hl2.exe

Okay Im posting here about this since the general consensus a while back was that everyone basically only looks at the Cafeteria now-a-days.

Ever since I installed Windows 7 about 3 or so months ago and reinstalled what games and programs I currently play, Ive had one issue. The hl2.exe has stopped working. Now from what Ive read online this is apparently tied in with other steam games also, but Ive been fine running everything else. I actually haven't reinstalled TF2 or L4D or anything like that, but I heavily doubt Id have a problem playing it. Ive been playing some CODMW2 and have absolutely no issues playing it, where as I had issues with crashes when I was running Vista before hand with CODMW2.

Is there any solution, or a general error with this, or is it just one of those random things that will fix itself until maybe a reformat does the trick?

I have to point out that the game crashes when I start up the game, like right when its supposed to give you the HL2:DM menu, it crashes before any buttons come up. Also on a rare occasion HL2:DM will work, but then after I exit and try to restart HL2:DM it stops working again.

Ive tried dling new drivers. Actually I got the newest ones yesterday.
- tried deleting the cache and reinstalling.
- tried verifying and defragmenting the cache.
- I read somewhere that in game steam friends could cause issues so I turned that off, it worked for one start up and then it stopped working again after I closed the game and tried starting up again. (I think it was a random startup)

Thanks for any help you guys can offer. I'm going to try a few more things today, but unless this topic has been covered before and Ive forgotten, Im almost completely out of ideas...

Do you have an Nvidia card?
If so, clean out the driver and try an older driver and dl just the display driver, delete control panel.
See if that helps.
There is a problem with some Steam games and the newest Nvidia driver and control panel.
L4D2 would do the same thing.

If not Nvidia, idk.

there is something wonky with hl2.exe that gives me fits too. im running xp and my issues are a bit different than yours. i cant get hl2.exe to quti. i usually have to go into taskmanager and kill the process. and often when i crash, i cant get back into the game, i get a message that only one instance of hl2 can be run at a time... even though its not running because it crashed. so i have to kill the process then restart. its annoying.

The Argumentalizer wrote:Do you have an Nvidia card?
If so, clean out the driver and try an older driver and dl just the display driver, delete control panel.
See if that helps.
There is a problem with some Steam games and the newest Nvidia driver and control panel.
L4D2 would do the same thing.

If not Nvidia, idk.

I had this too, couldn't play HL2 single player. Every other source game still works, halflife is the only one that the driver wrecked

HL2DM doesn't work on win 7 for me, either. It crashes within 10-15 seconds of being loaded into a map no matter what. My solution was to simply dual boot win7 & xp since that should solve almost all my possible compatibility problems with any program. It's not hard to do, not an efficient use of hard drive space though. When I was able to play hl2dm on win7, it didn't feel the same anyway. It felt worse and I couldn't play as well.

Note: If anyone decides to dual boot 7 with xp, you must install xp first and then win7. If you install win 7 then xp, you won't get to choose which OS to start on boot.

Ive had the hl2.exe problem but its not as common as it was at first. Ill be damned if I can tell you what happened to change it.

Constipator, I have HL2DM running on Win 7 (both 32 and 64 bit) with no problems so thats weird.

Paradox wrote:Ive had the hl2.exe problem but its not as common as it was at first. Ill be damned if I can tell you what happened to change it.

Constipator, I have HL2DM running on Win 7 (both 32 and 64 bit) with no problems so thats weird.

Ditto

Another consideration: Some time back, Steam updated and now it updates or seems to every time Steam is started. Zone Alarm would ask for clearance every time i played, which is weird and annoying.

Maybe a .exe problem could be traced to your firewall.
Just a stab.

i had this problem with vista a while back and i just reinstalled steam and it worked maybe u can try that

Constipator wrote:HL2DM doesn't work on win 7 for me, either. It crashes within 10-15 seconds of being loaded into a map no matter what. My solution was to simply dual boot win7 & xp since that should solve almost all my possible compatibility problems with any program. It's not hard to do, not an efficient use of hard drive space though. When I was able to play hl2dm on win7, it didn't feel the same anyway. It felt worse and I couldn't play as well.

Note: If anyone decides to dual boot 7 with xp, you must install xp first and then win7. If you install win 7 then xp, you won't get to choose which OS to start on boot.

you just needed to run it in XP compatiblity mode.

Im not doing that either (XP compatibilty mode). It just works for me.

{EE}chEmicalbuRn wrote:

Constipator wrote:HL2DM doesn't work on win 7 for me, either. It crashes within 10-15 seconds of being loaded into a map no matter what. My solution was to simply dual boot win7 & xp since that should solve almost all my possible compatibility problems with any program. It's not hard to do, not an efficient use of hard drive space though. When I was able to play hl2dm on win7, it didn't feel the same anyway. It felt worse and I couldn't play as well.

Note: If anyone decides to dual boot 7 with xp, you must install xp first and then win7. If you install win 7 then xp, you won't get to choose which OS to start on boot.

you just needed to run it in XP compatiblity mode.

When I first installed win7 (32 bit) hl2dm worked fine. It didnt feel the same, though, felt way worse, so I just decided to dual boot. When I got the dual boot going, hl2dm all of a sudden work on dm lol. Out of perplexion, I investigated. Tried compatibility mode and all kinds of things, even downloaded the xp virtual machine from windows. None of that worked, so I just stopped caring