Half-life 2 not loading anymore

Craig321 · 28 Nov 2008 at 17:09

I'm not sure when or why it stopped loading, no hardware or software has changed on my PC.

The loading bar gets about 4 blocks from the end, then just stops

I've tried deleting all Half-life 2 content and reinstalling it with no luck (that includes removing all the caches and the ClientRegistry.blob file)

HL2.exe and Steam are allowed in my firewall.

I've also tried multiple different save games, they all do the same thing so they're not corrupt.

CSS works perfectly.

Any ideas on a fix?

Thanks,
Craig.

Crysalis · 28 Nov 2008 at 17:40

Going to guess you on Vista 64 as had same problem recently myself.
Go into Steam, clcik Half Life 2, click properties at the bottom.
Set Launch Options and enter -32bit

Hope that works

Craig321 · 28 Nov 2008 at 19:44

Any idea where the save games need to be placed when using the 32-bit client?

Crysalis · 28 Nov 2008 at 20:10

D:\Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\half-life 2\hl2\SAVE

Seems to be where mine are, wasn't far through when happened to me, and had deleted my saved games trying to fix problem.

Craig321 · 28 Nov 2008 at 20:13

Ah. The 32-bit client isn't picking up my save games

Can't find anywhere other than the default directory to put them.

Craig321 · 2 Dec 2008 at 02:08

Bump - Half-life 2 still not loading

It was loading before, not changed anything on the system :/

QPRHOOPS81 · 2 Dec 2008 at 09:14

ive got the same issue. Only started when i updated my nvidia drivers. Portal etc still work just hl2 and CSS that wont.

Craig321 · 2 Dec 2008 at 10:49

I haven't updated my graphic drivers or anything, not sure why or when the problem started

bledd · 2 Dec 2008 at 11:06

get steam to verify the game cache, it's right click , properties, something...

Craig321 · 2 Dec 2008 at 11:07

Done that

Even reinstalled Half-life 2.

Meh I hope I'm not gonna have to delete my entire Steam folder to get it sorted, that'd just be a pain - would take ages to update, only running 300Kbps here :/

bledd · 2 Dec 2008 at 11:12

tried steam forums?
steam client update?

posisbly update sound/gfx/chipset drivers (heavy i know, but better than full steam reinstall)

Craig321 · 2 Dec 2008 at 11:18

A 12.49MB steam client update was released yesterday, I'll download that now. Hopefully it'll fix the problem.

Also, as far as I know my sound/graphics/chipset are all up to date, I only updated them a few weeks ago. Half-life 2 has been working perfectly since those updates, it only stopped working randomly recently

[Edit]
Nope, update didn't help.

FlukeRogi · 2 Dec 2008 at 12:15

This worked for me when I had a similar problem once:

http://supportwiki.steampowered.com/wiki/ClientRegistry.blob

Also, check that you don't have multiple HL2.exe files listed in your firewall (can happen in ZoneAlarm). Could be that an updated version doesn't have access.