Half Life 2 crashes

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Gaming
I just bought the game, and after a lengthy install and now knowing why everyone hates Steam.... I finally get to play.

Or so I thought.

The first crash occured when the guy is talking at the beginning, it just freezes my whole system, I can't even use my reset button, I have to hold down my Power Button until the whole system shutsdown.

The second time, was when I was on the train, I was moving around it, I wasn't on the train for more than a minute when it crashed again. Had to press and hold my power button once again.

I am furious, any ideas?

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I don't think steam has anything to do with it - you got the game installed if you can start playing it.....

    First of all, did you check the obvious stuff, like memory, video card, temps, voltages?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I just played Unreal Tournament 2004 for like 20 minutes or something, no problems at all. Temps all look fine as well. No other games have been crashing on me lately.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Latest video drivers?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I forgot what drivers I had installed, but according to DXDIAG I have 6497? I know I downloaded these after HL2 came out. I'll double check and see if anything newer is out yet.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    So yeah I just upgraded my drivers, did the whole uninstall thing and reinstalled the latest drivers.

    Nothing. This time I got a bit further, but it still crashed hard again. It seemms like a hardware thing, like something is overheating, but I honestly can't tell. It works fine in everything else i have. EQ2 ran fine, Unrel Tournament 2k4... II don't get it.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    You doing any overclocking? I've noticed that todays games are VERY OC sensitive. Doom3 was the worst, but Battle for Middle Earth is the same way, as was HL2. I just had to drop my overclocking a bit to get things to run fine. I'm also at a disadvantage because I'm running unlocked pipelines on my 6800, which seems to be the root of the troubles, but it is faster for me in the end.

    edit// I mean vid card OCing.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Nothing OC'd appearently, I guess I put everything back to normal a couple months back.

    I ran 3D Mark 05 for a good 10 minutes, nothing crashed. Plus that was minus my side case fan that covers my PCI slots as well as my AGP.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Might be a sound issue. HL2 is intensive on the sound hardware.

    Check your soundcard drivers, and check the steam forums for issues with that soundcard. Run dxdiag to see if there are any sound issues.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I have AC'97, DXDIAG says no problems found. I'll try to see about getting a version I saw mentioned recently on the news forum here.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Updated to the latest drivers and and now it's a whole new set of problems. The first crash was an error message, I read it but can't remember what it was anymore. The second crash was my monitor acted like it got disconnected, and my computer rebooted itself.

    Both times occured before and during the talking guy before you even get to the train.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited January 2005
    Try swapping around the memory, most of those errors have been fixed by doing that.

    If you have anything forcing refresh rates disable them.

    Downloaded RivaTuner disabled AGP fast writes and AGP Sideband addressing the problem of it freezing up is gone


    http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=351


    http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=278&p_created=1100821608&p_sid=a*XRlUuh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yNjcmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=

    Also if you have a realtek ac 97 card use only theese drivers with HL2

    ben.shadow-phoenix.com/3_63_drivers.zip
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited January 2005
    If the computer is crashing and unable to recover even without help from the reset button, then I really doubt the game (or any software) has anything to do with your problem. You might want to double check that your reset button is even plugged into the mobo correctly, cause as far as I know, no software, or even BIOS can override it's function.

    The error in the game was prolly that "Error at memory address XXXXXXXXX" error a lot of people have been getting. This is a known problem in the game and we're all just going to have to wait for a patch to get it fixed.

    What kind of power supply are you using? Video card? Soundcard?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    So this time I shutdown Trillian, I installed the latest 4n1's, I forgot whatelse I did. But I got OUTSIDE! I was running around trying to figure out where I go next, when it crashed again. But this time it was different. The game crashed, and I did the CTRL+ALT+DEL and while it didn't show up, I know it was hidden becuase the mouse cursor would change to arrows showing I hit the side of some kind of hidden menu. Eventually the game quit itself or something and here I am, back without a restart.

    My system is sound, I know it is. 520W PSU, Athlon64 3000+, MSI RadeonXT/Pro, 1.5GB of PC3200 DDR.

    I am going to up the voltage on my memory and whatever else I can think of in the BIOS, not too high of course, but enough to possibly help. Or lower if I think it may be too high. Been a while since I needed to go into a BIOS.

    Ohh and, absolutly nothing is OC'd, and fastwrites are off as they should be.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    This is a hardware problem, for sure.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    So why don't I see any of this anywhere else in any other game? EQ2 is far more intensive than HL2... yet I didn't crash in that. Unreal Tournament 2k4 doesn't crash ever. Ran 3D Mark looping for quite a while too while I watched a movie, nothing.

    Perhaps a memtest? Should I use memtest or that msn version? What should I use to test my system further?
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited January 2005
    Did you try everything in my sig including the links?
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited January 2005
    What brand PSU are you using?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    TTGI PSU

    What links Ben?
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited January 2005
    http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=351

    http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=278&p_created=1100821608&p_sid=a*XRlUuh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yNjcmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I read through your post ben, I never did the sideband address thing, if that doesn't work, I'll try the 3.63's for my audio.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    OK now it seems that the only problems I am having are those "could not be read" memory issues. But they happen pretty much guaranteed within 5 minutes of playing. This last time I played for no more than 1 minute talking the the girl when it crashed.

    But, at least it's not freezing up my system any longer. Glad to know it's not a hardware issue, I couldn't afford anymore parts.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I pulled a stick of RAM, now it runs fine.

    Of course this doesn't tell me it's my problem, becuase every other game I own runs fine with the 3 sticks. I still say it's the fault of Valve becuase of that.

    And also, now that it runs, it seems to be one of those games that tends to make me very nausious when I play. I felt like I was going to throw up.... :rolleyes: Haven't had a game do this to me since morrowind. One problem after another... :wtf:
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited January 2005
    Well games don't usually adress specific pieces of hardware they go through the API's and the functions the API's expose to the game, have veeery limited access to the hardware level. so I would say either something is wrong with the ram and your other games are just not demandin enough to cause problems. Or half life 2 hates you.
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