Episode 1: Game won't run- any help please?

[MaD_ZeD]

Hi all- Asus A7A266-E
Radeon 9550SE 256MB
768MB RAM
Athlon 1700
Soundblaster Audigy A400

Got the game, installed fine, game launches to main menu, go to "start new game", loads all the way to last bar on loading & then... sound just begins to start, then sticks-game immeadiatley freezes, followed shortly by error message:

The Instruction at "0x24098391" referenced memory at "0x0000011c". The memory could not be "read".

Have updated video drivers, dropped video & audio settings right down, opened in window rather than fullscreen. Same all the time, except for JUST ONCE, when game seemed to actually start for a few secs, but had big red letters reading "ERROR" floating around the game screen!! Grrrrr...

Console at main menu reads:

maxplayers set to 1
Heap: 256.00 Mb
Parsed 15 text messages
Both ConVars must be marked FCVAR_REPLICATED for linkage to work (r_VehicleViewDampen)
execing config.cfg
1 CPU, Frequency: 1.5 Ghz, Features: AuthenticAMD MMX 3DNow RDTSC CMOV FCMOV
execing valve.rc
Spawn Server ep1_background01
Begin loading faces (loads materials)
End loading faces (loads materials)
execing skill_manifest.cfg
execing skill.cfg
execing skill_episodic.cfg
Precache called on a point_template that has no templates: template_BigDebris_impact_1
Section [Scenes]: 1592 resources total 25.47 KB, 1.21 % of limit (2.10 MB)
Game started
Initializing renderer...Warning: using WorldTwoTextureBlend on a non-displacement surface.
Support for this will go away soon.
- Material : maps/ep1_background01/concrete/blendconcreterock001a_-8608_6016_35
- Surface center : -8989 6072 -16
Warning: using WorldTwoTextureBlend on a non-displacement surface (material: maps/ep1_background01/concrete/blendconcreterock001a_-8608_6016_35). Support for this will go away soon.couldn't exec userconfig.cfg
Host_WriteConfiguration: Wrote cfg/config.cfg

Worth mentioning here that even though my system's not exactly high end, Half-LIfe 2 & HL2DM have always run just fine

I'm far from expert at console stuff, but any help would be great- really want to play this game. Thanks guys

 

[Dirk Pitt]

1) Verify
2) Delete and redownload
3) Go buy the game you wannabe hax0r

 

[MaD_ZeD]

Sorry, should have mentioned 1st time: have unistalled & re-installed, verified with Steam:frown: , de-fragged.
also, installed game via disc, not download.
Didn't understand the last line of your reply?

 

[stemot]

Sorry, should have mentioned 1st time: have unistalled & re-installed, verified with Steam:frown: , de-fragged.
also, installed game via disc, not download.
Didn't understand the last line of your reply?

He was implying you were running a pirate version, but if he had any sense he would know these are not pirate version symptoms.

Try deleting and downloading instead of installing from disc, dunno if it will help, but it might.

 

[MaD_ZeD]

No, not a pirate version

 

[MaD_ZeD]

Have tried downloading instead of disc- same result

 

[tdneVmo]

I have got the problem to! Then i installed omega drivers for my radeon 9600 pro turbo and now it loads the game, and its starts, but you never know when the error strikes again! Maybe in 4 seconds, maybe in 20 minutes. I found out that it has something to do with the action. It's when alot of things happens at the same time it crashes i think.

It might still be the drivers, but if anyone can give some support, then youre free to add me on MSN.. 1337 AT it DOT dk

thx

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

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[Acepilotf14]

I hate my computer.. cant run Lost Coast.. Im gonna get Episode 1 after i finish hl2, so i hope it wont kill itself. Hopefully.

 

[Apocalypse89]

Episode 1's specs are almost identical to HL2's as long as you keep HDR turned off. Same thing with Lost Coast(although there's no point playing that if your card doesn' t support HDR).

And didn't you skip Ravenholm because you were afraid of zombies? I'd hate to see what will happen when you play Lowlife or the hospital scene in Urban Flight. (although the latter is more of an andrenaline rush rather than a horror crawl)

 

[Acepilotf14]

Yes, but in episode 1, doesnt Alyx stick with you most of the time?

 

[bigburpco]

What difference does that make?

 

[madog]

What difference does that make?

Ya man, hate to say it but shes slow to kill. A noob one might furiously call her. If she was a little cuter it would make up for that though.

 

[bigburpco]

No, I might Alyx's presence doesn't make Ep1 more performance intensive than HL2.

Read the thread before commenting, kthxbai.