So, long story short, I uninstalled Steam from the C drive (93 GB ), cleaned up the registry, and reinstalled on the D drive (80 GB ). Half Life 2, EP1, EP2, and Portal all work fine.
Half Life…loads for a split second without the menu ever appearing (but you see the background image of Gordon with a shotgun) and then mysteriously crashes. Ditto for Blue Shift.
However…Opposing Force works perfectly and doesn’t crash.
Any idea what might be going on?
Try to add custom display settings like -width 640 -height 480 and -window in the command line (shortcut properties)
I doubt it’s the hard drive that’s to blame, anyway you can easily download a non-steam version off the internet.
I had the problem when I tried to use OpenGL
Vista + OpenGL = HL1 games crash, run with the -d3d launch option
Shortcut properties as in create a shortcut and the desktop and put those lines there?
This
unfortunately is not changing anything. Everything worked perfectly fine in the C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Steam folder, it’s now in D:\Games\Steam and not working for those 2 games (and any Half Life mod except Opposing Force).
But yes, I’m using Vista. Shoot me please.
works fine for me…
What is your Steam install directory?
G:\Games\Steam
I run steam from a tape drive.
Did you do anything differently than installing Steam to the G drive and then downloading the content via Steam?
maybe deleting clientregistry.blob helps?
when I got the new disk, I uninstalled steam, along with all of my games installed (I backed up my saves, but unfortunately forgot to back up some other stuff, like gibs). Then I just reinstalled steam and then all of the crap that I had before.
Nope, already tried that, but thanks. That was one of the first things I tried.
Yeah, I originally had saved my steamapps folder, but then after Half Life/Blue Shift kept crashing I just deleted it and tried to start completely fresh…didn’t help. Bleh.
Right click on the non-working games from the Steam menu and select Properties, Local Files tab, Verify Integrity button to check the game files. Can’t believe no-one’s suggested this yet.
If you’re convinced that there’s something wrong with that hard-drive, run scandisk or some other disk checking software too (under XP right-click the drive, select Properties, Tools tab, Error Checking button, for example).
Verifying was the first thing my Steam support ticket suggested I do. Didn’t help, unfortunately, but thank you.
I don’t know if there’s an issue with the hard drive, I doubt it. It’s only Half Life and Blue Shift (and Half Life mods like Someplace Else) that are messing up. Opposing Force works…anything on the Source engine works. Several other non-Steam programs work.
hmm. So it’s something with the hl1 version of goldsrc. try deleting whichever gfc has the engine in it and redownloading. Or maybe reinstall on the original drive to see if it works there?
what is this? this sounds like exactly the setup I have. I use Vista, I’ve installed Steam on my D:\ drive and I’ve had no problems. I specifically run it in OpenGL too. Same for all the mods I run as well. All my goldsource games run fine too.
I’m sorry I can’t help more with what your problem actually is, but I can tell you it’s not any of that stuff.
the only thing I can recommend is first, through steam, select your half life game and delete local content, then go into your steamapps folder and delete your half life folder completely, then re-download it. Then check to see if it will run at all before you add any mods at all.
I found that if I sometimes get a bad game download, it deals some file(dunno which one) that doesn’t get deleted when steam uninstalls the game.
It works if I switch it back to C. I’ve also completely uninstalled Steam and edited the registry to erase everything related to Valve before reinstalling.
Yeah, the fact that Opposing Force works is what is really weirding me out.
I don’t even currently have any mods, I removed em all when I tried to erase everything.
Well, I just deleted the local content again, erased the related files in the steamapps folder again, reinstalled those three games again…and same situation. Opposing Force works, Half Life and Blue Shift crash. Ugh.
It’s not as weird as you think, Op4 is a different engine.
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