HL2 crashes

[spikespiegel721]

i am having problems starting hl2 i get to past the picture of the guy with a valve for an eye and then too the loading scrn and then it just brings back to the desktop

Here are my specs they're kind of old but bear with me
AMD Athllon 64 3200
Asus A8n-Sli
Geforce MX4000
an ide hard drive
256mb pc2700

i am going to upgrade my memory to a gig of pc3200 sometime soon
but my specs do match the minimum requirements

i also tried installing these drivers because they were supposed to solve the problem

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_78.05.html

im not sure which version of direct x i have i think i have directX 9 but how can i check

your help will be greatly aprecieted

[draco7891]

HL2 should have installed the proper DirectX version when you installed it. To check the version, open a run command (from the start menu), and type in "dxdiag", less the quotes. Your version should be the last item listed on the first page.

Try this also: Make a shortcut to the game (or just reuse the one the installer should have put on your desktop), and right-click it. Go down to Properties. In the target window, at the very end of the line (after the quotes and all, just hit the "end" key on your keyboard to head there), add in "-console", again less the quotes, hit Apply, and then OK. Run the game from the shortcut and see if it loads.

What the switch does is set the game to allow the console, but it has the added side effect of keeping it from loading the game engine for the load screen. If it does manage to load, the console can be opened and closed by pressing the "~" key, which is to the left of the 1 key on US keyboards.

Draco

[spikespiegel721]

i do have direct x 9 but i tried what you said by adding the -console but it does the same thing that i had before do you think it could be a hardware problem?

[spikespiegel721]

its still not workin but thanx anyway draco. Does anyone have any other suggestions

[satansilent]

you better update your driver too 84.20 for downloading go to guru3d.com although mx series not good card for playing game

[spikespiegel721]

i just got a gig of kingston hyperx pc3200 today and it still doesn't work can someone offer some advice i tried this

Agen_Terminator

12-28-2004, 03:04 PM

Ok everyone, I have the solution for the load failure with no error. There is in fact an error and it has to do with memory.

Here is the fix:

First location:

Right click your Half Life 2 icon on your desktop (the one you would normally double-click to launch the game). Then click Properties. Click the Shortcut Tab. In the line labeled Target, you will see something like this, depending on where you put the program when you installed it:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 22

Copy and paste the following AFTER the above line:

+mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1

Be sure there is a space between -applaunch 22 and +mat

Click save and you are ready to go.

Second location:

From the Steam Play Games Menu, right click on Half Life 2. Choose Properties, then click Launch Options. Paste the following in the box.

+mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1

Click Ok and you are ready to go.

but that still didn't work could you help