A Wierd Half-Life 2 problem.

Hey all,

I just installed Half-Life 2 because i'm very excited about my new ATi Radeon x800 XL 256MB =). But i'm very sad because i can't get HL2 to run. I remember playing the demo and thought i would finally install the full version.

My problem is, after i succesfuly install the game and click on the shortcut (or HL2.exe), and if i try to launch it from steam, <b>nothing</b> happens. I get an hourglass icon for a second, and then nothing. The only thing it does is opens HL2.exe in my "Processes" tab in task manager, and does nothing. I have installed it on my Pentium 4 laptop and the game ran fine.

Now, i think there are three posibilites to why my game won't start up on this particular PC:

1) It's because it has an AMD Athlon 64-bit processor.
2) The game doesn't like the version of Catalyst drivers i have.
3) HL2 is having some kind of conflict with my x800 for some reason...

This works on my Laptop, with a P4 2.8 Ghz w/ an ATi Radeon x600 PCIe but not my AMD Athlon 3400+ w/ a radeon x800xl.
Can you guys help me out? Thanks.

Have you registered your HL2 copy online, via Steam? If you do not have an internet connection the first time you want to play it, it won't work.


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Well, there are couple things you guys missed - This also happens on the DEMO which i made sure i used 100% how steam instructed, and when i click "Launch Game" or whatever after it's updated <b>through steam </b> it has the same affect. Nothing happens. I have also done the same with my full version -- i launched it through steam and nothing happened.

The fact that both the demo and full version won't work on my main PC, and the fact that I installed it exactly the same way on my laptop tells me that there is something up with my hardware...

Far Cry would not launch with a certain set of drivers i had (back with one of my nvidia cards), so that's one of the first things that came to mind -- a video card driver problem.

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<b>My Main PCs Specs</b>

AMD Athlon 3400+ 64-Bit processor
1GB of pc3200 RAM
ATi Radeon X800 XL Video Card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

I know that when I couldn't get my Half-Life 2 working I had to tweak some of the files.

Try this:

Go into Program Files>Valve>Steam>SteamApps>(userID folder) and locate the Half-Life 2 folder. In it, you will find a bin folder. Copy all the files from the bin folder and copy them into the main Half-Life 2 folder.

This worked for me. I also had to do this to get Day of Defeat Source to work for me.

Good luck.

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