Game crashs PLEASE HELP

[tlgraham]

Okay so i was playing along fine counterstrike and half life 2 were working great then all of a sudden the game freezes and rashes and i get an insuffcient memory error i had 256, so i say hey why not upgrade so i go out and buy a 512 card to add to my unit. after installing the memory i am pumped to play hl2 again. however now it just crashes once it gets to the loading screen sometimes it'll make a sound but no error screen and other times it will just take me back to the desktop. PLEASE help i've treid uninstalling and reinstalling already. i don;t know what else could be causing this.

 

[WhiteZero]

Do all your other games run fine?

 

[bryanf445]

did you try changing settings?

 

[tlgraham]

gordon freeman runs fine and i don;t have any other games installed on here at the moment i can't even get to the set up screen to change any settings

 

[furiousV]

setting heapsize to ½ ur ram might help
in game properties, in launch options, set it to something like
-heapsize 256000 might help, HL2 and CS: Source use 64MB of memory by default.
i installed hl2 when my system had a Radeon 9550, i fried it, and then installed a 9800Pro, and the recommended settings are still the same, but runs fine when i set higher. maybe hl2 doesnt detect hardware changes.

 

[tlgraham]

i can't get into game properties. it won;t even load to the main menu screen. i couldn't find a folder called game properties either. What the heck is goiong on!

 

[Ranga]

gop to steam, then right click on the game, then click "launch options". then enter in what he said.

(tell me if i'm wrong, plz)