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Half-Life 2 won't run
I recently received The Orange Box, and wish to play Half-Life 2. I am running a Vista Home Premium x64 machine updated to SP1. However, whenever I run Half-Life 2, either from within Steam or from a shortcut, Half-Life 2 starts, adjusts the screen resolution, and freezes on a black screen with a frozen Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. I have added "-32bit" to the shortcut line and have set the program to run in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode. This fix has made Portal run fine, so I don't know why it won't work for Half-Life 2. I have not yet attempted to run Episode 1, Episode 2, or Team Fortress 2, so I don't know if they work. -- Alex S ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alex S's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/167420.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...es/1286300.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Half-Life 2 won't run
With Vista, and some older video drivers, running Half Life2 in a window
solves the problem. You may have to use task manager and or the esc key to switch from a black screen to a usable one, in order to make an in program setting to run in a window. Setting Half Life to an SVGA resolution initially may make it easier to set in game options (Windowed) before you go for the higher resolutions that make game play more interesting. |
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Half-Life 2 won't run
The problem is that HL2 won't respond to anything, but it isn't labeled by Windows as "Not Responding". I can't access any settings to change to windowed mode, and I don't know how to use Task Manager to change a full-screen program to windowed. Task manager provides "Minimize" and "Maximize", neither of which have any effect on HL2. Portal, which I believe is the same "engine" as HL2, runs perfectly fine as full-screen. -- Alex S ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alex S's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/167420.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...es/1286300.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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