StickyMicky

I am not much of a PC gamer nowadays, but i figured a few of you lot might find this intresting

The Orange Box, from "STEAM" is on sale

£5.66

that is one of the biggest bargins i have ever seen

i had this for the 360 but could never really get into it so traded it in while it was still worth something, i may pick this up myself as its so dam cheap!

hux309

Yup got this today, it's an absolute bargain.

Not to mention someone else got hl2 and ep1 as a freebie.

StickyMicky

Offer runs out today folks

i actually bought it, but have not installed it all yet, not had the time

StickyMicky

Remind me again why PC gaming is such good fun

Half Life 2 Lost Coast = runs without an issue
Half Life 2 = will not run, gets to the title screen then hangs, blue screen and then reboots


updated drivers, no effect, what a pile of ***** bollocks

installing team fortress 2 now, to see if that will play

chrisUK300

iTrader: (10)

Similar problem for me, they all work apart from Half Life 2

Team Fortress 2 is good fun tho

StickyMicky

ok so far


Half Life 2 = wont run
Half Life 2 Lost Coast = runs without issue
Half Life 2 ep 1 = runs to title screen and then hangs
Portal = runs without issue
Team Fortress 2 = seams to run but hangs when connecting to a server "send client info" or something
Half Life 2 ep2 = not bothered installing it yet as i suspect it wont feckin work

PC gaming sucks **** biscuits!

bob269

Lost Coast was an independant 1 level demo show casing the engines new lighting and dynamics where as ep1 & 2 are integral to the game so i suspect if HL2 is having issues then so will these, can't say as i've ever had issues playing from all those years back when it first came out up until the latest episode. It was one of the few games which actually ran like a dream on my piece of crap pc, hats off to valve for actually spending time optimising their engine.

Is it anything to do with it trying to check authenticity from steam when you try to play the game ? (firewall issue, virus checker?)

StickyMicky

Just installed Ep2 and its playing without an issue

also managed to get into a game of TF2 by waiting around 5 mins for it to "send client info"

now i just need to work on Ep1 and the basic HL2

StickyMicky

just tried HL2 again

loaded up and after you select "new game" it goes to start the game, and the computer then resets, you then have the disk checking stuff, and when windows finally loads back up, it tells me that its recovered from a serious error

things i have tried so far

updated 9700pro ATI drivers (latest ones installed)
updated directx files
swearing at it

wondering if the steam downloads of hl2 and ep1 were somehow corrupt ?