Ok, after drooling over my new PC setup (I'm sure most of you are tired of listing the details, but I'm going to list them here, only because it may help):
P4 3.6Ghz
Nvidia 256MB GeForce 7800GTX
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
320GB Raid0 HD
2GB 677 DDR2 RAM
So anyway, first "issue" I noticed is after installing Steam, when I try to play Half Life 2, the intro movie with the Valve Logo doesn't play (well, I hear the sound in the background, but nothing on screen) and the screen "looks" frozen (but its not, HL2 loads once the "movie" has finished). I know the movie is there, I used WMV to play it. Its a minor thing, but it couldn be indicative of another problem. I didn't have this problem with Steam on my older computer.
And another problem, a bit more serious is when I tried to install FEAR. I placed the DVD and then of course, Autoplay ran, but all that appeared was a "white window" in place of where the launch screen would be, although I was hearing the audio. But the Autorun was pretty much frozen and I couldn't install FEAR that way. Again, I don't get this problem on my older Dell computer.
So, I'm open to suggestions. I did a few things, such as defragmenting my drives, and I was pretty sure I downloaded the latest drivers, though there may be some I missed. I'm pretty sure I got all the important things like the drivers for my graphics card and DirectX. Its very strange, that it happens on my nice new computer and works fine on my old ATI GPU computer.
P4 3.6Ghz
Nvidia 256MB GeForce 7800GTX
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
320GB Raid0 HD
2GB 677 DDR2 RAM
So anyway, first "issue" I noticed is after installing Steam, when I try to play Half Life 2, the intro movie with the Valve Logo doesn't play (well, I hear the sound in the background, but nothing on screen) and the screen "looks" frozen (but its not, HL2 loads once the "movie" has finished). I know the movie is there, I used WMV to play it. Its a minor thing, but it couldn be indicative of another problem. I didn't have this problem with Steam on my older computer.
And another problem, a bit more serious is when I tried to install FEAR. I placed the DVD and then of course, Autoplay ran, but all that appeared was a "white window" in place of where the launch screen would be, although I was hearing the audio. But the Autorun was pretty much frozen and I couldn't install FEAR that way. Again, I don't get this problem on my older Dell computer.
So, I'm open to suggestions. I did a few things, such as defragmenting my drives, and I was pretty sure I downloaded the latest drivers, though there may be some I missed. I'm pretty sure I got all the important things like the drivers for my graphics card and DirectX. Its very strange, that it happens on my nice new computer and works fine on my old ATI GPU computer.