half life 2 will never work on your machine.

[moggy]

It probably means that in his mind writing thoughts in a journal and playing an acoustic guitar means having a life. He is telling the guy to stop worrying about these things and to get a life. get it?

u dont get it .

he is basically saying (no offence to the guy who cannt work his game) ..he is basically saying all this guy needs now is a journal and guitar to write down his angers and sing songs of woe about the trouble hes having and moaning about valve. lol

 

[moggy]

Yeah, I think that's the problem actually.

It takes me a while to load up the menu but I just let it load and live with it.

I think that most people just need to learn a bit of patience.

yeas i think that is also most likely to be his problem. that loading screen also had me waiting on edge for a second or two, but u have just got to hang in there and be patient and give it time.

 

[jim453]

Thanks for your 'help'.

I understand that I am not a programmer or engineer. I know how to use a computer and purchase a game. Some of you do not seem to understand what lengths I have gone to to solve my problem before coming to this forum to 'vent my spleen'.

I don't think my 'video' capabilities are at fault (whatever they are ) because I was freakishly allowed to play CS source for hours on one of my early attempts. every thing looked smooth and fine. Since then I get this loading screen hang up where the game exits to windows, it does not stay on loading for ages it totally crashes and exits to windows. From my extensive experience desperately combing the forums to find a solution it is clear that shitloads of users are finding the same difficulties.

I repeat my first point, which was NOT a plea for help (though I always appreciate the efforts of others who are generally trying to help). From my position as a relatively inexperienced gamer it is impossible to tell that i was wasting my money when I bought the game. My machine meets all the specs very easily. Including the video capabilities. It still does not work.

It is very easy to hide behind some pathetic games workshop pseudenim and slag someone off.

Do not reply, save your time. I was only making a point.

If you really do want some one from valve to give you a blow job then why would you be wasting your wothless time trying to slag me off.

 

[^Ben]

Then what did you expect on a half life 2 fan board.

We don't care about your troubles, we'll try and help but if you come on here slagging off valve we certainly aint going to help you.

It's like if you had a favourite car manafacturer, and someone bought the wrong type of petrol for the car and then comes onto a fan board of the car and starts slagging off the manafacturer when obviously people like them.

Oh and btw you card is shit, is and always will be dells are what I like to call E&S (Email and surfing machines) unless you get a higher end model.

You don't want to deal with system requirements get a console.

 

[Goethe]

I don't think my 'video' capabilities are at fault (whatever they are ) because I was freakishly allowed to play CS source for hours on one of my early attempts. every thing looked smooth and fine.

And? CS source is not HL2. Being able to play CS does not imply you will be able to play HL2

My machine meets all the specs very easily. Including the video capabilities. It still does not work.

False. Your video card is crap.

 

[Nato]

hey try this http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=65516

 

[bvasgm]

Goethe is right, there's no way in hell that Half-Life 2 is playing with onboard video. Take their advice and go pick up an ATI 9600, even if it doesn't solve your problem (which it should) you still have a relatively good graphics card that you can use for other games. :E

 

[bvasgm]

disregard previous message...

 

[Brak710101]

I hate ppl who post about things like this on non-offical forums.Just because you meet the minium system requiments, doesn't mean you system HAS to be able to play it. You may just have poorly set up PC. Or your too cheap to buy good computers (like me, I spent $14,000 on mine so i would never have any trouble). Even if I did have problems, I wouldn't whine about it, its your falt, the game works for me and hundereds of thousands of others.

 

[Goethe]

like me, I spent $14,000 on mine so i would never have any trouble

What? did you mean to say $1400?
if indeed you paid $14,000, what are your PC's specs?

 

[(Fragger)]

[SARCASM]I have an x800, 2 gb of corsair 3200 ddr, an Audigy 7.1, 16x dvd burner, 24 In. monitor, etc. I just dumped them in the case, plugged it in and can't even install the damn game! I want a refund!!![/SARCASM]

 

[Rubeus]

No, I think he meant 14,000. Else why put the comma? Clearly bullshit

 

[Goethe]

No, I think he meant 14,000. Else why put the comma? Clearly bullshit

well, maybe his monitor is a $13,000 flat panel plasma display...

 

[glitched_firewal]

who in their right mind would think that an integrated graphics card would possibly be "adequate"? what a dumbass...

 

[destrukt]

why shouldn't he and others be able to play on a integrated video card ? so it won't run fast, or with high visual settings, but why shouldn't they expect it to work ?

dumbass.

 

[Goethe]

the game would run so slow it would be virtually unplayable, or at least highly unenjoyable.

 

[glitched_firewal]

You should also try putting this in the launch options "+map backround_none" that way it doesn't have to load that backround map. That saves me a lot of load time right there. I'm not sure if that is even a real command, but it sure works for me.

launch options?
anyhows, I am really interested in turning of the menu screen map. (the random scene that takes forever) Anyone want to tell me how to turn it off?

 

[Goethe]

Right click on your Half-Life 2 Icon. On the Target field append "-console", so it looks like this C:\......\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 220 -console

 

[glitched_firewal]

thanks

 

[Mr Neutron]

I'm going to allow that his intel World-of-crap graphics will play HL2 if he says it plays CS:S. Asider from that though, he probably underestimates other issues. Here are the possibilities:

1) it really is Valve's fault because they haven't fixed a bug for your particular hardware situation.

2) It's your software installation. If you haven't tried a total reinstall of windows (INCLUDING formatting your HD), you haven't really tried everything. If you've never done this before, don't do it, but understand it usually clears up any mysterious software problems (make sure you install all latest drivers afterwards).

3) You're using a Dell, ergo you suck! Seriously, Dell uses cheap everything. Most people don't understand how hardware which loads up windows fine and runs Word perfectly stable is very possibly NOT perfectly stable at all. It maybe just takes an intensive program like a new game to crash it. Google these free programs to test your system for stability:

a) memtest86: this comes as an image you burn to CD that boots into the program. Let it run in for at least an hour. If you dont' get any errors, it means your RAM is probably fine.

b) Prime95: this tests the most fragile parts of the system.

If either of these programs reports problems, the problem still might be due to two sources: flaws in the hardware itself OR inadequate power.

 

[jellydoughnut217]

try updating ur graphics driver i had the same problem with doom 3 and once i upgraded it worked fine

 

[Teta_Bonita]

Just a moan here. read it or don't bother, i don't care. I have had enough.

I have a machine that very very easily meets the system requirements and yet the game does not work. Even after literally days spent trawling the forums for a fix. Heaven forbid that it should be valves/steams/sierras/vugames job to help. I mean after all i only legally purchased the game and no doubt swelled their vast coffers of cash, so what do I deserve.

If you have the same 'loading screen' hang up as me then do what i am about to before wasting days and days searching for a fix. Bin this rushed bug ridden game and get on with your life. hell, maybe even go outside.

If you are one of the lucky thoasands that the game works for then good luck to you, and i don't begrudge you anything. Do me a favour though and check box of your game (if you bought it). And look for where it says Dell Pc's will not work, or where it says that Phillips dvd/rw will not work. Surely you can see this is potentially irritating.

Anyway, like i said, I'm giving up. Steam/valve/sierra are a bunch of incompetent arseholes who are definately breaking trading standards laws.

No half life for me then. Unless i illeagally download it ,in which case it will work glitch free according to the hundreds of people i have spoken to that have done just that. Never mind.

Maybe you should stop posting this immature "I hate Valve and the rest of the world" crap and actually post some detailed information about your computer and the problem you having? Just because this game wont run on your ham sandwich doesn't mean that it's valve's fault to blame. No piece of software or hardware (or ham and cheese:rolling: ) is perfect. Just a thought.
Oh, and this should be in the technical forum.

 

[Brak710101]

No i said 14,000 Aleinware ALX SLI with 50" screen and Two LCD's.

Specs:

Alienware nForce4 SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
4GB Corsair memory
Dual NVIDIA GeForc 6800 Ultra
800GB Hitachi Deskstar (400GB x 2) (7,200 rpm i think)
Then, inclue the three mointors, you pass the 14,000 mark
Then, the little addons like the speakers etc...

 

[ratm9200]

Brak710101 is lucky, he wont have to buy a new computer for a whole 6 months. Unlike the rest of us who are gonna have to buy new comps in 3 months or so.

 

[ktimekiller]

hey jim, you can hate vivendi as much as you want, because i hate them, but dont have valve for your problems, you say you did everything possible, but i say not

 

[Dasparov]

No i said 14,000 Aleinware ALX SLI with 50" screen and Two LCD's.

Specs:

Alienware nForce4 SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
4GB Corsair memory
Dual NVIDIA GeForc 6800 Ultra
800GB Hitachi Deskstar (400GB x 2) (7,200 rpm i think)
Then, inclue the three mointors, you pass the 14,000 mark
Then, the little addons like the speakers etc...

and would you like to show us a picture of your computer and desk

 

[Janzar]

Your probly doing something wrong or your comps messed up, because I got a dell with the Minimum system requirements and my game runs around 70-100 fps all the time.

well someone is lieing or has directX 2 running lol

 

[Dasparov]

Gay 15min edit rule

I added up the cost (average of your mobo,cpu,memory,video card,hdd's, and 50")
USD-13,000
AUD-16,600
Euro-9,500

Sice you said $14,000 i would thing that you lived in usa or canada seeming as they are around that price. Then, you got the little addon like speakers, Desk, 2 other LCD's, PS ect.....



Either im gonna win, or im gonna get boned in this

 

[Dasparov]

well someone is lieing or has directX 2 running lol

Maybe hes getting it mixed up with codename: Gordan?

 

[CTTcrew_MrBlue]

No i said 14,000 Aleinware ALX SLI with 50" screen and Two LCD's.

Specs:

Alienware nForce4 SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
4GB Corsair memory
Dual NVIDIA GeForc 6800 Ultra
800GB Hitachi Deskstar (400GB x 2) (7,200 rpm i think)
Then, inclue the three mointors, you pass the 14,000 mark
Then, the little addons like the speakers etc...

only people with ridiculously large amounts of money will ever do that.

why? because what ever you buy it will become out of date as some new technology will come along which will smite what ever is in you machine now in a couple of years.

better make the most of it now.

 

[Alfonse]

Bahahahahahaha

Course is aint gonna work with an integrated gfx card no matter what anyone says, CS:Source may have run but its only a small environment game running only a fraction of the capabilties seen in HL2. Any PC Gamer knows you wanna play games you gotta know your stuff, maintain your PC and atleast know how a PC works and what does what.

I work for the NHS IT Dept all our PCs are Dells so I know their capabilties from the SX260 to GX280, so fanboys hold back with your 6th Form humour Ali G is a past fad.

So much anger and frustration! TBH so many people buy PCs and then wonder why they don't work after a month, its the same as owning a car if you don't maintain your PC it will start to degrade in performance. So well done in having a PC and getting on the Internet but thats only the start of owning a PC. I'm sure like me others here who have PC knowledge look after their families PCs and help maintain them. Others are not so lucky to have this kind of knowledge in their family and get ripped off by big PC retailers and other so called "PC Experts".

Knowledge is power in this case, find out about PCs and further increase your own knowledge and let not your frustration become the mockery of a forum.

PEACE OUT :cheers:

 

[popcorn]

Just a moan here. read it or don't bother, i don't care. I have had enough.

I have a machine that very very easily meets the system requirements and yet the game does not work. Even after literally days spent trawling the forums for a fix. Heaven forbid that it should be valves/steams/sierras/vugames job to help. I mean after all i only legally purchased the game and no doubt swelled their vast coffers of cash, so what do I deserve.

If you have the same 'loading screen' hang up as me then do what i am about to before wasting days and days searching for a fix. Bin this rushed bug ridden game and get on with your life. hell, maybe even go outside.

If you are one of the lucky thoasands that the game works for then good luck to you, and i don't begrudge you anything. Do me a favour though and check box of your game (if you bought it). And look for where it says Dell Pc's will not work, or where it says that Phillips dvd/rw will not work. Surely you can see this is potentially irritating.

Anyway, like i said, I'm giving up. Steam/valve/sierra are a bunch of incompetent arseholes who are definately breaking trading standards laws.

No half life for me then. Unless i illeagally download it ,in which case it will work glitch free according to the hundreds of people i have spoken to that have done just that. Never mind.

But how come HL2 works on my Dell PC? And, you contradict yourself by calling the game 'rushed, bug ridden' but then name the people that can play it 'lucky'.
I have an intergrated graphics card, and HL2 runs great.

 

[Alfonse]

Since HL2 is DX9 game how is it running "great"??????

Resolution and gfx settings plz before saying great.

 

[jim453]

The most sensible solution appears to be to stop beig so 'cheap' and buy myself a 14,000 dollar Pc. whatever!

People should not be so quick to critisise inexperience. Even after reading and appreciating (most ) posts, I still stand by my original moan. Reading the box of the game I could absolutely expect to play on some level. That may well have turned out to be a tedious and irritatingly jerky game (or may not, no one appears to know). It would have been a game none the less.

never mind. I will try plugging in a better graphics card though.

 

[Rossell]

Yes. But if you have experience with the gaming industry you will know that the minimum system requirements are a load of balls.

 

[Zeus]

HL2 works on my machine.

 

[gXxshock]

For the original thread starter:
I had the same loading screen problem and re-checking my files through steam fixed the problem (turns out that I only had 99% of the files even though it was the retail lol)
You've probably already done that but w/e

 

[Goethe]

Brak710101 is lucky, he wont have to buy a new computer for a whole 6 months. Unlike the rest of us who are gonna have to buy new comps in 3 months or so.

lol

Well you can pay as much as you want for speakers and a monitor, but that's not the computer itself. So he payed $14,000 for a system as fast as a $1000 one.

 

[Zio]

Dell Dimension
intel pentium 4, 2.66 ghz
512 mb of ram
intel direct X level 9 graphics card
way more than 4.5 GB hard drive
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B DVD drive

lets see, I have an
HP Pavilion:
Pentium 4 2.4 ghz
512mb Ram
80 gig hard drive
DVD-rom 16x max
and i forget my cd burner specs, bt thats besides the point.
I have LESS than you, and all I did was add a Radeon 9500 64mb card and BAM game runs fine.
and i bought the videocard used.
SO go on ebay and find a nice cheap videocard, like the one above, adn you'll be good

 

[dlh75]

and would you like to show us a picture of your computer and desk

Yes lets see this $14,000 PC.