Game crashing constantly

[Kid Named Dead Ringer]

Tryna play through episode 1 and just keep getting constant crashes, never had this issue before anniversary update, anyone else have this issue, dont want to get rid of all my workshop stuff just to play the same game ive played multiple times, my alyx workshop is necessery for immersion

[DuneDevil]

Publicado originalmente por Superscooter:

Publicado originalmente por DuneDevil:

Good news guys! I found a solution from a comment I found on another discussion that were having similar problems! First: unsub to all mods from the workshop, then uninstall hl2 and go to steam/steamapps/common and locate the Half-Life 2 folder and delete it, after that reinstall half-life 2 and everything should work properly again! (And fyi this won't delete any of your saves when you do this, so no need t worry about that.) Anyways I hope this helps y'all out!

Didn't have any mods. Tried this, still crashes after a few maps.

Damn, that sucks! I hope you find a fix soon for the crashing issues. I wish you luck!

[76561199799768350]

Disable multicore rendering... that helped me.

[anonymice1]

HL2 (I haven't tested episodes) crashes immediately after a new game start or saved game loaded.

[Milkyway]

Publicado originalmente por DuneDevil:

Publicado originalmente por Bugen:

Same. Anticitizen One level. Tried lots of fixes but nothing worked. Noticed file validation issues:

4 files fail validation and are reacquired, relaunch, play a few seconds, crash, 4 files fail validation and are reacquired. Endless loop.

This is exactly what happened to me! It would always say "10 files failed to validate and will be reacquired" but nothing change when I launch the game. I even did it twice before launching the game to see if it actually did fix anything, and what do you know, it said the same thing.

Same here, nothing I do works, I've tried unsubbing from certain mods I'd think were causing it, still crashes. Tried uninstalled hl2 and updating my already up to date drivers, still crashes. first crash happened at the first loading buffer in Anticitizen One. All other map loads from that point on have caused the game to crash with no error message, nothing. Just closes at sends me back to my desktop. It's really infuriating.

[76561199786353508]

Me to it always crashes

[Dr Gorden Fremen]

pov: entering ravenholm

[RegrettableQueso]

i’ve been getting problems too every time i open the ravenholm chapter but it only seems to crash when i have mods on and when i don’t it runs fine

[Kota1029]

I just got the game as a gift from my brother... I'm 40 minutes in and at least half of that was spent getting brutalized by cops. Anyways I'm at the part where you run through the building, up to the roof while the cops chase everybody. It crashed there and when I reloaded it immediately crashed again. After the fifth time I gave up. Did anyone find a solution that worked for them?

[Sky Batto]

Publicado originalmente por ʟᴀᴀ ʟᴀᴀ 愛♥:

Disable multicore rendering... that helped me.

didn't work

Publicado originalmente por DuneDevil:

Good news guys! I found a solution from a comment I found on another discussion that were having similar problems! First: unsub to all mods from the workshop, then uninstall hl2 and go to steam/steamapps/common and locate the Half-Life 2 folder and delete it, after that reinstall half-life 2 and everything should work properly again! (And fyi this won't delete any of your saves when you do this, so no need t worry about that.) Anyways I hope this helps y'all out!

neither did this

Publicado originalmente por DigaoBR81:

try to run the game as administrator, works for me

nor did this

the only thing i can think at this moment is that it could be the NVidia app. i've been hearing recently that the app is making a lot of games crash and people recommend just manually updating your GPU drivers from their site. though i haven't heard anything about whether you can just end task it in task manager, or if you have to uninstall it entirely for it to stop interfering with games. that said, i can't say that i've had this issue with Half-Life 2 before either the anniversary update, nor the update to NVidia app that's causing issues with other games. but i'm leaning more towards whatever update Valve made to HL2 because I wasn't even running NVidia in my task manager when i was having all the same issues as everyone else.

[FictionalBiscuits]

Possible fix for HL2 w/ mods crashing (not vanilla)

Ok, so, running the game in fullscreen, it crashes and blacks the screen out completely.

Playing borderless and windowed will give you an actual error message when it crashes instead of forcing you to use task manager just to close HL2.

The error message in question is:

Too many indices for index buffer.

Long story short, if you're getting this message, you're gonna have to uninstall some mods, because it just means there's an excess of indices that HL2's array(s) aren't capable of handling. I don't know, man; I'm not a programmer.

The pack that caused this error for me was running Juniez Weapon Models alongside HL:A model Combine Soldiers. Because they're too high resolution, the game literally crashes every single time I get into a gunfight.

I ran the game for a solid hour or two without any crashes.

[mrplasid]

Constant crashes on hl2 can't be nvidia driver, i'm on intel

[mrplasid]

Game carries on playing, but graphics freezes

[MEKO]

I cannot start a new game in HL2. Reloading older save files works just fine. Also, now I have this weird bug where i don't take any damage from my own grenades, or I take no damage at all and I cannot pickup ammo.

[Ed]

Yesterday i had an issue with half life ep 1 suddenly stop loading any savefiles. The bar will show up and stop at half and go back ot the game main menu, hell i couldn´t even start a new game, same thing happened. I re-installed the game and nothing. Eeventually i figure the anniversary update combining all 3 games into one probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the compatibility of workshop mods so i unninstalled the 2 mods i had that fixes some npc animations and another that added new animations to weapons and now it works no problem

[Kota1029]

Publicado originalmente por Ed:

Yesterday i had an issue with half life ep 1 suddenly stop loading any savefiles. The bar will show up and stop at half and go back ot the game main menu, hell i couldn´t even start a new game, same thing happened. I re-installed the game and nothing. Eeventually i figure the anniversary update combining all 3 games into one probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the compatibility of workshop mods so i unninstalled the 2 mods i had that fixes some npc animations and another that added new animations to weapons and now it works no problem

It’s definitely not a mod related issue, at least not the freezing and crashing issues that this thread is about. I don’t have any mods because I wanted my first playthrough to be vanilla.