Offer up some help? Thanks guys!

[Brian360]

Hey guys, new to half life. Picked up half life 2 when i purchased my pc.


I installed everything and got to play for a little while. Turned off my pc and went to play it again in a few days and steam comes up. and it says "Half life 2 100% ready" I double click it and it says "preparing to launch half life 2"

Then the screen goes black....then back to desktop. It won't do anything. I tried a fresh install and it still does the same thing. Have no clue whats going on. Any help would be great appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Brian360]

if it helps any, I have:

Intel Pentium D *2.8 ghz each*
1 Gig of ram
250 gigs of hd space
ati radeon x1650 pro 512 mb vid. card
windows vista.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Well, have you tried restarting your computer?

 

[Brian360]

Yes, I tried that. Steam comes up and I double click play and it does nothing but go black, then back to desktop

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Do you have your latest graphical drivers installed? If so, tried rolling back to earlier versions? Also do you have directx 9c installed?

 

[Brian360]

It worked before, and now it does'nt work. I did nothing different.

 

[Stucco]

It worked before, and now it does'nt work. I did nothing different.

Welcome to Vista. And you were one of the lucky ones. At least it worked once for you...

Also, have you just left it for a while? Steam can be a bitch, and just update itself REALLY slowly in the background, before maximising again and letting you continue.

 

[Brian360]

Yeah a friend told me it was a glitch in the game. and you had to go to steam.com and change one of the .bin files in the directory. I dunno though, kinda strange how it worked for a few days, now it does'nt work at all.

 

[Beerdude26]

I'm afraid I'm going to use you as a guinea pig and ask you to run the Steam Diagnostic Tool (It's from Valve, not 3rd party): steam://support/?Issues=*

I would like to ask you these questions:
- Does it say anywhere that Vista is supported?
- What does it say about your drivers?
- Any other odd problems it says?

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Yeah a friend told me it was a glitch in the game. and you had to go to steam.com and change one of the .bin files in the directory. I dunno though, kinda strange how it worked for a few days, now it does'nt work at all.

Welcome - to - vista.