Downloaded The Orange Box off Steam and Half Life 2 doesn't work

Hi Peaks

I had the same problem.

Go into your games list inside Steam, find the HalfLife2 entry, then right-click and choose Properties.

Then click the Launch Options button and enter the following

-32bit

Then launch HalfLife2 and you should be fine.

You should also find you need to do the same with Lost Coast.

The 64-bit versions of those two are borked at the mo, and Valve are working on it.

Cheers, hope it helps
Dave

Glad that worked out for ya

Well, Valve are working on it, as I write no doubt.

They are constantly improving their games. There were no 64-bit versions of the games (or source engine) when the Orange Box was released. The only reason that the 64-bit versions now exist (and were working up until a patch a few weeks ago) is because Valve wanted to bring performance enhancements to those with 64-bit OS. Like when they added HDR to Counter Strike:Source. They didn't have to, we had already bought the game, but they just wanted to give us a better experience.

And don't worry, their track-record is second-to-one. It will be fixed, and the 32-bit versions are still outstanding.

Good luck with the games, they all absolutely rock. Especially Portal