Graceful "LOADING..." crash recovery

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"Cyde Weys" <cyde@umd.edu> wrote in message
news:Xns967BE0654A9202galopagosterrapincy@199.45.49.11...
> This is the second time now I've gotten this particular bug and it's a
> really nasty one. Occassionally on the "LOADING..." screen (after
> attempting to connect to a multiplayer game but before I actually get
> connected), the progress bar just freezes up. The Cancel button doesn't
> do
> anything. I can't wait it out either. The mouse moves around just fine
> and when I press Ctrl-Alt-Del I can see the "working in background"
> hourglass mouse cursor, but nothing comes of it. Similarly Alt-Tab is
> ineffective. So I'm left with having to do a cold reboot. This is really
> frustrating because the system is clearly responsive (the mouse cursor
> moves around normally), but HL2 has such a tight lock on my system that
> even Ctrl-Alt-Del won't interrupt it. What do you do in this kind of
> circumstance?

Not a solution, I'm afraid - just to say that this has happened to me a
couple of times too. I can't remember why, but I seem to recall that I've
usually felt it was my fault each time. Anyway, I end up doing the same
thing - pressing the reset button...