Half life 2 major problem

[Xarg]

For some reason Half life 2... scratch that any game that uses the source engine just wont start up anymore. It makes no sense to me because a month ago they worked perfectly on my rig. The half life 2 menu wont even load and CS:S and HL2 DM wont load any levels at all.

My rig is as follows

Dual core E6300 1.8 ghz
Geforce 7300 LE
and 1 GB of RAM.

I know that is more than enough to run the game. Anyone have any possible explanations?

 

[Rapstah]

Source has a problem loading maps for you - the reason HL2 doesn't load at all is because it uses maps as backgrounds as opposed to just using a image like HLDM and CSS.

 

[Xarg]

Hmm.. I see. Good point. Is there any way to fix it? Ive reinstalled multiple times even to different folders.

 

[Rapstah]

How much hard drive space do you have left? Also try running in -nosound and -windowed.

 

[Xarg]

I have 180 gb left. Ill try that. The weird thing is that it worked fine a month ago. I got a message when i reported an error to microsoft and the error thing said it was something called a stop error. I did what they said i should but it didnt seem to help.

 

[darkrage369]

Smae problem

I start up Half-Life 2 or any source engine game it says Preparing to Launch Half-Life 2 then the screen goes away the the time glass thing next to the mouse go up then disapears and Half-Life 2 never starts or CS:S Or HL2DM Please Help my System Can most positivley handle it when it was working like 6 moths ago Runs Fine all of it works and i tried to delete and reinstall files. HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED THANK YOU! BTW I have a 233 GB hard drive Thanks.

 

[Dekstar]

Try editing the command line (Steam > Right click the game > Properties > Set Launch Options) to have -dxlevel 90 in. Your thing should look like "blah blah blah\hl2.exe -dxlevel 90"
like that. Then load the game, and make sure it works, then quit and remove that tag. Only reason I say remove is because it wipes your graphics configurations if you don't.

 

[darkrage369]

Awsome

Thanks ill try it
h appreaciated

 

[Xendance]

For some reason Half life 2... scratch that any game that uses the source engine just wont start up anymore.

This makes sense :x

 

[Xarg]

Okay Ill rephrase. Every time I try to load a map thats using the source engine. It'll either fail to load with no error message, forcing me to alt f4 or the games wont even start up. Half life 2 wont load the menu at all because it uses a map. Does it make more sense?

 

[darkrage369]

Omg

OK it didn't work
after several tries
I am i need for a better soultion

 

[darkrage369]

Need Help!

OK AS I SAID I start up Half-Life 2 or any source engine game it says Preparing to Launch Half-Life 2 then the screen goes away the the time glass thing next to the mouse go up then disapears and Half-Life 2 never starts or CS:S Or HL2DM Please Help my System Can most positivley handle it when it was working like 6 moths ago Runs Fine all of it works and i tried to delete and reinstall files. HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED THANK YOU! BTW I have a 233 GB hard drive Thanks.:E

 

[Xarg]

Bump.. Im running out of options. Ive tried pretty much everything i know of with no avail.

 

[Xarg]

Alright so I finally got some sort of Error Message. It says



Engine Error

failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer


Sounds like a graphics problem :\

 

[Rapstah]

Try running the game in -dxlevel 80, or if you already are running the game in DX 8, run it in -dxlevel 90.

 

[Xarg]

Alright but a weird thing that happened was that CS:S worked for a while (Max settings and everything) until i turned it off to see if FEAR was working again because i thought my new drivers might have fixed it... however it was short lived. once i started up HL2 it wouldnt load the menu.. as usual.