Ok, I got Half Life 2: Episode 1 all preloaded and prepurchased. I got it all sorted the minute it was released. Loaded up the game, started loading the first level then BAM! It stopped loading. A little over halfway it just didnt budge! Task manager showed that hl2.exe was using 0% of the CPU usage and steam.exe was using 50% It was just stuck like this.
I changed from full screen to windowed mode, and that enabled me to load the actual first level. Started playing, now every so often, the same damn thing will happen. The game will just freeze, sound will stutter etc... and Steam (or hl2.exe) is using 50% while the other is using 0% of my CPU. It happens at random times, sometimes when I'm playing, and even when I'm trying to save sometimes. This is NOT funny I am NOT amused >=|
Has anyone had this problem before? How the HELL do I fix this because as you can probably guess.. I am quite pissed off at the moment
[EDIT] Oh, and just to add.. I tried validating my game cache, but that seemed to do nothing...
I changed from full screen to windowed mode, and that enabled me to load the actual first level. Started playing, now every so often, the same damn thing will happen. The game will just freeze, sound will stutter etc... and Steam (or hl2.exe) is using 50% while the other is using 0% of my CPU. It happens at random times, sometimes when I'm playing, and even when I'm trying to save sometimes. This is NOT funny I am NOT amused >=|
Has anyone had this problem before? How the HELL do I fix this because as you can probably guess.. I am quite pissed off at the moment
[EDIT] Oh, and just to add.. I tried validating my game cache, but that seemed to do nothing...