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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
I have been having a problem with "Half Life 2 Engine" When ever I try to
play CS:S (Why is this crashing because of HL2 Engine?) I start playing for awile everything is perfect and then a random crash. Vista tries to find the problem and comes up with this: Problem caused by Half-Life 2 Game Engine This problem was caused by Half-Life 2 Game Engine, which was created by Valve Corporation. Microsoft has been unable to contact the manufacturer and has no further information available at this time. How can I fix this? It's very annoying to randomly crash every little bit. |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
CS:S is powered by the Half Life 2 Engine (Source Engine). If you can get in
and play for a while, I'd suspect over heating of either the CPU or the video card. Make sure you have plenty of ventilation and make sure all the dust is blown out of the heatsinks in your computer. Also, make sure your video drivers are up to date. And Steam automatically updates CS:S, so no worries there. -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer "Soulie" wrote in message ... I have been having a problem with "Half Life 2 Engine" When ever I try to play CS:S (Why is this crashing because of HL2 Engine?) I start playing for awile everything is perfect and then a random crash. Vista tries to find the problem and comes up with this: Problem caused by Half-Life 2 Game Engine This problem was caused by Half-Life 2 Game Engine, which was created by Valve Corporation. Microsoft has been unable to contact the manufacturer and has no further information available at this time. How can I fix this? It's very annoying to randomly crash every little bit. |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
That's also a problem that I have with HL2 on Vista as well, is your Vista
64 or 32 bit? I can also tell you that it is not caused by components overheating, as my system doesn't overheat. |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
"Carl" wrote in message ... That's also a problem that I have with HL2 on Vista as well, is your Vista 64 or 32 bit? I can also tell you that it is not caused by components overheating, as my system doesn't overheat. Bit a screwed logic there. You suffer from Source Engine crashes and your PC doesn't overheat, therefore the OP's isn't overheating. While you are both suffering Source Engine crashes there maybe two completely different reasons. To the OP make sure your running all the latest drivers for your hardware. Not the ones supplied by Windows Updates but the proper ones supplied by your hardware manufacturer. Make sure you have Vista updated. Download and run Memtest86, for at least five hours and see if you get any errors. A high proportion of random crashes can be attributed to bad memory. Trev |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
Hi! I'm getting the same problem. I have Vista Ultimate 32bits , and everytime i run HL2, it loads, i press new game, select the first part of game and then when loading is done and appears the "Half-Life 2" text, the game crashes, with the same error. But I only have this error with HL2, i can play CS:S. Drivers updated and the CPU and videocard don't overheat. What should I do? Sorry for my not good english :S -- fakeside |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
Guys.. I just bought a new PC... and I'm having CRASHES with HLČ... Running it on Windows Vista Ultimate x64... all the lastest drivers and NO overheating here... The problem is.. I can play for some time... but suddenly the game crashes... I have to restart cuz it crashes everything... blocking PC access... And some times, when I try to exit HLČ (without any craches 'till) it just stop reponding... I thought it was my PC.. but since u guys are having problems aswell... what do u think? Here it's: C2D E8400 (both at 3GHz and 3.6GHz - OC'd) G. Skill 4Gb DDR800 ECS 8800GTS 512 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Corsair 550W Power Supply WD 80Gb SATA HELP ME PLEASE!!!! -- luizmp |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
luizmp wrote in
: Guys.. I just bought a new PC... and I'm having CRASHES with HLČ... the game crashes... I have to restart cuz it crashes everything... blocking PC access... And some times, when I try to exit HLČ (without any craches 'till) it just stop reponding... C2D E8400 (both at 3GHz and 3.6GHz - OC'd) G. Skill 4Gb DDR800 ECS 8800GTS 512 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Corsair 550W Power Supply WD 80Gb SATA First off, new problem, start a new topic. Second, this "New" PC, was it a custom built PC, or is it a name brand like HP? 80Gig HD, no one uses those anymore, smallest now a days seems to be 250gig, so I'll guess custom built. Did whoever you bought it from guarantee the work? do extensive burn-in/stability testing? Well dispite no overheating your hardware may still be failing. defective hardware may behave like this, runs fine until put under stress, like when playing a game, then it eventually freaks and Windows shuts off to prevent further damage. Since you're overclocking, there's that "you may have damaged the CPU when trying to determine the maximum clock setting you can use" problem. I'm not going to accuse anyone of anything, but I've seen enough fried CPUs in my day to not dismiss it. If it's not that, then have you tried other games yet? See if you can reproduce the problem on something like Bioshock, or whatever other games you may have on your system (non steam) Updated the mobo bios? I suspect you've thought of all this already. I would look for a GOOD system stress test program, maybe something that runs outside of windows (The Geek Squad uses a program called PC-Check by Eurosoft along with Memtest that just about everyone uses.) stress the hell out of your system and see if any errors come up. Could just be half-life, but i've been playing half-life and portal on a core 2 quad with no issues so far. -- -A. |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
'Andy [YaYa Wrote: ;731222']luizmp wrote in : Guys.. I just bought a new PC... and I'm having CRASHES with HLČ... the game crashes... I have to restart cuz it crashes everything... blocking PC access... And some times, when I try to exit HLČ (without any craches 'till) it just stop reponding... C2D E8400 (both at 3GHz and 3.6GHz - OC'd) G. Skill 4Gb DDR800 ECS 8800GTS 512 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Corsair 550W Power Supply WD 80Gb SATA First off, new problem, start a new topic. Second, this "New" PC, was it a custom built PC, or is it a name brand like HP? 80Gig HD, no one uses those anymore, smallest now a days seems to be 250gig, so I'll guess custom built. Did whoever you bought it from guarantee the work? do extensive burn-in/stability testing? Well dispite no overheating your hardware may still be failing. defective hardware may behave like this, runs fine until put under stress, like when playing a game, then it eventually freaks and Windows shuts off to prevent further damage. Since you're overclocking, there's that "you may have damaged the CPU when trying to determine the maximum clock setting you can use" problem. I'm not going to accuse anyone of anything, but I've seen enough fried CPUs in my day to not dismiss it. If it's not that, then have you tried other games yet? See if you can reproduce the problem on something like Bioshock, or whatever other games you may have on your system (non steam) Updated the mobo bios? I suspect you've thought of all this already. I would look for a GOOD system stress test program, maybe something that runs outside of windows (The Geek Squad uses a program called PC-Check by Eurosoft along with Memtest that just about everyone uses.) stress the hell out of your system and see if any errors come up. Could just be half-life, but i've been playing half-life and portal on a core 2 quad with no issues so far. -- -A. Well, it's not exactly a "new" problem... it was a HL2 problem, so, no reason for posting again... right? :P It's a custom one... I'm using this 80GB HDD 'cuz it was a spare... and since the game is EXCLUSIVE for games.. there's no need for putting any of my 500GB HDD's... But I think I figureout the problem... the VGA was running OC'd by MISTAKE!! Can u believe this? I acted like a fool... sorry guys! -- luizmp |
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Half Life 2 Engine Problem
luizmp wrote in
: Could just be half-life, but i've been playing half-life and portal on a core 2 quad with no issues so far. -- -A. Well, it's not exactly a "new" problem... it was a HL2 problem, so, no reason for posting again... right? :P It's a custom one... I'm using this 80GB HDD 'cuz it was a spare... and since the game is EXCLUSIVE for games.. there's no need for putting any of my 500GB HDD's... But I think I figureout the problem... the VGA was running OC'd by MISTAKE!! Can u believe this? I acted like a fool... sorry guys! phleze, we still love ya. 80gigs for games? damn I have like a 640 gig raid-0 just for my game installs. -- -A. |