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"Paul Catley" <paul.notreallymyaddress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Don Moore wrote:
> > Hi, Half Life 2 keeps crashing in point assertion when I leave
> > playground and go into the restroom. Is there some kind of patch or
> > something to fix this? I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling
>
> Does it go to the "Loading..." message when you move down the corridor
(don't
> know about any restroom), and then just drop to the main menu? I had this
> problem, but a reinstallation fixed it... eventually. When I reinstalled
from
> the retail DVD, Steam spent around 6 hours downloading additional material
on a
> 64k dial-up connection. I have no idea what it was downloading (it didn't
tell
> me), but I can only think that it had identified a corrupt .GCF datafile
in the
> installation and downloaded a new copy of it (this was before any
patches). It
> worked fine after that.
>
> Incidentally, if this happens to you, Steam's initial estimates of the
time
> remaining are way out. It suggested over 13 hours initially (I wish it
had said
> how much data it was downloading, so I could estimate the time myself).
Let it
> run its course, though if you have to disconnect, it will resume without
any
> problem.
>
> --
> Paul
Yeah it goes to loading and goes out to main menu. I thought this was a
bug. I tried skipping to various other places in the game by typing them
into the menu, but all other kinds of errors started happening like objects
showing on the screen as big red letter 'ERROR' , and enemies just standing
around and not fighting back. How did you get a hold of Steam to get the
new files? I coudn't find an email or a 1-800 number anywhere. Thanks for
responding!
And neither do I. We get the senior discount see 
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