Are there ANY other ideas? I've tried a ton. The error report suggested that the problem was with a certain dll, so I googled it and tried multiple solutions for how to fix it, none of which worked. Any ideas?
K I reinstalled steam and now it doesn't even do the "hl2.exe has stopped working" it just say's "preparing to launch portal" then the window closes and nothing happens. Using process explorer I can see hl2.exe start up as a sub process of steam, but then it closes.
Can anyone help? Do you need more information? Can you give more general tips? I already installed and reinstalled every game. I did not try re installing steam yet I guess. What other things could work?
Ok, sorry, I was hurried trying to get the first post in trying to get to the beach. I've tried to run a bunch of source mods. Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Day of Defeat. None of them worked. I've reinstalled them too, by deleting local content on ALL my half life stuff and re downloading from...
Everytime I try to run a half life source mod I get this:
hl2.exe has stopped working:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: hl2.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4bd4c4d8
Fault Module Name: shaderapidx9.dll
Fault Module...
I finally figured it out, for some reason my version of visual C++ wasn't copying the client.dll and server.dll into the MyMod\bin directory. I found these files in the source folder, and copied them manually to get them to work.
I've pretty much followed this tutorial here:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Compiling_under_VS2005
Except I don't have half life I only have Team Fortress 2, so when I created the source code I couldn't choose "modify half life single player" this option was grayed out. I had to...