Jueves 18 de Noviembre del 2004 : Half-life 2 just crashes.
I purchased the silver package of Half-life 2 via steam.It finished preloading yesterday night after a day downloading, and as soon as I could I hit the play button only for it to crash.
Restarted Steam to try again but the half life 2 package was at 45%, maybe a file got corrupted or erased and continued downloading until this morning.
While having breakfast, I hit the play button again and Half life 2 began its slow loading and crashed again at itīs menu screen showing a "memory could not be read" dialog. Tried again and failed the same, retried and refailed, and one more time.
After that I visited the steam forums to find out that there where several posts relating to the same problem. Some posible fixes included disabling soundīs directx acceleration or disabling it at all, change launch parameters, reinstal windows and half life 2 and such. But there where many posts about the same problem.
I tried the sound fixes, assured that I had lates drivers for all devices, disabled not needed programs and proceses, and many things.
The game now starts and crashes about 5 minuts I hit new game.
This sux
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