HL2 E2: Crashing during the strider battle leven at same spot...

[jca2007]

In Half Life 2: Episode 2 I get a crashing error everytime as I go under some stairs into the room where there are two hunters and a scientist shooting at the hunters and a rebel on the ground getting beat to death by the hunters. Every time I move for or start shooting at the enemy my game crashes back to desktop.

The only thing I can think of is I updated my graphics card and played the game afterwards which then is where it started. I updated my 8800GT 320 mb to the new 169.12 beta drivers. Was working fine with the 169.09. But I wanted to update. I also have 4gig ram, 3gig readable as I am running on Windows Vista 32bit, and Core 2 Duo 6700.

Vista gives me this error information:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: hl2.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 470c11ae
Fault Module Name: client.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 470bb8b3
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00208f3f
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

 

[Futbollfan]

I have this exact same problem, but I don't have the type of hardware that the previous poster has. Is there anything that can be done to address this issue? I have the most recent driver updates.

 

[FoxDie]

There seem to be some problem areas popping up in Episode 2 where people are getting crashes in the exact same spots. Not really sure what the fix is, although I hope it comes out soon because I'd like to play EP2

 

[jca2007]

There seem to be some problem areas popping up in Episode 2 where people are getting crashes in the exact same spots. Not really sure what the fix is, although I hope it comes out soon because I'd like to play EP2

Hmmmm.... I had my paging file turned off. So I changed it to 15000mb and now it seems to be working. Or it may have worked because I went back up the metal stairs instead of going under them in that little opening, and waiting a few minutes until everything kind of slowed down, and then I went in, and it worked perfect after that and I finally finished the game!