How to run HL2 in 32bit on 64bit OS...

[Lord_Grievous]

@DEATH eVADER

HL2 under Win7 65bit works fine for me, without typing anything in the launcher

You have installed Steam under the Program File(x86) folder have you?

Yes, it’s installed in the x86 folder.

@Shasta

Lol - are you still living in 2005? Join the rest of us in 2010. HL2 works just fine on Win 7. Any problems from 5 years ago have long since been addressed. TBH it’s always worked fine for most people anyway, right from its release.

Because the 64bit version was never really maintained, so any problems from 2005 are still there. Valve rushed the 64bit version of HL2 because of WinXP 64bit, it was all the rage back then to have 64bit on the box.

I know that not everyone experienced problems, but a lot of people did (and still do). Regardless of that, even if you don’t have any glitches it doesn’t really have any benefits. 64bit programmes are supposed to be a bit faster, and this one just doesn’t have that.

Valve themselves have admitted that the 64bit version has its problems.

Anyway, I’m gonna install from my HL2 CD so I guess it’ll be the 32bit version after all

[Madcat1030]

Mine worked fine on 64-bit, but the only real change I NOTICED was the particles when Alyx was being teleported. Their paths were much more circular than broken-up-straight-line-y.

Or you could just add -32bit to the launch options…

[Lord_Grievous]

Just installed it from the Orange Box DVD and it’s the 32bit version

[SoaringScout]

Doesn’t 7 have an option to run a program in XP mode, like Vista does?

[xalener]

@Lord Grievous

Really? If you go back to the reviews from 2005 you’ll find that most had some glitches. And if you Google Half-Life 2 64bit you get a ton of people with problems on Vista 64bit.

I’m sure it doesn’t affect everyone, but even so it doesn’t have any real benefit. HL2 64bit simply wasn’t very well made.

I’ll try your tip and use -32bit in the shortcut, that’s with a space I assume?

Reviews from 2005?

So all those problems are 5 year old problems that have probably been patched?

[Deathmonkey7]

@SoaringScout

Doesn’t 7 have an option to run a program in XP mode, like Vista does?

Only Windows 7 Ultimate.
Not that it’s badly needed, as most any program will run on it anyways.

[sersoft]

@FireTime

Default install, no launch options.

Same for me, always has been this way.

Also windows 7 can do a million times better job at acting like XP than vista ever did, I’m pretty sure that’s the feature Microsoft worked on most since Vista’s release.

[Lord_Grievous]

@xalener

Reviews from 2005?

So all those problems are 5 year old problems that have probably been patched?

Read my previous comment:

@Lord Grievous

Because the 64bit version was never really maintained, so any problems from 2005 are still there. Valve rushed the 64bit version of HL2 because of WinXP 64bit, it was all the rage back then to have 64bit on the box.

I know that not everyone experienced problems, but a lot of people did (and still do). Regardless of that, even if you don’t have any glitches it doesn’t really have any benefits. 64bit programmes are supposed to be a bit faster, and this one just doesn’t have that.

Valve themselves have admitted that the 64bit version has its problems.

[waqwarrior]

@Deathmonkey7

Only Windows 7 Ultimate.
Not that it’s badly needed, as most any program will run on it anyways.

… and Windows 7 Professional. I’ve got that and it has XP mode

[Level]

@DEATH eVADER

Win7 65bit

You have one more bit then the rest of us.

[FireTime]

The new Cyrix 65bit processors from a company you can trust

[eternalness]

Half-Life 2 defaults to the 64bit version for me and it works fines. Theres a little notification in the top left hand corner of the main menu that says 64bit mode. Im running W7 Ultimate 64bit and I have the steam version HL2 that was bought before the Orange Box was out.

[Deutscher_Scharfschu]

The only issues i have is when running two games at once, other than that, no issue.

[Lord_Grievous]

@eternalness

Half-Life 2 defaults to the 64bit version for me and it works fines. Theres a little notification in the top left hand corner of the main menu that says 64bit mode. Im running W7 Ultimate 64bit and I have the steam version HL2 that was bought before the Orange Box was out.

Strange, I’m running Win7 64bit too and when I installed HL2 from the Orange Box DVD it defaulted to 32bit.

[sersoft]

Okay I see it clearly now, unless you install it from the DVD or copy your steam folder from your old HDD (like me) it will install the 64bit version.

[Langenscheiss]

Runs fine for me on windows 7. Actually I don’t know what I would do without 64bit, since I use the cinematic mod, which absolutely requires you to have 64bit. Valve didn’t plan for such huge amounts of local space to be used, once it gathers too much data from the hard drive, the engine crashes. With 64bit, enough space in the ram can be addressed which prevents the system from crashes.