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Yesterday, I bought HL2: Episode One and played it for a few hours. I managed to get to the surface and finished playing. Today, I started up Episode One to continue, but the game locked up after about 15 minutes. The game just froze, I could not do anything - CTRL+ALT+DEL, CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, ALT+TAB, WIN+D - only reset worked.
I thought "shit happens" and restarted playing after the reset.
After about 15-20 minutes, the same thing happened.
Reset and start playing again. Same thing happened after a few minutes of gameplay.
Here's what I did trying to solve the problem:
* ran with hardware monitor in background, monitoring CPU temperature. It never exceeded 52'C, which is normal on my computer (sometimes the temp reaches 60'C and all is fine)
* verify game files
* chkdsk d: /f
* updated my video drivers (Catalyst 6.4 -> 6.5)
* ran a Prime stress test for 30 minutes
* deleted clientregistry.blob and reupdated Steam
* turned off the computer for 20 minutes and turned back on
* scanned for viruses with NOD32, latest virus database
I simply tried everything possible. What's odd is that I ran the game flawlessly yesterday night
Any tips? Here is my computer configuration:
* Athlon XP 2000+ Thoroughbred A0 (133x12.5)
* 1GB RAM Kingston PC3200 (@166MHz - it always has been that way; never had errors in memtest86 or tests like Prime that stress memory)
* Sapphire Radeon 9800PRO 128MB 256bit
* SoundBlaster Audigy 2
* Windows XP SP2, English version, up to date
I have the latest mainboard driver (VIA Hyperion), the latest video driver and the latest, non-beta driver from Creative.
If nothing helps, I will be forced to reinstall Windows, but that would be pretty painful
I thought "shit happens" and restarted playing after the reset.
After about 15-20 minutes, the same thing happened.
Reset and start playing again. Same thing happened after a few minutes of gameplay.
Here's what I did trying to solve the problem:
* ran with hardware monitor in background, monitoring CPU temperature. It never exceeded 52'C, which is normal on my computer (sometimes the temp reaches 60'C and all is fine)
* verify game files
* chkdsk d: /f
* updated my video drivers (Catalyst 6.4 -> 6.5)
* ran a Prime stress test for 30 minutes
* deleted clientregistry.blob and reupdated Steam
* turned off the computer for 20 minutes and turned back on
* scanned for viruses with NOD32, latest virus database
I simply tried everything possible. What's odd is that I ran the game flawlessly yesterday night
Any tips? Here is my computer configuration:
* Athlon XP 2000+ Thoroughbred A0 (133x12.5)
* 1GB RAM Kingston PC3200 (@166MHz - it always has been that way; never had errors in memtest86 or tests like Prime that stress memory)
* Sapphire Radeon 9800PRO 128MB 256bit
* SoundBlaster Audigy 2
* Windows XP SP2, English version, up to date
I have the latest mainboard driver (VIA Hyperion), the latest video driver and the latest, non-beta driver from Creative.
If nothing helps, I will be forced to reinstall Windows, but that would be pretty painful