Half Life 2 not working!

[elbosco]

I try to load the game but it hangs on the loading screen before the vgui and after a while, crashes to my desktop. It's the same thing for HL:Source.

Does anyone else have this problem? It sucks waiting until 1am only to find out you play can't one of the most anticipated games of the year

 

[AmdEmAll]

same problem here...

 

[Nebor]

Same problem with me. I didn't have the patience to wait for a crash. But it won't let anything minimize it while it's on it's Loading screen, so you're stuck. I managed to get out by restarting the computer, hitting the start menu key, then up, then enter, then enter again. Aside from a hard reset, that's all you can do.

I think I waited 5 or 10 minutes just staring at the loading screen.

So that's awsome.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Mine loads for about 10 seconds then crashes.

 

[Nebor]

Alright guys, I got it figured out. Go to steam, right click it, and go to the monitor screen. There you'll observe that HL2 isn't finished downloading. It just told us that it was for some reason. So wait for it to finish!

 

[Luthien]

I dont have it yet guys but I have been playing a lot of games lately and my Norton firewall will sometimes crash/freeze a newly installed game the first time I run it. Exactly what your describing freezing my system and I have to reboot because you can't see behind the game that norton is asking you if you want to allow the game internet access through your firewall. The solution is to set your firewall to allow the game .exe to access the internet before running the game. I suspect that is the problem. I will have the game in a few hours myself so will know if I am right or not shortly.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Originally posted by: Luthien
I dont have it yet guys but I have been playing a lot of games lately and my Norton firewall often will crash the game the first time I run it after installing just like your describing freezing my system and I have to reboot. The solution is to set your firewall to allow the game .exe to access the internet. I suspect that is your problem. I will have the game in a few hours myself so will know if I am right or not shortly.

Believe me that isn't the problem we are having... This has more to do with missing files.

Also, Nebor mine says 93% downloaded. Status - Requires update. Is it updating? doesn't look like it's doing anything.

 

[Luthien]

I really hope that "missing files" isnt the problem since some game companies want to replace the disc if that is the case and you could end up waiting weeks for a new one especially since Best Buy and other stores will refuse to replace it. Going to be a lot of pissed off/on costomers.

 

[AmdEmAll]

I have it through steam so I don't have to worry about discs

 

[Luthien]

Could also be clonecd and alcohol 120% and clonedvd and other slysoft software that is causing the copy protection to have a fit. Try disabling or uninstalling those programs. Turn off "hide cdr media" in clone cd too.

 

[AmdEmAll]

huh?? I download it through steam, no cd's. It's has been pinned down on other forums to a faulty preload of the files. Mine is sitting at 94% not moving.

 

[Luthien]

Gamespot.com only gives half-life 2 92%!!! Hmmm, did pc gamer get paid off!!! Doome 3 and halo 2 scored higher!

 

[XBoxLPU]

Believe me that isn't the problem we are having... This has more to do with missing files.

Also, Nebor mine says 93% downloaded. Status - Requires update. Is it updating? doesn't look like it's doing anything.

Right click the taskbar icon and then "Monitor"

 

[AmdEmAll]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU

Believe me that isn't the problem we are having... This has more to do with missing files.

Also, Nebor mine says 93% downloaded. Status - Requires update. Is it updating? doesn't look like it's doing anything.

Right click the taskbar icon and then "Monitor"

OMG IM AN IDIOT. Didn't even know about that.

D/L at 250-400 kb/s

 

[XBoxLPU]

I am confused as to why DOD:S is still saying "Coming soon " :/

 

[AmdEmAll]

Well it finished. It still crashes to desktop. Time to delete hl2 and redownload it :|

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Luthien
Gamespot.com only gives half-life 2 92%!!! Hmmm, did pc gamer get paid off!!! Doome 3 and halo 2 scored higher!

Read ign's reviews if you want some acurate stuff. Half life 2 is greater then doom 3, but less then halo 2. and now i wont say i told ya so

 

[Flashram]

I've installed/redownloaded twice, both times I crash. And yes I was at 100% both times.

 

[EngenZerO]

mine is working like a charm... granted that i also let it download all and de-crypt the files... i waited till my monitor status said play before i actually loaded the game...

 

[GTaudiophile]

I had Steam running all night thinking the "unlock" files would download at 3:00 AM EST. But I ended up having to exit and re-open Steam and the files downloaded. I also had the game crash already when I was adjusting the video options, but that might have more to do with my outdated video driver.

 

[Oakenfold]

Kept crashing on me when trying to load the game, nvdia's 66.93 got it up and running though.
First experiences going on right now.


OMG no! 15 minutes into it and i'm locking up now.
Was getting very very good too!

Instruction @ 0x241f8977 ref memory @ 0x00f0f5c0. Mem could not be read.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Kept crashing on me when trying to load the game, nvdia's 66.93 got it up and running though.
First experiences going on right now.


OMG no! 15 minutes into it and i'm locking up now.
Was getting very very good too!

Instruction @ 0x241f8977 ref memory @ 0x00f0f5c0. Mem could not be read.

That could be a RAM problem. Are you overclocking, by any chance?

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Kept crashing on me when trying to load the game, nvdia's 66.93 got it up and running though.
First experiences going on right now.


OMG no! 15 minutes into it and i'm locking up now.
Was getting very very good too!

Instruction @ 0x241f8977 ref memory @ 0x00f0f5c0. Mem could not be read.

That could be a RAM problem. Are you overclocking, by any chance?

Yeah, I'm looking into it right now heh. Overclocking nope, running stock. Gonna run some memtest right quick and see if anything comes up.

 

[imported_sucker]

first . . post . . evar!

hi yall, gotta question. bought collectors edition, last night, , but cant get it to install. it's giving me an error telling me that it cant copy hl23.cab. so i copied the entire dvd to my hd. same frikin error. i have changed out ide cables, tested memory, done everything i can think of. any ideas?

tia

 

[wnied]

When I left for work this morning, I was at 83%, I am going home to check it out for lunch...

...will report of progress (or lack thereof) when I arrive.
~wnied~