Steam and HL2 / Mods

[FeFiDoh]

I am gonna go nuts in a minute im fed up of crappy steam now. Ive installed it and HL2 its downloaded some updates etc.. but when i goto launch HL2 or a source mod i see the taskbar icon for it then it just disappears again! no sign of it properly launching.

Any ideas why its doing it? Im starting to get really hacked off with it, WHY DID THEY INTRODUCE STEAM!!!!!!

 

[FeFiDoh]

yes all done and and i cant see why it wont do it!

 

[FeFiDoh]

ive figured it out, i was using the new nvidia drivers and ive reverted back to older ones seems to have worked