hl2.exe has stopped working

Black Mesa Archive In-game Issues (Mod)
#1

I have Win7-64, Core i5 2500k @3.6ghz, 16gb ram, Geforce GTS 450, 1920x1280, nvidia driver version 306.23.

It has been years since I have run a valve game, but they ran fine. I do not currently have any other valve game / sdk installed, so I am unable to tell if these still work. I don’t feel like downloading a multi gigabyte game just to see if it runs.

I first installed SDK 2007 first. for some reason this caused the SDK 2006 to download too. These are the ONLY sdk’s installed.

I then downloaded BM and ran its installer. It installed into the correct folder (re: this post).

Inside steam, I pressed the ‘Play’ button and it began to launch, but showed a "hl2.exe has stopped working, please close the program’ error.

As per this post, I checked for a minidump but found that NO dump files are created. So hl2.exe isn’t actually launching far enough to create its dump file.

As per this thread i have tried the following start up options.

  • -safe
  • -window
  • -window -dxlevel 90
  • -window -dxlevel91
  • -dxlevel90
  • -fullscreen -width 1920 -height 1280
  • -window -width 800 -height 600
  • -safe -window

none of these options work.

I have checked these locations for steam dump files but found nothing at all (e.g. no files have been created or modified on todays date).

  • c:\program files(x86)\steam\dumps
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\sourcemods\BMS
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\frumbert\source sdk base 2007

obviously it’s working for other people, why not me?

#2

You haven’t tried to install the game & SDKs to a short file path?

eg. C:/BMS ?

In this FAQ, people have reported issues with the game complaining about non alphanumeric characters in the file-path. Especially on non-English operating systems.

Good luck.

Also read the full FAQ for more appropriate fixes. Sorry you didn’t get a reply sooner.

#3

Um, no. I installed it using the installer, as I noted. I also noted the FAQ’s and reference posts that I have already been through, which themselves tell me to use the correct installation path (which I have, since the installer did it), and to try all the settings I listed and to verify that the sdk is installed properly and so on. Everything, as far as I can tell, says “this should work”. I have a standard Win7 X64 English non unicode operating system.

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