Ugh, why is it whenever I get a new game over $20 it doesn't work right? Keep in mind I'm using Vista.

I just got the Orange Box set from Steam and installed Half Life 2. Here's what happens:

I start up Half Life 2
It goes to the loading screen
"64-Bit Mode active" shows in the corner
Nothing

I've tried running as an Administrator and XPSP2 Compatibility mode. Does Half Life 2 simply not work on Vista? I mean, the demo, Lost Coast, and Deathmatch work perfectly, why not the actual game?!?!? Or does it just take a really long time to load on Vista?

Any other problems I have with Orange Box games I'll post here.

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This is starting to get really annoying. Firewall is set to allow Half Life 2, yet it still freezes on the loading screen.

EDIT: Gonna try Team Fortress 2 now, see if it works.

Team Fortress 2 works fine, it's a problem with HL2.

Eff you Vista..

HL2 woks fine for me. At the time I did not have internet whe I bought the Oranbe Box so I downloaded all the stuff for offline play. Now I'm thinking about uninstalling EVERYTHING and reinstalling it withought that option activated because it took up and UNGODLY amount of space on my hardrive.
I always hit a few snags when playing TF2 but I'm sure yu, like me, will develope your own unorthodox way of dealing with them.
(Hint: when it takes forever to load click madly works for me.)

Well, looks like the only game that won't work is HL2.

Since I've already spoiled the ending of HL2 courtousy of Youtube, I'm gonna just jump into Episode 1.

EDIT: Jademz is helpin' me out with getting it to run through a particular command, no idea if it'll work.

I don't get it, it seemingly works for every other vista user on the planet, why not me?!?

EDIT 2: Still no luck, and I believe Jademz is having some difficulties, too. Thinkin about backing up all my data and installing XP on this Vista machine. I don't wanna do it unless there's a zero chance of it working.

EDIT 3: Just realized somethin'. A lot of the people with Steam issues had XP, which leads me to believe that Steam has problems with the XP OS, and therefore I'd be taking a massive risk at losing everything I've bought.

he got it working.

he figured out that the other HL2 games weren't launching in 64 bit mode, and I found the command he needed to force it into 32 bit mode, through right-clicking on the properties, go to set launch commands and enter in:
-32bit


I tried to use -directx0 and to see if we could get lucky.. when he reminded himself of something obvious..

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TronFAQ Wrote:It looks like Valve broke something recently. Some people are suggesting that it has to do with Left4Dead. That if you have it installed (full game or demo), it affects HL2 64-bit mode somehow

Valve automatically uninstalled the demos from everyone when the full game came out, so I'm okay.

HL2 works perfect for me right now, so I'll just keep it the way it is.

I was talking to a friend of mine, here's the conversation:

Me: Guess what?
Friend: Chicken butt
Me: I got the Orange Box!
Me: But HL2 doesn't work!
Friend: lol
Me: Unless you consider watching the blurry loading screen a game
Friend: It takes 5 minutes to load usually
Me: I waited for 10
Friend: Wait for 20



Many thanks to Jademz.

I forgot to mention earlier, I was starting to get so upset that I was about to write a HalfLife: Full Life Consequences-esque documentation of me not being able to play HL2. Possible scene:

"NO!" yell tron.dll realloud. "I must saves erth from headcrabs and combines but cannot cus computer is evil!"



Last night I was playing TF2 on a CTF map. I captured the intel and returned it to the base. Then I said:

"I have take the intelligence and it will cause meltdown!"

And the Cam_the_Man (who was also on the server) said:

"No! Not all of Dallas!"

I rofl'd

I think demos are broken on steam. I tried to play audiosurf demo after downloading it but it was stuck on "processing" or something.

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