This is definitely -not- a heat issue in my machine. If it was it wouldn't happen at the exact same spot, every time. Plus I know my machine runs very cold.
Is anyone at home and able to try this? I didn't look here at first because he was getting no error message, but I don't believe SP1 gives the message.
http://halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=51721&page=1&pp=15
Seems he fixed his problem.. I just am not able to test it until I go home...
Hmmm if you are running SP1 this may be the memory read error as well. It doesn't give you an error, just crashes to desktop. I will try this when I get home.
Mine crashes at the exact same time, every time. I don't want to say when exactly because I don't want to spoil it for anyone but it's only about 15 minutes into the game.