Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode One

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Half Life Ep1 "ERROR" everywhere?
I get an "Error" item in game.... I can't find anything on google nor the forums for steam on this. If it's already been answered please post a link. When I started HLE1 there are big red "ERROR" artifacts throughout the game. They look like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9ph82o359dvxog/ep1_citadel_010000.jpg?dl=0

It's not a missing texture..... Not sure what it is.
Last edited by BoomboxBill; Jan 4, 2015 @ 4:11pm
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A-06 Jan 5, 2015 @ 3:40am 
It's a missing Model. Did you try Verifying the game cache already?
BoomboxBill Jan 6, 2015 @ 1:21pm 
First, thanks for the reply!

I wasn't sure I had done that already so I went ahead and did it again and it said everything was fine.... I read about that on some forum posts from looong ago. I verified HL2 EP1 and EP2 both just in case. I get those missing models on both games, but there are definitely more on EP1.
BoomboxBill Jan 6, 2015 @ 1:22pm 
Oh and when I google this problem I come up with a bunch of stuff for mods, but this is a fresh install, no mods installed..... Just FYI
A-06 Jan 7, 2015 @ 7:02am 
Ok, let's try this.

Go to this folder:
Steam \ SteamApps \ common \ Half-Life 2 \ episodic

Copy every VPK file you see inside and paste them here:
Steam \ SteamApps \ common \ Half-Life 2 \ episodic \ custom
If this last folder doesn't exist just create it.

IF it works, you could try the same for Ep2.


Also, does the console show any sign of errors in-game? That may help us know what's the real problem here.
BoomboxBill Jan 7, 2015 @ 1:44pm 
Looks promising.... I will be able to try this a little later tonight I believe. (I hadn't given any thoughts to the console... BRILLIANT lol)

Crossing my fingers!
BoomboxBill Jan 8, 2015 @ 1:02pm 
Haven't been able to try it yet. Just as a side note I installed on my other computer and it worked fine. Hmm.
BoomboxBill Jan 9, 2015 @ 8:24pm 
*SIGH* ... Stupid on my part. Nothing we tried worked so I just started validating all my games. HL2 failed 34 files, and now Episode one is working. So..... Seems it is dependant on some of those files, which makes sense, but I just failed to check the correct thing.
A-06, thank you very much for the time you spent with me!! Maybe someone else will find this helpful.
crumb Feb 24, 2015 @ 5:56am 
The samething happend to me i tryed to do the same thing i copyed and pasted and all that it did work thanks A-06
Bee Bender Mar 9, 2015 @ 2:05pm 
PC or Game System? (like xbox, ps3,4 etc)
poincare Jul 27, 2020 @ 10:34am 
GUYS DOWLOAD HALF LİFE 2
Genesis Jul 28, 2020 @ 3:35pm 
Originally posted by poincare:
GUYS DOWLOAD HALF LİFE 2
I actually download ep2 first and everything was fine
BoomboxBill Nov 12, 2020 @ 7:22pm 
Originally posted by Reemerging light:
Originally posted by poincare:
GUYS DOWLOAD HALF LİFE 2
I actually download ep2 first and everything was fine
This thread is so necro it had children and they are gettin old.
necro moment
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Date Posted: Jan 4, 2015 @ 4:11pm
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