Please Help

[LordVencedor]

Hi all, I just bought Half Life holiday 2006 edition and installed it... Then, when I boot up Half Life: source and the screen with 'loading' has passed I get this screen with an image (some sort of reactor thing, i don't know) and the game doesn't move anymore, I waited for like, 20 minutes, can someone help me on this?

 

[Operational]

Normally that would be a menu screen like this

I'm not sure what you can do about it though - you can't even get into the console 'cus you can't activate it.

I would suggest looking at http://support.steampowered.com for help and then try contacting valve (same page) if you can't find anything.

Have you tried any other games from the pack?

Excellent purchase BTW, issues not-with-standing, it's very good value - have you played Half-Life before?

 

[naisanza]

What are your computer specs?

 

[Shasta]

Click on "New Game"?

Believe it or not, I have heard of people not seeing the menu text, and just sitting, waiting....

 

[Beerdude26]

It happened to me sometimes that my firewall (or Windows Firewall) blocked my mouse (don't ask me why :|). So make sure you allow HL:S to connect to the internet in your firewall permissions.

 

[LordVencedor]

Yeah I see a screen like the title screen, only it's blurry and there is no text on it, so I don't know what to do.

 

[Beerdude26]

Yeah I see a screen like the title screen, only it's blurry and there is no text on it, so I don't know what to do.

Before you start the game, open up a folder. Doesn't matter which one. Then, fire the game up. Press ALT + TAB (it might take a while to go back to desktop) and check if there is a firewall notification.

 

[Jintor]

No "Loading"? No moving of the map? (Almost all HL2 menu background maps move or have moving elements in them).

 

[LordVencedor]

Thanks, it was the firewall, thank you for your help