Slight problem..

[Jangle]

i gotta athlon 64 3000+, a radeon 9800 pro, creative sb audigy ls. Whenever i play on any source game my game freezes, i turned off the sound in the launch properties, but the problem stil happens. Does anyone know why? Doom 3 works fine on my pc.
really grateful if anybody could help.

 

[Jangle]

also in the console, it sez stuff like:
env_cubemap used on world geometry without rebuilding map. . ignoring: concrete/concretefloor037b

Bad overlay basis at (0.000000 0.000000 0.000000)!
Bad overlay basis at (0.000000 0.000000 0.000000)!

in red so maybe that could be it..

;( please guys please be bothered to reply

 

[doomed - uk]

There's often not a lot we can suggest.

There is some official advice on freezing here and
here.


You might want to search the forums here, at steampowered.com and other HL2 and CS:S websites.

 

[eatbugs]

have you scratched the disk??

 

[giant384]

a scratch on the disk wouldnt cause this to happen

 

[Jangle]

i have done everything on the help and support, AND emailed valve but they didnt reply. Do you think it is a problem with my pc or the disk? If it is the disk i will take it back and get a new one.

 

[doomed - uk]

Faulty disks sound unlikely to cause the problem, but Valve do include freezing in the problems for this page where can check you HL2 and other source files are okay. It's here. I think if that checks out, then the disk or disks are possibly okay.

The errors you mention in your second post, many people including me see errors in the console of games that are otherwise functioning as they should as it seems Valve leave some loose ends in the program, so there is a possibility that it is unrelated to the freeze problem.

Freezing is something I've heard mentioned more than a few times, and I've suffered from it myself occasionally.