HL2 not working?

[Matt2]

I finally spent the 2 hours downloading HL2 off of Steam and the damn thing doesnt work!

When I double click the HL2 icon on my desktop the mouse goes away, but the desktop remains and the game doesn't initialize.

No error message. I can control-alt-delete and in the task manager it says HL2 -not repsonding. I can end the task and operation resumes as normal.

System in sig. 3DMark, BF2, Far Cry, P95 and memtest all stable.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Reinstall?

 

[Some1ne]

Just be glad that once it starts working you won't have to put up with the "A.I. Disabled" bug...it can really ruin a night of gaming to find that you have to go back to a save from 3 hours ago because the game's crazy anti-piracy logic decides to turn off the NPC A.I. at a point in the game where the next trigger is dependent on NPC actions...very frustrating...