Comments on: The Orange Box – Review and Troubleshooting

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:36:48 +0000

I was playing Orange Box 360, and i beat portal and tried to play an advanced map. it worked but i didnt have my portal gun. then i played it in standard. same thing. i tried chapters 6-10 and not only did i not have my portal gun, i began in an elevator and could not get out. i was short as possible, and could not uncrouch. i could walk and jump, but i couldnt get out. the opening of the elevator showed warped imaged of cupsidedown cielingless maps from afar and beyond was just blue warped sky. WTF!? no scratches on disc, not pirated. Got it last week new at GameStop.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:58:40 +0000

My problem is similar, but not exactly the same. My copy of HL2E2 begins to stutter whenever I look up at the sky (namely the big swirly cloud), but in most cases this can be avoided by just staring at the ground whenever it isn’t necessary for me to look forward. Lately though (I’m currently fighting the two hunters in “Riding Shotgun”, where a few others said they experienced a problem) the game has been crashing altogether and when it closes I get a message saying “Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered.” However, even though it says that it is recovered the game only shows a blank screen and loops about a seconds worth of sound.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:50:06 +0000

In episode 2, I have the same 1 frame per second stuttering issue, but it starts as soon as I get to the main menu. The valve and steam intro videos play fine as always, and then I get to the menu screen and everything is laggy, the audio is looping, and I’m unable to even start the game. I tried reinstalling, and it moved at maybe 3 frames per second instead of just one, but remained basically unplayable. All of the other orange box games work more or less perfectly, with the exception of some less severe stuttering in Portal, particularly the final boss. Also, I have 84 GB of RAM left on my laptop, so I seriously doubt it’s a space issue. Whenever I open a source game, it says my video card is unsupported, but once again, save for slight lag in portal and the expected lag associated with playing TF2 using wifi, everything works fine, and when I launch with -autoconfig, the game puts itself on all of the “high” graphical settings. So I ask, am I going to have to cough up 100 bucks (at the ABSOLUTE minimum) for a new video card just to play one game? Or is my problem something easier to solve?

By: jake

jake — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:25:53 +0000

HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I CANT GET ON PORTAL,TEAM FORTRESS OR HL2 EP2 IT JUST SAYS THE INSTRUSTION AT 0X………..SUMMIT
MEMORY CANNOT BE READ

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snigueEnemn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:49:43 +0000

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By: Phlip Monroe

Phlip Monroe — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:52:02 +0000

Wow, Valve blew this one hard. I have the loading to main menu then poof, straight to reboot. Had this problem with episode one and finally, after 7 days and 3 days waiting on a response from valve, got it running in dx7, which had amazingly good graphics considering. Well, finished that one and now i have the exact same problem with episode two, but this time the fix doesn’t work. Won’t load in either dx 7 or 8 or 9. Gonna try the windowed fix when i get home but i doubt it’ll work at which time i am going to figure i wasted 50 bux on 4 games of which i can play one after a week of trouble shooting and finished in 3 days. I am so ticked… WTH Valve??? Stick with an engine that works, we don’t need a new Crysis every 6 months. How many years did they use the Unreal engine? Geeeeeez. Guess I’ll report back if i figure anything out to help the rest of us that are stranded.

By: Pads

Pads — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:01 +0000

To get past the auto-cannon I had to cheat because of the jumping bug. In the console type sv_cheats 1 this will allow you to turn cheats on.
Then type in god, and you are invincible. Type in god again once past the autogun to turn off god mode, and if you want sv_cheats 0 to turn off cheats. You can only turn off god mode with cheats active strangely enough. I hope this helps.

By: Hugga

Hugga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:18:49 +0000

My Episode Two froze at the initial loading screen. If you have Zone Alarm installed, you must go to Program Control -> Programs and find all Steam and HL2.exe programs, left-click on the ?-signs and click allow.

You don’t have to disable Zone Alarm, just allow the game internet access.

By: BeerGuy

BeerGuy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:39:59 +0000

Jumping bug here too. Orange Box, EP2. I got through the crawl pipe by the auto-cannon and can get no further as the jumping puts my head in line of fire.

By: Fat Chance

Fat Chance — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:44:59 +0000

Whenever I start up ANY game in the orange box, it gets to the producers of the games then immediately quits out. A problem? Hell yeah I bought it and I can’t play it. HELP ME PLZ!!!!!