Half-Life 2 failed to load and crashing once loaded [RESOLVED]
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So I just built a new system, installing Vista Business 64bit to tak
full advantage of DX10 and large amounts of memory. Not having man
games lying around, I decided to download steam and install Half Life 2
If you are reading this, and using a 64bit edition of windows, then m
guess is you are having problems with Half Life 2. I encountered tw
problems, and after a few hours was able to solve both of them
PROBLEM 1: GAME HANGS ON INITIAL LOAD (BLURRY IMAGE SCREEN
- Symptoms
- "64-bit" message was at top of scree
- game never loade
- Potential cause
- It seems that while steam intended HL2 to have a 64bit edition
with an update along the line (maybe with the release of Left4Dea
according to others) the support was broken and the game doesn'
load
- Fix
- Unfortunately, the fix removes the 64bit potential. In steam
right click half life 2, and select <Properties>
- From the dialogue box, click <Set Launch Options...
- Enter "-32bit" and select <OK
This got HL2 to load, where upon playing I encountered problem numbe
2
PROBLEM 2: GAMEPLAY CAUSES FULL SYSTEM HAN
- Symptoms
- After playing for less than 5 minutes, the game would crash an
the three fingered salute (ctrl+alt+del) couldn't get me out of it
The crash caused a full system hang that required a hard-reboo
- Potential Causes
- While from Problem 1 we are running in 32bit mode instead o
64bit, we are still running Vista
- Fix
- Go to the HL2 executable, by default [-Program File
(x86)\Steam\steamapps\<your user name>\half-life 2-
- right click on hl2.exe and select <Properties
- select the second tab, "Compatibility
- check the box for <Run this program in compatibility mode for:
- select <Windows XP (Service Pack 2)> from the drop down men
- select <Apply> then <OK
This means that we are taking a 64bit Vista compatible game, an
running it as a 32bit XP game
After these two fixes, I was able to set my video settings to max (
thought this was the original problem) and play the game withou
interruption. Hopefully steam and/or windows will fix this bug and I ca
return to the intended game settings, but do note that steam says o
their website that 64bit save files are not compatible with 32bit gam
mode. While mathematically, you should be able to load a 32bit save fil
into the 64bit game (as long as it substitutes 0x0 for the upper 32bits
I have no idea if they will support it. Oh well, another excuse to pla
through one of the greatest games to date (in my opinion!
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ltspicoli
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