we don't go to ravenholm...

Half-Life 2 works. I'd forgotten that after the 5 CD install you have to connect to the internet and do a file decryption, thus insuring HL2 is the longest install of any game. I found out that HL2 actually does widescreen, so I can use my full display when I play. HL2 ran pretty smoothly, but the loading times were even worse because my hard drive is slower. On the upside, I don't have psychedelic texture glitches anymore. I had left off about 2/3 of the way through Water Hazard and I went right up to the beginning of Zombietown. Because Ravenholm is not a place I should be at four in the morning. (Is it that late already?) My audio is also a little glitchy at points, but that's what I get for going from an Audigy to an onboard sound card. But Freeman can run HL2, and I'm fairly impressed.