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Half Life 2 Problems

Posted in PC Games, Hardware, First Person Shooter, Backwards Compatible by Elliott Back on November 2nd, 2005. [Del.icio.us]

I bought Half Life 2 the other day, and looked forward to blasting through the Lost Coast HDR demo, but I enountered some problems. See, there’s a known issue with certain video cards, namely the NVIDIA Geforce GO series (6200go, 6400go, and 6800go) where the game bluescreens when you try to load it. I tried all the solutions above and was able to run it with the -window flag, but to me that’s not good enough. You shouldn’t have to choose between inferior gameplay and the blue screen of death. So, to anyone with a new Sony Vaio, Half Life 2 or any other Steam/Source Engine game might not be for you.

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100 Responses to 'Half Life 2 Problems'

Mark said:
on December 22nd, 2005 at 9:14 pm

if you run with the -window command, then in the game options change to fullscreen, it works ok, i had the exact same problem
joe said:
on March 5th, 2006 at 1:40 am

I’ve also hade problems with Half-Life 2.
It happens every time I play half-life or counter-strike games. When ever it goes to the main menu, it shows squares instead words.
please help me!
The Freeman said:
on March 15th, 2006 at 1:52 pm

I try to start HL2 but it says my video driver is outdated and I need to upgrade how do I do that?
bal free man said:
on March 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm

theirs a problem that when i play (when i reach black mesa at the beggining) the lady inside walks to the elevator the elevator comes up and then………..she doesnt move!!!!! why why why………! hm help!!!!! whats wrong i need help
Alex said:
on April 16th, 2006 at 11:47 am

I have a problem too. I run the game and just after you leap through the window after meeting barney, the game begins to load the next section and then ceases to work, please help, I’m desperate to play this game!!
stevey said:
on April 26th, 2006 at 11:21 pm

god! im trying to install half life 2 and theres always a error! ahh help and i did click on counter strike and reseted and it still wont work help!!!!!!!!
maxim said:
on May 14th, 2006 at 2:21 pm

theirs a problem that when i play (when i reach black mesa at the beggining) the lady inside walks to the elevator the elevator comes up and then………..she doesnt move!!!!! please help me
Pepe said:
on June 17th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

I have a big problem with HL2E1: I CAN’T SEE ALL THE OBJECTS IN THE GAME!!, I can’t explain because i have the last driver of nvidia card installed(is GEforce 5500) with great performance in the game, but i realize that there are some objects missing(like medic kits, ammo, some doors, walls, ect ect) can anyone tell me the way to fix this?
PLEASE!!!
Thanks all.
Artdanet said:
on June 20th, 2006 at 5:59 am

I have the same problem, Pepe! Some elements in HL2 E1 are transparent! No clue…
Lb.J. said:
on June 20th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

yeah i ve same problems too some items didn’t seen, some walls are purple and etc.. i have geforce fx 5200 i’ve downloaded the latest version of graphic ard but the problem still not solved. dunno what to do..
Tenshihan said:
on June 26th, 2006 at 9:03 pm

Apparently tens of thousands of people all over the planet are having the same problems with this game, …and yet Valve has done NOTHING to help us out (no patch, or even an apology) - they just keep recommending that we reconfigure our entire computer to suit THEIR game???

…am I the only one who thinks that’s a huge crock of sh*t? Sure, the HALF-LIFE series has a great story and the best graphics - but if we CAN’T PLAY THE F%*ing thing - then what good is it?

Valve - you SUCK!!!
Dave said:
on June 28th, 2006 at 7:56 am

Mark’s first reply works well, i had the same problem and it works now. Right click on the game in the steam window and select properties. Then click on ‘Set launch options’ and in the box, type ‘-windowed’ . Then put it back to full screen once in the game.
Tenshihan said:
on June 28th, 2006 at 6:07 pm

Do any of you also have brand new computers that use dual-core processors?

My specs are:

System: Microsoft Windows XP, Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service pack 2.
Computer model: Gateway DX300S, Intel ‘Pentium D’ CPU Processor 2.80 GHz (X2 = 5.6 GHz), 1.00 GB of RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 - 128 mb RAM

Despite having a new computer, with every upgrade (Direct X9c, newest video and audio drivers, etc) - along with all these apparent ’solutions’, I still cannot get the damn game to run without crashing!

I have tried everything that has been recommended by both; Valve forum members - as well as by the actual ADMIN at Valve, and STILL - nothing works! …I even set my system to only use ONE processor to run the game - and still no luck.

Why the hell couldn’t they make the game playable to everyone?

So much for Beta testing, huh?
pinki2 said:
on July 2nd, 2006 at 6:28 am

hi when i am on steam and i click connect to server it says video card is outdated so i installed a new 1 but now it aint even detecting the new 1 what shall i do
Larssa said:
on July 5th, 2006 at 9:21 am

To Maxim:

I had the same problem as you but here, try this:

While in the game press ESC and use the console.

In the console write “ai_disable” without the quotes.

That should do it:P
NALLS!! said:
on July 9th, 2006 at 8:45 pm

HELP!! i get to the end of the first level where you go threw thoughs glowing blue doors and theres a blue lit up hallway with a bunch of soldiers at the end.. and the girl can run up there but as soon as i cross the first wall the screen goes blank.. but i can still see my health and all that yellow info… but everything else is BLACK.. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF

help!!!
Bert Haskina said:
on July 10th, 2006 at 9:53 am

I bought thegame Half-LIfe 2. this and tried to install it on one of my machines.
It did not install and only gave me the message that ” an error log was being created” !!!!!! CRAP !!!!!!”
I then tried to install in on another one of my machines.
This time it told me that it would not install because the
serial number had already been registered.
Yes, of course it been registered before, by me on
the puked installation.
I have wasted a lot of time on their web site trying to get this fixed and of course they don’t answer emails or anything else.
As if this not bad enough, it has left over five gig of crap on my machine because their uninstall program really doesn’t (uninstall).
Now if this was not bad enough it turns out that most of this crap is advertising for some of their other games.
Talk about rubbing salt in someone wounds!!!
Is there any way that I can get this to work?
Thanks
kloki said:
on July 12th, 2006 at 10:33 am

where to get patch for HL2 ep1 for texture and runtime error
crispyllama said:
on July 12th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

i need serious help! and i cant find anywhere to fix em. 1st of all, when i shoot glass in game, it shows all the vectors of what the broken glass would be, but no glass break-age! and it says in console, ‘missing shader glass_shatter’ or something like that.
2nd, when ever theres an animated texture (like the one on the floor in the lab at the beginning” it just shows the blank white square where it should be.
3rd, when u head ANYone speak through speakers (like breen at the beginning on the huge screens) i cant hear what he says.
what do i do!
smook said:
on July 13th, 2006 at 8:18 am

I am getting errors on half-life 2 episode 1.

Engine Error.

Internal driver error
In IDirect3DDevice::Present()

Cannot play this game on my machine?!

DELL XPS 8200 3.2mhz 1gb ATI x1600 video

Why so many errors with this product? Where do you get help?
konaguy said:
on July 17th, 2006 at 9:52 am

i get the error on some maps not all
failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVetexBuffer
can any1 tell me how to fix it
lostboy said:
on July 20th, 2006 at 3:26 am

i cant see any objects in hl2 epiosde one.i need to see the objects or else i’ll never complete the game.Is there any patch to fix that problem.
jon said:
on July 21st, 2006 at 12:49 pm

sounds like valve has left us in the dark…..
Pipo said:
on July 29th, 2006 at 2:07 am

Solution:
In the console game type….:

mat_dxlevel 90

and configure your video-texture in medium, in the game
that is end….
now play hl2 in DX9 mode with FX5200 o higher
if the perforce is poor try : mat_dxlevel 70
good luck
indzman said:
on August 10th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

I Recently bought original half life 2 episode 1.It costed half the cost of original half life 2. My created Steam account activated/updated the game via net and the game now runs pretty well minus the glitches.I recommend buying the original pack.
Kuriente said:
on August 14th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

I’ve also been having some issues with Episode One but haven’t found anyone else who has this exact problem. I’ve had HL2 installed on my system for a long time and it runs great, I’ve got everything I need to run it and then some. I can also run Lost Coast, CS:Source and basically any other source game I’ve thrown at it.

However when I purchased EP1 a few weeks back I ran into a problem. It installs fine (far as I can tell), it gets all of the updates, tells me it’s “100%-Ready) but crashes when I try to open it. I don’t even get a black screen, it just thinks about it for a few seconds and then desides it doesn’t feel like it and Windows tells me that HL2.exe encountered an error had to close. I can still play all my other source games but not this one.

I was thinking that maybe something was wrong with the disk, though I doubt the instalation would complete if that were the case, so I tried installing it on a friends computer and it works like it’s supposed to. I know my computer isn’t lacking because I built both mine and his and I have tried a multitude of graphics settings but to no avail. This is the only game that has ever given me this much headache so if anyone had any idea it would be helpful.

Thanks in advance
gonfou said:
on August 15th, 2006 at 3:53 pm

I have Geforce Fx5200, got problem with purple walls and no objects..

PIPO’s solution worked for me for fixing the wall textures.. dxlevel 90 is too heavy, but dxlevel 70 works, there are some glitches here and there though..

however the objects remain missing, but i have noticed that in the console it says ‘error vertex file for ‘(whatever object)’ not found’ for each object that is invisible..

NOW I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX THAT THOUGH

but it might learn others how to..
gonfou said:
on August 15th, 2006 at 4:32 pm

I figured it out…

I run episode one on a geforce fx5200..
it has a hardware directx level of 8.0
My software dxlevel is 9.0
I have purple walls and invisible objects..

In the console I noticed a whole list with this line e.g.:
“error vertex file for ‘gibs/glass_shard01.mdl’ not found”

this line repeats itself for each mdl file of which the vertex file is not found, like healthkits, ammo,…

so i went to check on these mdl files in the hl2 map.. they are located in hl2\models. It seems that the vertex files of the mdl files mentioned are all called e.g. “glass_shard01.dx90.vtx” instead of just “glass_shard01.vtx”, implicating that they require directx level 9.0.

So I tried mat_dxlevel 90 in the console, like pipo said, and all the objects loaded perfectly. However, my graphics card can’t keep up.

changing the names of the vtx files didn’t work so far..

The only real solution I see is buying a graphics card that runs directx 9.0.

It sucks

Valve should create a fix to make the models load in directx 8.0
gonfou said:
on August 15th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

I changed the filename “(object).dx90.vtx” to “(object).dx80.vtx” and it works !!!! the models load in directx 8.0 !!

god was I happy when that car appeared..

anyway it takes a long time to change all the file names so VALVE should fix this….

but this is the ultimate solution to the problem..
Mike said:
on August 17th, 2006 at 9:14 pm

i just bought this game and i cant get it to run, it says that theres a file from the steam library that is missing and i have no idea what is talkin about, can someone please end my madness?!?!
Slip said:
on August 22nd, 2006 at 6:08 pm

Hey guys,

Someone has mentioned it before. the error message says “idirect3ddevice”, now i am not software pro, but have no idea why this comes up. it happens when i try to create a server, but sometimes when i am just trying to play a normal game. could someone please offer some advice?
Boereshark said:
on August 24th, 2006 at 4:04 am

Twin Women in HL2 Nova Prospeckt level

For some reason a second version of Alex appeared alongside me in the area after she tells you to go ahead - she will help to open doors, etc from the control room (she communicates via the screens).

This other twin followed me wherever I went but didn’t help with fighting the combines - just followed me and generally got in my way. At the end of the stage where you set up the sentry guns in the control booth, the real Alex dropped through the ceiling, leaving me with two identiical twins! Now if only these were better circumstances…

The second twin didn’t reappear when the next level loaded and this strange event didn’t occur when I played HL2 for the first time.
Mari said:
on September 24th, 2006 at 8:25 am

HELP!! i get to the end of the first level where you go threw thoughs glowing blue doors and theres a blue lit up hallway with a bunch of soldiers at the end.. and the girl can run up there but as soon as i cross the first wall the screen goes blank.. but i can still see my health and all that yellow info… but everything else is BLACK.. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF

help!!!
Mari said:
on September 24th, 2006 at 8:35 am

I get to the end of the first level where you go threw thoughs glowing blue doors and theres a blue lit up hallway with a bunch of soldiers at the end.. and the girl can run up there but as soon as i cross the first wall the screen goes blank.. but i can still see my health and all that yellow info… but everything else is BLACK.. help!!!
Scott said:
on September 30th, 2006 at 10:11 am

I recently installed half-life 2 again because I wanted to play it again, however the game wont load, saying “the latest version of microsoft directx is required to play half-life 2. Problem is, I have the latest version of directx on my machine. Can anyone tell me why the game wont work now, but it worked perfectly fine last year when I bought the game??? Thanks.

I have a GeForce FX 5200, 1.5GB DDR RAM, P4 3.2GHz HT.
Matt said:
on October 5th, 2006 at 7:37 am

I started playing HL2E1 and everything was fine. No problems with the loading or the picture or even the gameplay (altho the loading is pretty slow but that’s my computer).

I got to the level where you have to escort the troops past the combine through the courtyard, through the warehouse with the trains and into the moving train. THEN just as the last one gets onto the train and the game starts to load the next stage….nothing it crashes!! How do i get around this as i really want to finish the game??

Someone help please!!
BrianH said:
on October 9th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

Hi, it has been awhile since Episode 1 came out, and I decided to download it and play it again, but Im getting that same error with missing vertex stuff.
Some transparent objects are simply invisible, like the car blocking the cliff ledge right at the beginning, or the bridge leading you inside the citadel once Dog tosses you across the gap…

I Had this problem before, and I remember it can be fixed by one simple command line argument, but I totally forget what it was
It was like -uselowdetailtextures or something along those lines… Does anyone know what im talking about?

It seems that this message board only contains problems, not any solutions. I’ve tried all the above mentioned techniques but to no avail.
help said:
on October 10th, 2006 at 12:47 am

Help
wat video card do need to play this
soooo frusrating
counterstrike condition source works but it so slow
i can play but it go so so so slow
i have good comp so help

plz
Fahmi said:
on October 10th, 2006 at 8:30 pm

Hi,im from Malaysia.Y’all know what man?Installing HL2 E1 is okay,man.But please
!!!!!!HELP!!!!!!!! I started the game then in the first loading part(I ain’t talkin’ about first level)a few seconds,the pc restarts. Man,What da f*ck.Please help me homies I love the game(but not Alyx)the graphics,maybe I’ll send a mail to Valve to tell them that HL2 E1 is my favourite game PLEASE HELP ME I AINT USING MALAYSIAN VERSION OR WHATEVA MAN
AT least I got lots of my pc Upgraded with Nvidia Geforce 6200 please man others have other problem
CedricX said:
on October 27th, 2006 at 2:09 am

If anyone have purple walls, lost med kits, ammo, car hanging over the cliff etc, try reinstalling hl2 ep1. I know it’s tedious, but it worked for me…
I remember walking near at the edge of the cliff where you supposed to “shoot” the car that blocks your way. I can’t even see that car, after that when the player and Alyx reached inside the catadel, I see more purple squares on the walls of the catadel. Open the console and it says I have missing textures. Initially what I try to do is replacing the texture files from the CD one by one. Guess what? It makes things worst…
Give it a try by reinstalling ep1, who knows it might work??
thoowe said:
on November 1st, 2006 at 7:17 pm

hello to all dx81 gamers,
i use a radeon9000 (ibm t41) which only support directx81. At the beginning I also didn’t see any items. Most of them were invisible. i took a look into the console and the console says there are some vertex files missing. So i put all available *dx80.vtx files from the HL2 deathmatch game (good to have one) into the HL2 episode one directory (hl2e1/hl2/models/) and now it works. now i can see most of the stuff. O.k., some items are still invisible, thats because these items don’t exist in my HL2 deathmatch game. But now it playable.
So I think it is a problem with the vertex files (vtx)
bob said:
on November 3rd, 2006 at 4:18 pm

“I changed the filename “(object).dx90.vtx” to “(object).dx80.vtx” and it works !!!! the models load in directx 8.0 !!

god was I happy when that car appeared..

anyway it takes a long time to change all the file names so VALVE should fix this….

but this is the ultimate solution to the problem.. ”
-gonfou

care to upload them so I dont have to change each one
Chris said:
on November 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

right… i bought the HL” episode 2 game of the year edition and i cant play any of hl it sais as i launch the game hl2.exe has encounterd a problem and needs to close we are sorry for the inconvenience

plz HELP!!! i wanna play so much but i cant thnx
Ken said:
on November 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

When i load up the game i get an engine error it says “IDirect3DDevice9::present()” this is only when i run the game full screen. It run in a window but i would like tp play full screen.
Ming said:
on November 10th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

sometimes playing HL2 and when it comes to the loading part, it will just hang there and waited until i have to restart my pc. May i know is there any solution for this?
Gonzo said:
on November 13th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

My problem is not even listed here.
I can’t install at all, my drive thinks no disc is in it, and when I put the disc in
my CDRW/DVD drive, it says that the disc has 0 bytes used,0 bytes available.
Thomas said:
on November 23rd, 2006 at 5:26 am

Hello Mari
I have the exact same problem!! Did you find a solution? When I launch the gave I get a message that my video driver is outdated, do you get the same?

Mari said:
on September 24th, 2006 at 8:35 am

I get to the end of the first level where you go threw thoughs glowing blue doors and theres a blue lit up hallway with a bunch of soldiers at the end.. and the girl can run up there but as soon as i cross the first wall the screen goes blank.. but i can still see my health and all that yellow info… but everything else is BLACK.. help!!!
phil said:
on November 27th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

this is awesome!

-window

Add that in the command line of your game and away you go, Happy crowbarring things…..
zippo said:
on December 23rd, 2006 at 9:24 am

when ever i play css (counterstrike source) it lets me play for a couple of rounds and then it says something like IDirect3Device::present couldnot be found…what does this mean and how do i fix it?
Abhishek said:
on December 26th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

man this hl2 episode, errors that are being created on my fx 5200 is buging me a lot does any one if there is any patch availaible to fix all the problems like invisible objects and shit………………………………

VALVE sucks big time I hope they hang themselves…………….why the hell do they make such games………………….if we cant play the F**king thing……………….
valve sucks said:
on January 9th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

WTF! I buy a game thinking I can just go home and play. come to find out, I need an internet connection. ok, fine. I install steam, which I hate, and think maybe ill be able to play now. nope, when I get to a loading screen, the game freezes. Boo valve, boo half life 2, and especially boo valve!
Snake said:
on January 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

Does anyone have resolved this problem on Half Life 2 “engine error : failed to lock vertex buffer in CmeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer” ?

I have an HP Pavillion dv2120us with an AMD Turion 64×2 1.63 Ghz processor, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA Geforce GO 6150 256MB video card, XP Media Center.

I have updated everything but i kept getting the message or the game just freeze on a loading.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt said:
on January 31st, 2007 at 8:16 pm

I have been having a similar problem.. i can load up the game alright and play it untill the first load comes along… (this is the part where u have just jumped out of the window to escape being caught with that undercover dude) and this loads alrigth… excepts once it has finished loading the game suddenly freezes and says it has encountered an error and must be shut down… this is getting on my nerves… any help??
ANightToDismember said:
on February 7th, 2007 at 3:22 am

Wow, there seems to be a lot of problems with all of HL games.

Here are some possible solutions to some common problems:

“HL2E1: I CAN’T SEE ALL THE OBJECTS IN THE GAME!!”

I assume some of you downloaded *cough*pirated*cough* Half Life Versions. Well, this is usually not the best way to go for a game but if you did download HL2E1, there’s a torrent from PROViSiON for an Update of missing textures. If you use direct x 7/8 (on older cards), then you MUST have this update and replace/add the missing files/textures, otherwise it’ll be a pain in the ass to complete - even play - the game. If you are running through a genuine Steam account, just keep your game up to date and configure properly and install the newest drivers. I used to have an old geforce 4 card and I couldn’t see shit without the update. I know have a geforce go and since i know use directx9 I no longer need the update.

You can’t even run Half-Life? Try to always keep your drivers up to date. It’s the best way to get the halfbitch running. In my experience, I had a 64MB Nvidia Geforce 4 and even with that shitty card I could get HL2 and HL2E1 up and running, I just had to update my drivers because the game crashed early on an appartment scene.

Also, If you are a Geforce GO user (I have a geforce go 7400) and you have the infamous “failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVetexBuffer” error; a simple way to fix it is to update to directx 9.0c (on newer cards), if all fails, try to run your game with directx 8. just add the mat_dxlevel 81 to the console. My card supports directx9, yet it had this nasty lock vertex buffer bug, so i just tried to play using directx 8 and it works smoothly, although I had to sacrifice some visual options like Full HDR compatibility.

“the lady inside walks to the elevator the elevator comes up and then………..she doesnt move!!!!!”

Someone’s already answered this AI problem, just look in all of the comments. Another old dirty trick is to quickly save the game before she enters the elevator. Quit the game and return. Load the saved file and continue. If that doesn’t work, then use the ai disable command in the console. Look for the exact instructions in other posts.
Josh said:
on February 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

I installed Half Life 2 on my compuer last summer and took it off now I’m trying to put back on and it wont let me. The game says the password is not right. WHY?
Chris said:
on February 18th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

I just bought Half Life 2 and installed it. The load screen displays perfectly and everything, but when the main menu pops up its just a black screen. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
evans said:
on February 20th, 2007 at 11:51 am

Tenshihan, try running your ram at 2T, if you have it at 1T now. Battlefield 2 was causing me the same problems (crash to desktop) until I did that.
wtf said:
on February 21st, 2007 at 3:35 pm

I freeze at the loading screen and need to restart. GG
ShadowKiller said:
on February 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 am

hey i installed hl2….its workin great n all…..but after meetin tht barney idiot….i jump outta da window…..afta tht i try to get into da door but its comes writtn “loadin”…..afta it loads i start movin up da staircase and an error comes dat some crap happened and it need to close “unusually” or sumtin…..pls help….its such an awesome game…i wanna play it badly :’(
Sara said:
on February 25th, 2007 at 7:58 pm

hey i know everyones got HL2 but my computer only can handle the first HL… :/ sucks!
but i still love the game… it used to work perfectly on ym computer years ago, but i treid to reinstall it today and it did well, so i click on play new game and as soon as i hit on Easy Medium or Difficult, even with the cd allready in the drive, it says please put cd in. but there is cd in there… what the hell?
help.. or ill go crazy
xnikox said:
on March 1st, 2007 at 5:38 pm

I downloaded the HL2 demo to see iff it would run on my computer. The downloading went well, but when i turn the game on *BLUESCREEN*, crashes my computer. I’m still gonna download the demo on my other computer and see if it works there (it’s a newer one). Btw, the ‘-windowed’ command doesn’t work still crashes.
deo said:
on April 8th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

I had the demo and it worked but with many of the errors listed above but i got through it but when i bough the goddamn game only the splash screen loaded then windows came up saying it encountered a problem and needed to close.
deo said:
on April 8th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

ok, its offical valve sux balls
Zasz said:
on April 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Thanks guys all your posts helped me a lot
Bibkba said:
on May 29th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Fanx the I found the provision update and all is well……..
Ultima said:
on June 6th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

Help!
I just got Half life 2 lost coast from the steam offer with my laptop.

Though I thought i’d run it on my Nvidia Geforce 6200 Turbocache, it starts loading and I feel a slight stop then I BSOD, But I put -windowed it but it worked then i tried changing resolution to 1280×1024 and it no longer works I now get a BSOD
Random said:
on July 4th, 2007 at 5:44 am

This may sound stupid but how do you update your GFX Card Driver?
And what other drivers do i need to update?
GG said:
on July 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

WTF! , i have a problem with the Steam when i Run it after a Few min (Steam has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience). Help me Guys !
bob monaghan said:
on August 1st, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Just purchased half life 2.Will not load.Nooo help from stream..stream sucks. All I get is a blurred screen with the loadind icon going.then computers freezes up Can not call anyone..comp usa wants 30.00 to try and install the game I bought for 20.00 no refunds
Crazy said:
on August 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 am

Hi Guys,

I have latest system and trying to play half life 2. Its works well but when i save the game and reload it again the objetcs stops moving. They all are freezed.

Please help me!!!

Thanks
galtz said:
on August 13th, 2007 at 2:09 am

***THE BLACK MESA EAST BUG FIX***

I got stuck in that spot and searched my brains out for that. Even in here, there is no fix or nothing. Finally i started messing with the game and found a solution. Its simple really. Just go into the elevator press F6 wait one second and press F9 then. Its quick save and quick load. It works every time.

Have fun!

- galtz
Damse said:
on September 18th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Hello!
Thanks for all the solutions you have posted here..
I ‘ve already change all the hell names and now i can see the objects… but..

What happen with the purple walls ans textures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

This make me sick! I’ve tried everything.. but there is no change… so
What should i do???

Caa any one tell me?

Thanks!
fire_karapa@hotmail.com said:
on September 25th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

Please someone help me, I had recently installed Half Life 2: episode one, but when i put on the steam it launch, then when the screen turn black and begin to load my computer restart… I have Nvidia 6200 XFX 256 MB
please I don’t know what to do
firee,,

Thank you
Alphaskull said:
on November 1st, 2007 at 7:22 am

Hey everyone. I just brought the Orange Box pack and it has half life 2, episode 1, episode 2 and Portal. I have Directx 9.0c installed and when I try to play episode 2 or Portal it only gets to the main title screen and closes the game, then i comes up with an error “This game has a minimum requirement of directx 8.0 to run properly.” Episode 1 works but Portal and ep 2 dont. Please help me if you can.

Thanks
Dreadlord said:
on November 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm

Alphaskull, i have got the same problem, my game wants me to the directx 8.0 too, but i’ve even installed 9.0c! İf someone can help me, please help…

Thanks for your precious help…
Nithus said:
on November 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

have a big problem with HL2E1: I CAN’T SEE ALL THE OBJECTS IN THE GAME!!
please some1 help!
SpZ said:
on November 11th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

Alphaskull and Dreadlord:

This error means that your GRAPHIC CARD should support directx 8.0 technology, and have nothing to do with your installed directx 9 software. So this means that you should buy a new graphic card with greater directx support. Also I have heard, that if you set your compatibility-mode for the hl2.exe shortcut to windows 98/me, then you can overcome this problem. Try it out, and tell me if it works out for you guys. Best of luck!

SpZ
SpZ said:
on November 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am

BTW! I have now found a solution to the directX problem!! WORKS!!

See this link for information and directX patch:

mixman.res.lt/?status=articles&showcomments=4

Enjoy!!
gaynessssss said:
on November 19th, 2007 at 1:35 am

omfg im aggrivated! the game works perfectly and when u get to the lab lvl and everything loooks like crap!its not the graphics go bad but most things are highlighted with this white glowwy thingy. please tell me the solution!
Tomas Ansell said:
on December 6th, 2007 at 4:39 am

Hey I got HL2 Orange Box the other day and installed everything today and I started to play HL2 and just when youre getting into the menu it goes back to the desktop and says: Engine Error: Module Failed To Initalize, Please help!, I have never played the game before and would appreciate any help, or fixes for this issue.
Dcheez said:
on December 10th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

i tried the game on my box and first got the internal driver error in idirect3ddevice9::present()…i tried the ‘-window’ fix mentioned above and got “Model Models/items/grenadeAmmo.mdl not found and model/error.mdl couldn’t be loaded”..what the crap is up with this game? i run an AMD 3400+ with the 256meg GeForce6600 video card.
justin said:
on December 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

i downloaded garrys mod off of online and i played it for 3 days
it was pretty fun until the next day i tried playing it
it said engine error ” failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer
then it says The instruction at “0×241f94f7″ referenced memory at “0×0d94f41c”. The memory could not be “read”.

PLEASE HELP ME
i want to play hlf2 again!!!
Frustrated said:
on December 21st, 2007 at 4:02 am

I too am having issues with HL2, ep1 and ep2. I have an ATI 9600 Asus AGP card. When I first got HL2 2 years ago, it worked fine. But now when i have EP1 & 2, they always crash when i try to start the game. It loads to the option screen ok, but always crashes when a game is loaded/started. The strange thing is, I have exactly the same PC, motherboard, OS, video card, RAM as i did 2 years ago, so what the hell is going on??….and I am using an ATI card, the supposedly recommended card by Valve to play HL2. I have never ever had such issues with any game as I have had with HL2. I have even gone to the trouble of Buying a Nvidia card to eliminate a graphics card issue, Nup, no difference.
My message to the people at Valve/Steam is pull your fingers out and give us gamers some bloody solutions.!! We show faith by paying good money for the game, and Yes i did pay for it, (before all you “goody two shoe” anti piracy people flame me).
What must be done to get this damn frustrating game working!!???
whattapain said:
on December 25th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

Hello everyone. I recently got the half life Orange Box. I have installed the games and steam without any issues. As soon as i try to launch half life 2 it gets to the Valve screen and the credit screen afterwards, then it goes to the blurred cityscape screen, and it says loading at the bottom, a cursor appears in the centre and the loading dissapears and it just freezes there, i’ve left it for 5 mins and nothing, and the only way to get out is a complete reboot of my pc. My pc spec is:
p4 3ghz
xp
521 mb ram
Please could someone help me? This is soo frustrating
Joshua said:
on January 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm

i am having problems with valves new product The Orange Box. it says i am required to have Directx 8.0 but when i checked which Directx i have, i found that i already have Directx 10.0. I have tried downloading Directx 8.0 but the games still cease to work. can anyone help me with this problem?
Kemal said:
on January 22nd, 2008 at 5:37 am

“justin said:
on December 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

i downloaded garrys mod off of online and i played it for 3 days
it was pretty fun until the next day i tried playing it
it said engine error ” failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer
then it says The instruction at “0×241f94f7″ referenced memory at “0×0d94f41c”. The memory could not be “read”.

PLEASE HELP ME
i want to play hlf2 again!!! ”

Also my game gives this error. (HL2E2) But the numbers are different. The First one is 0×15808f3f and the second one is 0×0e57f3c0. The other statements are the same. Please help me…
nuzzz said:
on February 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

For people having :

“failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer”

and

“failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVetexBuffer”

I had these errors a lot with Half-life 2 Episode 1. It has something to do with the game not being able to find the models for the DirectX mode you’re using.

Some warez (provision) version do not include al the textures for DirectX mode 7 and 8 (I don’t what causes it with legal copies).

Using the command -dxlevel 90 forces the game to stick to the DirectX 9 textures. Also if you have legal version maybe playing arround with -dxlevel 80 or -dxlevel 70 might help.

Also using 800×600 mode seem to make it better.
I also replaced the half-life_2_episode_1\hl2\models folder with the hl2\models folder of Half-life 2

When I make a shortcut and add the following commands to it:

-steam -game episodic -console -dxlevel 90 -autoconfigure -width 800 -height 600

At first the game runs and gives an error after a few second (internal driver error Direct3DDevice9), but after I restarted the computer the game works great.

This is an combination of solutions I found in this forum and the internet, so thanks to the people who posted those.

I’m not an expert, but maybe it will help someone…. Good luck!!
Dreyas said:
on February 20th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

I recently bought Orange Box, and tried installing Half-Life 2. It works fine, but at a certain point on some chapters, like in the first chapter right after the guards are shooting you in the trainyard, my comp suddenly restarts. I try it again, and it always crashes at that exact same point.. Any one know what’s wrong?
bleam6 said:
on February 24th, 2008 at 2:12 am

TO all those having issues with valve and the half life 2 series, I know, I’m still having problems with it but getting there, i can play the game, perfectly, but if anything else or updates foir win gets installed then i have to literally remove my ATI drivers and install again, CATALYST 7.7 for those who have the game crash right after the valve intro, and to others where they ccant see everythin or purple walls , UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM is the ONLY option and there is NO hotfix VALVE, STEAM, or WINDOWS can make to give you that.
bleam6 said:
on February 24th, 2008 at 2:13 am

oh and if that helps and you can play the game dont even install windows updates or you’ll be sorry.
bleam6 said:
on February 24th, 2008 at 2:24 am

o hi guess i dhould mention i’m running on a radeon 9600, XP pro, 1.7, LCD, AMD but dont install ANYTHING after you get the game running
Pkzip said:
on March 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

There never was anything wrong with the cracked version of HL2.
Played back and forth several times over. Purchased it to play online and then all the crap started.
Moral of the story? Don’t buy Valve games. Just download cracked. Less grief and more play.

Regards
Pouria said:
on March 7th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

I have a Half-life 2 episode one installed on my pc. I had the same problem as lots of people mentioned above (I mean invisible objects). after reading this forum i concluded that with the help of replacing directx 9 files with directx 8’s (i’m using a geforce fx 5200) with a simple rename the problem would disapear. And i was approximaitely right! i renamed all mentioned files (of course with the help of a simple program) opened the game once more loaded my previous saved game. everything was right. but suddenly i was forced to leave the game with a runtime error!!!

Enyone have ideas?
Koko said:
on March 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am

i bought the orange box played thu HL2 and HL2EP1 then HL2EP2 TF2 AND Portal wouldnt play so I upgraded my old GeForce MX440 128MB with a new GeForce 6200a 256 MB plays all the games fine until I downloaded LostCoast AND IT DONT PLAY Another upgrade ALLREADY
zamut zoolog said:
on June 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 am

I play Half Life 2 on my laptop that has a GO 6600 card in it and i have no problems but , i also run linux and it runs well in wine. wine with linux graphics drivers kicks butt expecially windows butt. Wine for all your linux gaming needs especially half life 2 on steam. go linux to play half life 2 and you will play well on your go graphics cards all the way to the end with no problems ever at all never. Sack Bill Gates and his crappy windows crap.

Dont run Windows,, RUN LINUX NOW !!!!!! LINUX !!!!!!! LINUX !!!!!
ricdasic123 said:
on July 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am

thanxs dave that helped

if you cant find his comment…

if your hl2 doesnt open properly like it shows valve and half life bak ground but goes blac and crashes.

1.right click hl2 in your games section of steam
2.go to properties
3. click lauch options
4. and write ‘-Windowed’
5. open game up and shazam

hope it help (Y)

ric
RIcky said:
on July 7th, 2008 at 2:11 am

Help please.. Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and 2 worked on my computer and then after a virus devastated my computer, i wiped the hard drive and put XP back on it, i currently have SP 2 and DirectX9.0c and now i cant play any of them. I’ve tried almost everything and still no solution. what would happen is that Half-Life 2 would start up from Steam, and go to the main menu, I would click on New Game and select a level[1st level], and it would load up and then it would show “Half-Life 2″ and then my computer would restart. I dont know what is wrong. I have a 256mb ATI Radeon X1050 graphics card, and an AMD Athlon 2800+ Processor running at 2.1GHz with 1.5 GB RAM and a Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card. can somebody please help me?? It shouldnt be the graphics card because they have the most recent drivers and movies run fine and some games like Far Cry and FEAR work.
spike101 said:
on August 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

i require assistance.Heres the issue.

I got Half Life 2 in the Orange Box.So Team fortress 2 and Portal work fine.I load up Half Life 2 and reach the main menu.I click new game,and the first lvl(only one i have acess to)it starts loading,and when there is one bar left,my whole computer restarts.Any solutions?
Felipe said:
on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Gonfou!!!
You saved my life, dude!!!

I just had the same stupid problems with invisible objects and was starting to dispair in the lack of something to do. Tried out a lot of shit.

Actually, I didn’t yet tried what you said because I’m not at home right now, but since the situation is the same, I’m sure it’ll work.

Thanks again!
OutBr3ak said:
on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm

+mat_forcehardwaresync 0

put that in your launch options or start.bat or w/e u use. This will stop the runtime crashes

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