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Lord Kimbo
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I have searched this forum and seen some helpful and not so helpful input on this common problem. Anyone with "real advice" have any words of wisdom?
This game/process worked perfectly on my system before Christmas'05 before I formated my system and did a clean install of everything due to new SATA HD I got and vid card upgrade.
So at this point my system is a clean install of WinXP SP2 all updates done. DX 9.0c, latest ATi 6.1 drivers (x850XT card).
Every game I have on my system (and every App) works perfect (FEAR, BF2, Quake IV, NFS Most Wanted, AOE III, etc...).
I do a fresh install of Steam and HL2, no problem. Re-enable my Steam account, do Steam updates, do HL2 updates ... all no problem. Can see servers running in Multiplayer Steam app, etc... no problem.
I launch HL2 (now that the updates are done) and it says "launching HL2" ... but then the HL2.exe process just stops and nothing happens. Freak'ing annoying!!!
I uninstalled it as I had insatlled on my Games partition (D drive) and put it back on the default of C drive (my Windows partition) as I thought that may be confusing it. It made no difference. Exact same thing happened.
I think Steam is OK, it is the game that is getting caught up.
I ran the Steam validation/check utility and all checked out OK.
I am at a complete loss. I have never seen such troubles (especially with a clean install of Windows).
Appreciate your "helpful" opinion other than "your system is screwed up".
PS. I have put my system in DMZ and disabled anti-virus ... it has made no difference (and it shouldn't as I played and finished the game before I formatted my system with system behind firewall and anti-virus running (Symantec V9 Corporate)).
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This game/process worked perfectly on my system before Christmas'05 before I formated my system and did a clean install of everything due to new SATA HD I got and vid card upgrade.
So at this point my system is a clean install of WinXP SP2 all updates done. DX 9.0c, latest ATi 6.1 drivers (x850XT card).
Every game I have on my system (and every App) works perfect (FEAR, BF2, Quake IV, NFS Most Wanted, AOE III, etc...).
I do a fresh install of Steam and HL2, no problem. Re-enable my Steam account, do Steam updates, do HL2 updates ... all no problem. Can see servers running in Multiplayer Steam app, etc... no problem.
I launch HL2 (now that the updates are done) and it says "launching HL2" ... but then the HL2.exe process just stops and nothing happens. Freak'ing annoying!!!
I uninstalled it as I had insatlled on my Games partition (D drive) and put it back on the default of C drive (my Windows partition) as I thought that may be confusing it. It made no difference. Exact same thing happened.
I think Steam is OK, it is the game that is getting caught up.
I ran the Steam validation/check utility and all checked out OK.
I am at a complete loss. I have never seen such troubles (especially with a clean install of Windows).
Appreciate your "helpful" opinion other than "your system is screwed up".
PS. I have put my system in DMZ and disabled anti-virus ... it has made no difference (and it shouldn't as I played and finished the game before I formatted my system with system behind firewall and anti-virus running (Symantec V9 Corporate)).
:frown:
