Comments on: Half-Life 2 Episode One - Troubleshooting, crashes; everything you need to know

By: Cold Canuck

Cold Canuck — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:41:17 +0000

Dom’s post abput editing the launch options worked for me:
-dxlevel 90 -sw -heapsize 1024000
these options got the game running where before it would simply freeze at the “Loading…” message.

Good luck, eh…

By: dk

dk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:32:53 +0000

i have a problem with half life 2 everytime i launch the game hl2.exe keeps popping up and i cant get in if anyone knows how to get round this it would be apreciated.

By: Paul Tarlevs

Paul Tarlevs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:49:24 +0000

Hello guys. I have a problem with my Half Life 2 Episode 1. See the thing is about it, is that I think that I don’t have all that props because in the citadel a lot of the objects are pink and black squares meaning I don’t have the props. I can upload a screen shot if you like. But please help!!!

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:54:46 +0000

Hello. I’m having an annoying hud problem with all my half life games from the orange box. The crosshair is a “q” and the other weapon silhouettes are greek letters. Everywhere else says is a font problem but i can’t fix it. i’m running vista 32bit.

By: mikeb17

mikeb17 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:59:16 +0000

sorry but forgot to mention it’s on windows vista as well.

By: mikeb17

mikeb17 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:58:20 +0000

I’m having trouble playing the original half life 2 demo on my laptop, it lags like a mofo during the whole ravenholm level

Specs: Gateway laptop, Intel(R)Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73ghz, 3 GB memory(RAM), 32 bit operating system, with a Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express chipset family.

Please don’t reply on here, message me via myspace @ http://www.myspace.com/mike040891, or at my e-mail @ http://www.yahoo.com/mikey040891@yahool.com.

By: Piccolo Phoenix

Piccolo Phoenix — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:23:30 +0000

I’ve got half life 2 episode 2 portal.The game crashes when i start the game and start the first round and when the portal opens.PLEASE HELP ME !!!

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:38:23 +0000

Hi all,

I’ve been tardy in getting in on the Episode One / Episode Two action, and was astonished to find the games unstable after all this time…

Despite everyone’s helpful advice, I couldn’t get past the first loading screen, with the game hanging on a black screen, with looping sound, after the valve video bit…

…until…

I bodged a simple solution together from a few other posts. I found that starting the game with the -sw command in launch options got the game loaded, albeit running in a window.

No one wants that, and it took my ruddy ages (and much messing around with the console etc) before I realised that you can then simply go into the options, video, and then swap to a full screen before starting / loading a game.

That, and a combination of the -setheap command, and forcing the game to run in direct x 9 has got me (touch wood) great performance on a modest PC setup.

If anyone wants to try it, my launch options thingy now reads:

-dxlevel 90 -sw -heapsize (half physical memory in KB - 256000 in my case)

Hope this helps someone anyways!

By: Clint

Clint — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:58:56 +0000

Ah. I’m have the same problem as Carmafrancesco. The exact error message and everything. I have just beaten HL2 and so i wanted more, and blam. Denied. I’ve deleted it and reinstalled it a few times and tried different things. Any ideas?

By: carmafrancesco

carmafrancesco — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:55:33 +0000

i can’t start half life 2: episode 1. I have buyed the orange box and i don’t have any problem with other games.
The game loads and i can see the image of the background of the main menu, the combine palace exploding, and suddently i recive this message:

HALF-LIFE2: hl2.exe - Errore di applicazione
L’istruzione “0×0f263e2c” ha fatto riferimento alla memoria “0×0d74a1a0″. La memoria non poteva essere read. Fare clic su Ok per terminare l’applicazione.
(The instruction “0×0f263e2c” was made reference to memory “0×0d74a1a0″. The memory couldn’t be in read status).

I run windows xp with service pack 2, directx 9c, as far as i can tell everything is updated.
I mount a nvidia 8800 GTS 320 mb and i have updated the drivers after the error but with no results. 2Gb ram intel core 2 @ 2.40 Ghz.

Please help me