Comments on: The Orange Box - Review and Troubleshooting

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!!!!!

By: Undertaker

Undertaker — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:17:32 +0000

I have the same jumping bug.Any solution?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:28:24 +0000

Alright, so, my dad got Orange Box and we can’t play EP2. Stays on loading, error message pops up crashes to desktop. Before we updated everything it was just one type memory could not be read problem. Then the numbers changed, and I just tried the -sw to launch options and it’s given a different reference number.

So I’m getting various references numbers and am not being able to get passed the loading screen.

Anyone else with this / been able to fix this?

By: dSp

dSp — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:18 +0000

Hi there, I solve my “crashes while loading” settings the “Catalyst AI” on “Advanced” in the Catalyst Control Panel.
Unfortunately I still have the “jump bug” in HL2:EP2.
Any ideas? Are there any downloadable patches (I have the Orange Box)?

By: Andi

Andi — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:28:48 +0000

Jumping Bug here as well. No solution yet, but quite annoying. Only Epsiode 2 is suffering from this. Every other game using source works fine.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:20:55 +0000

I had the same issue with HL2:EP2. It would hang at the loading screen forever and I’d have to reboot. While I was troubleshooting the problem, I realized my firewall (ZoneAlarm) was popping up to see whether or not I wanted to authorize steam. I never saw the window because the game window would stay at the front of my screen. If anyone is having the loading screen problem, try disabling your firewall to see if that works.