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| 503824 | 2006-12-02 21:19:00 | I'm being plagued by regular crashes when trying to play HL2 on my computer, which has specs more than the recommended requirements to play. The Steam Support is less than helpful and I've yet to find any other solutions when searching on the net and I've been updating drivers were possible. These are the major specs: Pentium 4 HT 3.06GHz 1GB DDR2 Ram nVidia GeForce 7300 LE XP Media Centre OS I'm wondering if there are issues with Media Centre as I am having the same problems on my notebook which also runs XP MCE and is more than capable of running HL2. My last computer wasn't half as powerful as my current ones, was running XP Home and played HL2 no problems. Anyone got some ideas? |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 503825 | 2006-12-02 21:42:00 | Someone told me vaguely that MCE was an addition to XP Professional and nothing more. Someone else then told me that they had actually taken some stuff out. I never cared for the matter so I don't know, but I also vaguely remember that someone else had similar problems with games and also ran MCE - and we just told him to change that. Go on, I dare you. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 503826 | 2006-12-03 06:24:00 | What sort of crashes exactly? It hangs? It exits to the desktop? What? Any other games giving you problems or only this one? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 503827 | 2006-12-03 06:53:00 | i dont even think hl2 supports mce. this is proly your problem | jesse_jax (9283) | ||
| 503828 | 2006-12-04 04:13:00 | It completely exits to the desktop and an alert window pops up with one a few different error messages, one of which says something about failing to lock an index buffer. The Steam Support says that this occurs when pressing Alt+Tab to go out of the game, but I'm not doing that and I'm typically running in offline mode and have all security software disabled. | av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 503829 | 2006-12-04 04:37:00 | zonelarm, especially pro minimizes games at start up, turn it off and exit it and see what happens then. | jesse_jax (9283) | ||
| 503830 | 2006-12-04 04:43:00 | Not sure about your card there OP. 73xxseries is budget, LE more so! Pls list the settings you are using......dx9, dx8, dx7?, res, AA, game graphic setting etc.... Steam have a pretty good database of issue fixes......is your system generally stable with other graphic/cpu stressful task's? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 503831 | 2006-12-04 20:19:00 | zonelarm, especially pro minimizes games at start up, turn it off and exit it and see what happens then. Really. Funny it doesn't with me. www.halflife2.net |
pctek (84) | ||
| 503832 | 2006-12-04 22:13:00 | I'm not sure where its crashing for you, but apparently there is a room/level which has a memory leak, and the only way to avoid the crash is to sprint through that area before yuor computer runs out of memory. i'mnot sure about that one thought, someone told me about it... | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 503833 | 2006-12-16 01:30:00 | SolMiester This is my version of DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) I play HL2 with the graphics settings that it recommends, typically mid level for everything. Can't give you exact settings because Steam is playing up at the moment so I can't play at all. I shut down all internet security programs before playing unless I'm playing online. Running the Steam diagnostic program results in passes for everything except for Apache servers. I run the Windows Task Manager and end all instances of Apache, but it is still begin detected in the diagnostic results, am I doing something wrong? On my notebook I'm runing the free version of ZoneAlarm which is being detected in the diagnostic results, can anyone tell me how to set it up correctly? I've allowed permissions for all instances of HL2 and Steam as far as I can tell. |
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