crashes on the loading screen. Help!!!

[titaniummonkey]

I bought half life 2 silver today from steam. I have installed all the updates and the game loads fine but after the valve logo at the beggining it goes onto a loading screen (buildings in the back ground) but never loads. I've been on steam support and they told me to update directx but i have done this and it still doesn't work. Please help me. I really want to play on this game.

 

[madcat75]

Buy a better computer

 

[titaniummonkey]

my computer is the same as my friends. On his half life 2 works fine. 3ghz,512mb ram, 128mb graphics card.

 

[alameda]

Yeah I somewhat am getting the same thing, I get to the 3rd Chapter and have no problems until I go down into the sewers after the Helo is shooting at me and i get to a loading point (possibly to the end of the chapter) and it crashes and sends me back to the opening screen of where it says new game, load game, options and so on... So I try to load game and it crashes.
1.8 ghz pentium 4
Raideon 9800 SE/fully updated
DDR 1G RAM
I was thinking that it might be the processor, but isn't that the minimum requirement to run the game and plus If I ran the first 2 and most of the 3rd chapter without any problems?Maby i should stop spending all my money on beer.... :cheers:

 

[^Ben]

Format?

Could you have a bad case of spyware or virsues?

 

[countuebles]

fireflaie's solution that worked for me when I had the same problem (all hail the mighty fireflaie! ;-) )

Part 1 :
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Go in the directory :
E:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\STEAM_ACCOUNT_NAME\half-life 2
there is a directory named "bin" that contains many .dll etc

Part 2 :
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Enter the "bin" directory and copy all the files (ctrl+A, ctrl+C)

go back at E:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\STEAM_ACCOUNT_NAME\half-life 2
then paste the files here (Ctrl+V)

Part 3 :
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Select all the files and directorys (EXCEPT THE "BIN" DIRECTORY) in

E:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\STEAM_ACCOUNT_NAME\half-life 2

Copy it !!!

Part 4 :
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No Go back in the "bin" directory then Paste the files and dir you've just copy
if windows tell you that there is files that have the same name so just overwrite it, as you want that's not seams to be a problem if you don't

Part 5 :
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Quit Steam
=> Reload Steam, right click : Games, right click on Half-Life 2 and Launch the game
Enjoy if that works , sorry if that don't