AntiCitizen One - missing wood_board01a.mdl ?

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Hello Everyone.

A few months back I managed to play HL2 all the way through until the end
without any problems. Suddenly now, as I manage to fight the attack where
I have to watch Alyx's back while she cracks into a generator on the
AntiCitizen One chapter, the game crashes and exits when I push the iron
gate in the tunnel under the broken bridge.

The error is something about some wood_board01a.mdl not being found and
some dll not being loaded.
Has anyone else come across this and would know what I need to do?
Thanks.

Rico.

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"Shawk" <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
news:1116860481.4893.0@spandrell.news.uk.clara.net...
> Rico wrote:
> > Hello Everyone.
> >
> > A few months back I managed to play HL2 all the way through until the
end
> > without any problems. Suddenly now, as I manage to fight the attack
where
> > I have to watch Alyx's back while she cracks into a generator on the
> > AntiCitizen One chapter, the game crashes and exits when I push the iron
> > gate in the tunnel under the broken bridge.
> >
> > The error is something about some wood_board01a.mdl not being found and
> > some dll not being loaded.
> > Has anyone else come across this and would know what I need to do?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Rico.
>
> I dont know the address so the slightly longer way of doing this is .....
>
> When you sign in to Steam go to News, then Support then search using the
> word 'validate'. That will take you to a link where you can validate
> your files and any that are corrupted (which it sounds like a couple of
> yours are) will be automagically downloaded and replaced.


http://steampowered.custhelp.com/c [...] _topview=1

thats the link to the web page

HTH

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On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:38:41 +0930, GFree wrote:
> Barry wrote:
>> "Shawk" <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
>>>I dont know the address so the slightly longer way of doing this is
>>>.....
>>>
>>>When you sign in to Steam go to News, then Support then search using
>>>the word 'validate'. That will take you to a link where you can
>>>validate your files and any that are corrupted (which it sounds like a
>>>couple of yours are) will be automagically downloaded and replaced.
>>
>> http://steampowered.custhelp.com/c [...] _topview=1
>> thats the link to the web page
>> HTH

> Heh.
>
> I had exactly the same problem. The files were NOT corrupted.
>
> The solution: run the game again. I managed to continue and the error
> hasn't appeared since. I suspect an update may have screwed up the code
> somewhere.

Thanks Guys. Somehow by merely restarting Steam an update was finally
triggered. I don't know why it wasn't over the past few days that I had
switched my PC on and off quite a few times.
The problem must have been a previous update going haywire. Now, at last,
it's working again. Thanks.

Rico.