anyone else having crash problems with HL2 Episode 1?

whats yer hardware there, klein?

I haven't had this problem with anything steam, but I did have it (and still do, occasionally) with doom 3 tech. Quake 4 liked to lock up like you describe, and I would have to ctrl-alt-delete to task manager and wait about 30 seconds for it to respond again, at which point it took about 5 minutes to actually get it to kill the game. A normal reboot would temporarily fix the problem, but the next forceware drivers fixed this problem (doom 3 editor crashed on start up a few days ago, but i think that was a fluke).

Id say see if it happens on other source tech, and then either try a video card driver update or rollback.

Yeah must be a driver issues, do you have the latest DirectX and video card drivers?

i updated my ATI drivers right before playing it the first time and haven't had too many issues.

Once in a while Ep1 will freeze on a level transition and I'm forced to do a hard reboot. Otherwise, it seems to run fine.

I did update my drivers when Steam invited me to do so. The crashes I did have were always due to Steam recommending settings way too high for my comp (as always), so it kept freezing during loading. Once I downgraded the settings a bit, it was as smooth as can be

Whats your hardware?

I've experienced this bug with both sin episodes and hl2 ep1. I figured it had to do with me overclocking my Geforce card with EXPERTool!

I just had to run the "safe" settings, and it worked fine through the rest of the game..

alyx collapses at the end behind a glass window and it ends. btw thats a spoiler

I haven't played it yet, but even I know for sure it doesn't end like that :\

Why do you lie so curman?

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i updated my ATI drivers right before playing it the first time and haven't had too many issues.Once in a while Ep1 will freeze on a level transition and I'm forced to do a hard reboot. Otherwise, it seems to run fine.

Hehe, I updated my ATI drivers about a week ago and then it took me 2 hours to free my computer from the evil which is ATI's interface. I miss the days of non-memory hog software.

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Hehe, I updated my ATI drivers about a week ago and then it took me 2 hours to free my computer from the evil which is ATI's interface. I miss the days of non-memory hog software.

Uh...yeah forgot to mention that. What a pain in the ass, but HL2 ep1 runs great. I thought I had done the "driver only" option, too...

i didn't have it crash once when I played it, but now going back with commentary on it's crashing all the time. so far 3 times in the past level. gotta take a break now. it's too annoying

I had a problem like this with Lost Coast and Militia when they were released. I thought it may have been the HDR but my friends not as good computer was handling it fine. . . I think it probably was some driver issue or something because now I can play both Lost Coast and Militia without crashes.