds] MOTD hang for Mobile GPUs
>>
>> Do you have IDM installed?
>>
>> If so in options uncheck the box saying something or other about IE
>> based modules.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Yatin
>>
>> On 10 Dec 2008, at 18:20, Karl Weckstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone ever notice a problem with certain Mobile-based GPU's hanging
>>> on the MOTD screen if it's a custom html page? (The basic symptom is
>>> that you can't click Continue to get into the game).
>>>
>>> I have a  bunch of people who are on notebooks and they all have
>>> this problem. They're all nvidia GPU's based on 8200M's, 8400GS's or
>>> 8600GT's varying from 128MB to 256MB of video memory.
>>>
>>> My own notebook (a Dell m1330) exhibits this behavior regardless of
>>> what driver I use. I've used Dell's Vista64 driver as well as
>>> standard nvidia drivers using custom INF's from
>>> Laptopvideo2go.com... The problem remains no matter what I do.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a fix for this besides going with a straight text
>>> MOTD (which does indeed fix it, but looks butt ugly)?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> -Karl
>>> www.TrashedGamers.com<http://www.TrashedGamers.com>
>>>
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