So...Half-Life 2 does NOT work (P XXXVII)

[WickedAngel]

I decided to go back and give Half-Life 2 another chance after letting it sit since the launch (I wasn't very impressed when I first played it, but I wanted to go at it again).

Long story short; the game freezes my entire computer whenever the main loading screen comes up. I've tried deleting the .blob file, but that never worked anyways (For me). I redownloaded the installation files and got the exact same problem. You'd think they could make a working game, but alas...

It isn't the hardware. I rotate through several games regularly and none of them have this problem, so it isn't something like the PSU or videocard.

Any suggestions?

[DragonNOA1]

Delete the whole Steam folder/uninstall everything and then load it back up. If nothing else works maybe that will.

[slamgoku]

but remember last resort. oh and once u get into hl2 u will be impressed.

[magoo]

try playing in offline mode.

[zamardii]

I decided to go back and give Half-Life 2 another chance after letting it sit since the launch (I wasn't very impressed when I first played it, but I wanted to go at it again).

Long story short; the game freezes my entire computer whenever the main loading screen comes up. I've tried deleting the .blob file, but that never worked anyways (For me). I redownloaded the installation files and got the exact same problem. You'd think they could make a working game, but alas...

It isn't the hardware. I rotate through several games regularly and none of them have this problem, so it isn't something like the PSU or videocard.

Any suggestions?

Not impressed? Wow. You are hard to please. What don't you like about it??

[BBA]

Not impressed? Wow. You are hard to please. What don't you like about it??


I think you missed the point...he's not liking the fact it DOESNT WORK on his rig.


I had the same problem, and it ended up being I had an older pre-existing installation of the OpenAL EAX sound driver files. Uninstall any versions of OpenAL you have and reinstall HL2.

[I'm the Dude, man]

check www.steampowered.com forums for all the common troubleshooting. I had to defrag and move my page file to get HL2Dm to run without a memory could not be read error. Point is, everything has to be tip top in order on your rig to get the game going correctly.

[Troney1169]

Not to sure this will help but u can always give ur rig to me and buy a new one ;)