help!!! hl2:ep1 and hl2: ep2 dont load!!

[saintlfuffy]

I just bought the half-life 2 episode pack yesterday and i went ahead to install episode one. ive been very anxious to play this game but when i start it up i have a problem. the little intro works fine but when it gets to the title screen it shows the background for a split second then my screen goes completely black, and my cursor shows that its loading...and after a minute it justs closes, with no error messages or nothing(episode 2 does the same but with hl2.exe has encountered....). ive tried opening up task manager and running it in a window and i see that it simply just stops responding...i don't get it. Please if you have any clue that can help me with this id very much appreciate it. Ive already tried a couple of fixes such as verifying the integrity of the cache and moving files from the "bin" folder out into where the hl2.exe file is but nothing works. My half-life 2 game works great so i dont see why these shouldn't.:|

My system:
pentium 4 cpu 2.53ghz
512 MB of ram
ati radeon 9500pro/ 9700
windows xp home edition

anything else you need to know just ask

thnx ahead of time in case you help me out

 

[chimpmunk]

Welcome to steam! That's their way of saying hello.

More seriously (but barely), have the games been recently upgraded? Did you try redownloading the games files?

 

[saintlfuffy]

yes many times..=|......im sure its my computer cause this dont happen with my freinds computer when he plays it and its like the same as mine, but i dont see how i mean i can play hl2 great with high settings

 

[saintlfuffy]

ok ima go but feel free to reply and ill get back too it as soon as possible, thnx

 

[chimpmunk]

You can try adding " - no vid " in the launch options of the game, this COULD be on the causes.

 

[saintlfuffy]

all right il try that
update: hl2:dm is also giving me this problem

 

[saintlfuffy]

ive uninstalled ep1 but im installing dm right now so ill give it try with that first then check on ep1

 

[saintlfuffy]

You can try adding " - no vid " in the launch options of the game, this COULD be on the causes.

damn that didnt work at all it just started as a black screen and thats it