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GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 12-04-2004, 02:43 PM

Oi! Oi! Oi! I need help!!!!!!!!

i was playing Half Life 2, and at one point i got stuck, and really bored. I decided to see how well my computer would be able to handle all the settings on max. The game crashed and now i can't even get back in considering the main menu uses the game engine to produce the background!!

oh, and another thing, sometimes my computer will spontaniously reset while playing CSsource.. any help? I have an Athlon XP 2500+, i think it may be overheating...

please?

Null · 12-04-2004, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GiMpY-wAnNaBe

Oi! Oi! Oi! I need help!!!!!!!!

i was playing Half Life 2, and at one point i got stuck, and really bored. I decided to see how well my computer would be able to handle all the settings on max. The game crashed and now i can't even get back in considering the main menu uses the game engine to produce the background!!

oh, and another thing, sometimes my computer will spontaniously reset while playing CSsource.. any help? I have an Athlon XP 2500+, i think it may be overheating...

please?

goto your settings folder and delete the config.
usually c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\[user-name]\half-life 2\hl2\cfg
delete config.cfg
start the game. - (you'll have to reset all your controls and whatnot tho)

2nd question....

Whats your powersupply? how much was it? brand? most importantly whats the wattage?

if you think its overheating tho, try taking the side of the case off so air can get into it. maybe point a house fan in its direction then see if it turns off on you like that.

Jonbo298 · 12-04-2004, 06:51 PM

If your comfortable, open the side of the case and check for dust underneath the CPU fan. Sometimes, if you get too much dust under the CPU fan, it can really start to heat up the CPU. Heck, recently I noticed my CPU getting hotter and hotter so I opened the case, removed fan, lots of dust. Got rid of it off the heatsink and dropped my cpu temp from around 50c to around 40-42c now. A pretty large drop.

And for the HL2 thing, go to the properties for HL2 (in Steam window thing by right clicking on HL2 and choose properties), and add -console. That should bypass the rendering of the background so you can change the video options.

GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 12-06-2004, 01:02 PM

hmm, ok, i did what null suggested, and now i have a different problem.

i didn't completely delete the config file, but anywyas, now the game says that the file is corrupt or something, and so it says the files will be replaced by steam, except the windows then disappears and the process restarts.
ahhh!

Blackmane · 12-06-2004, 01:16 PM

Try completely deleting the config and see if it rebuilds itself.

Hopefully that works, but if not you might have to delete Steam's main .gnf file for HL2 which would make it reinstall the whole thing.

And, I definetely recommend putting -console in the command line to bring up the console at the beginning. It removes the main menu load which is nice, and the only downside is you don't get the active background.

Null · 12-06-2004, 01:35 PM

the config.cfg file the game will remake at start if it cant find it. it puts all default options on and makes that file over since its just a txt file.

if you havnt deleted the file just put it back and do what Jonbo said (i couldnt find a way to put that -console option in before he said that. im used to altering the link file and adding that in, i've never used steam until this game)

What exactly did you do if you didnt delete that cfg file anyway? i tried it on mine just to see and it remade the file for me with no probs.

GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 12-07-2004, 01:00 PM

i just stuck it in my recycle bin, i didn't delete it, i assumed it would rebuild it if it wasn't in the correct folder.