please save me

Jabberwocky · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject: please save me

i can't run HL.exe (half life or any any half life mods.). when i try, i get the error:

"Half-Life Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

it's the standard windows xp crash message.

i'm not asking for a fix, this is so generic there's no one fix for it. i've been googling and trying stuff for 2 hours, to no avail. reinstalling sounds/graphics drivers did nothing, reinstalling the game and steam did nothing, i dunno.

anyone have any other suggestions for some weird stuff i can try? maybe could someone with a working hl1 send me their hl1 directory? (excluding mods it's only 10megs, so if you copied everything out of the hl folder but the mod folders you could zip it and send over AIM).

thanks.

firefox_71 · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

are you running it on steam?
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Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

of course. it crashes when i try to play natural selection (a hl1 mod) even though i played it fine yesterday and have made no changes to my computer that i can think of since then.

Brutus · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:

You can reinstall everything. Severe? Yes, but easier than Googling for hours. Very Happy

Steam remembers your account just fine. I rebuilt my PC and had no issues with Steam.
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theboomboom · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:43 am Post subject:

The best advice I can give you is deleteing your hl folder and re downloading it.
Also, have you re-booted lately?
Do you have programs running in the background that could cause it to crash?
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SupaFly · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

system restore to yesterday
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Wang Chung · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

Supa, that won't work. It hasn't worked for a while apparently.

He's reinstalled it about sixty bajillion times. The only advice I have for him is reformat and reinstall windows .. of course, using my windows disk Very Happy

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Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

i already tried reinstalling steam, i removed everything hl related from my comp and reinstalled.

system restore is something i hadn't thought of, i'll give it a whirl. i was having some weird problems with hl2.exe but i fixed those by reinstalling my video drivers.

CountChocula · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

that's because HL is the devil! Evil or Very Mad

my theory is, if somethin doesn't work, turn off your computer and ignore it, it'll fix itself eventually... of course, that's why my computer screws up constantly... Rolling Eyes

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Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject:

system restore did nothing.

firefox_71 · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject:

it never does.

download a registry cleaner and get rid of all things HL and steam related. Other than that, format. Razz

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Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:

i reformatted... makes me mad that i took the easy way out but oh well, it worked, and i hadn't reformatted in over 3 months anyway.

SupaFly · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

lol, i got a year & 2 months on mine... but i know, the time is coming.... it aint gonna be pretty when i gotta reinstall... my windows drive is 40 gigs & FULL of apps.... most of which i may or may not have discs for... bleh
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Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

i reformat every 3-4 months usually. this time i did something smart- anything i needed to download (games, apps, drivers, etc), i put onto a secondary hard drive (only 3gb, holding music and downloads) so next time i reformat, it will be a lot less painful.

CountChocula · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

why the heck would you need to reformat, anyway? Confused

is it just maintenance or somethin?

^ obviously, has never reformatted... heck, barely ever does that "system defragmenting" that you're supposed to do every week
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