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Have you tried this forum?

Try asking in this forum http://www.halflife2.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12

To work steam needs to add files to the folder C:\Program Files\Steam. If you are logged in as a user (someone that is not administrator) you may not be allowed to add files there. Windows controls who can add files to the folder. If you can, log in as Administrator and try it. If you cannot...

Do you have rights to create folders and add files? Are you logged in as Administrator or a user? If as a user have the admin grant you rights to the folder you are using C:\Program Files\Steam or C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam

It happens to me every now and then. I don't think it is always spyware. My system is clean. It seems to be related to not getting to the net when it starts. For instance a different program starts an update at boot. That prevents steam from doing its thing. So it does start but never completes...

Note if you are into playing games do not waste your time on Vista. XP is a much more dependable system for games. That is not just my opinion but also a ms evangelist.

Open Steam Select My Games Tab Highlight HL2 Right click and select properties Click Set Launch Options button In the Box enter -dxlevel 80 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 Click OK

Lol glad you are working. You bought a 64 bit system because thats all they make? You bought a 64 bit OS because you have a 64 bit system. HL did work fine in 64 bit. I think it was the first or second game to support it (Far cry did also). But it is hard keeping everything working when...

Try loading a slightly earlier save and see if that works.

What I did to fix it was to force the game to 32 bit mode. Open Steam Select My Games Tab Highlight HL2 Right click and select properties Click Set Launch Options button In the Box enter -32bit Click OK See if that fixes your problem.

If you haven't used steam in a while it might be downloading all the updates. I just reinstalled on a different computer with a new key (old one was stolen) steam remembered me and all my games. It took a while to dl them but what the heck. :bounce:

Same thing happened to me. Game played fine all the way through. then after trying portal it hung loading. After pulling my hair out this is what I found. Started game in windowed mode. Started in windowed+ console mode. This let me see the error "Invalid version for Serverbrowser.dll"...