HL2 DM not starting?

[CyberPitz]

It goes to the "Prepairing" after you double click HL2 DM. But it just never opens...the dialog box disappears...but hl2dm never shows up in Task Manager or anything, tried restarting steam...anyone else?

 

[Tyguy]

ya me too, at least im not the only one...whats goin on with that

 

[ktimekiller2]

i cant play too, i tried restarting comp and stuff

 

[Shadow][]

yeah same for me, both hl2 and hl2dm =\

 

[Yombi]

yup, does it will all the source games. HL2, CSS, HL2dm. No idea why

 

[Death.Trap]

Same here. =/

 

[Chiefi]

None of my steam games work since I downloaded Hl2dm.

 

[CyberPitz]

ill try starting CSS and HL2...

 

[Tyguy]

Valve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fix It

 

[CyberPitz]

yup, nothing is starting up lol hope a fix is soon..this is quite the oddity going to steampowered forums

 

[antimatter]

Yup same here. Nothing works after that update.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

It goes to the "Prepairing" after you double click HL2 DM. But it just never opens...the dialog box disappears...but hl2dm never shows up in Task Manager or anything, tried restarting steam...anyone else?

pple need patience.
do u realize how many pple are currently restarting their Steam so they can get the update? the content servers are busy handling all the updating and so its only natural that the available games are temporarily down.

i want to play it too...but i know its best to just go to bed so i can get up for work in the morning.. oh well.

 

[samtheman]

Same thing is happening to me - although it says that HL2DM is 100% complete and nothing else is updating, steam is still downloading something..

 

[Tyguy]

weird, there workin on it right now i assume, they have to be

 

[Lunacy Fringe]

EVERYTHING works fine for me, just no servers in HL2DM.

 

[KiMcH33]

same..

 

[m0nr]

maybe this was the surprise they promised us

 

[Retro_X]

Mine doesn't work either, but I noticed something when I started up the SDK.

It said that HL2 isn't up to date...i'm validating my files now and see if that'll work.

 

[COMBO RICO]

same here

 

[Tyguy]

but you should still be able to play hl2

 

[Dark2Light]

i went into my steamapps folder and tried to run it from there and i got this error gameinfo.txt doesn't exist in hl2

 

[CyberPitz]

EVERYTHING works fine for me, just no servers in HL2DM.

obviously it works for a few (people already spotted glitches) oh well

 

[JHD536]

Thank God I'm not alone; now I don't have to reinstall.

Sucks that it's happening, though.

 

[Dark2Light]

I found the gameinfo.txt in the hl2mp folder under hl2 deathmatch and this is what it says

"GameInfo"
{
FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 320 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S, 220=HL2).

//
// The code that loads this file automatically does a few things here:
//
// 1. For each "Game" search path, it adds a "GameBin" path, in <dir>\bin
// 2. For each "Game" search path, it adds another "Game" path in front of it with _<langage> at the end.
// For example: c:\hl2\cstrike on a french machine would get a c:\hl2\cstrike_french path added to it.
// 3. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "MOD".
// 4. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "DEFAULT_WRITE_PATH".
//

//
// Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found.
//
// |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is.
// We always want to mount that directory relative to gameinfo.txt, so
// people can mount stuff in c:\mymod, and the main game resources are in
// someplace like c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\half-life 2.
//
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game hl2
}
}
}

 

[onehunglo]

same for me, already to late.. almost 1 a.m here

 

[Ames]

Meh, I'm going to go sleep. Hopefully everything will be better in the morning.

 

[HeadCrab Victim]

Not coming up for me.

 

[Helios]

Same for me

 

[DoctorGordon3]

I have fallen victim to this also.

 

[Dark2Light]

hey, how many of you tried to download the hl2mp?? like the non official one

 

[SkylineGT-R34]

Nothing works, not HL2DM, not CS:S not even HL2 .... wtf!!

 

[xio2k3]

awww oh well I am going to bed I got work at 5:00am !! :dozey:
It will be all fixed up tommorw !

 

[DoctorGordon3]

Hey! The SDK is working though.

 

[JustinH]

No go here either, hl2.exe will launch for a few seconds, then it closes. I think this has something to do with that unofficial MP, I had it installed.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

I had no mods installed and mine won't start either.

 

[skater4evr5]

No go here either, hl2.exe will launch for a few seconds, then it closes. I think this has something to do with that unofficial MP, I had it installed.

i didnt downloaded any of that crap so mine should work #$!@#%!%@$%^@$#%^$#^@#$^@#^

 

[Retro_X]

I dnt think it updated fully....

 

[COMBO RICO]

i don't think so justin, just a glitch. people need to learn patience, not saying u do. lets just all enjoy the anticipation man i luv bein happy hehe

 

[Ames]

I had no mods installed and mine won't start either.

Same with me here.

 

[Midnight Oil]

Same here... no mods. Steam forum is down too... Guess I'll go to bed too