Half-Life 2: Update keeps crashing / freezing

[⚜Sylv1c⚜]

Howdy! So I bought Half-Life 2 yesterday and also downloaded the HL2: Update mod here on Steam! The game start to freeze / crash after somewhere between 5-10 minutes of gameplay! What could be the issue? It is there a solution to fix that?!

My specs:
- AMD Ryzen 5 2400G NON-OC but I changed the CPU VCore at 1.35V
- Gigabyte Geforce GTX 960 4GB (436.30 Driver)
- HyperX Predator RGB 16 GB RAM with A-XMP 2 (2933 MHz)
- MSI B450M Mortar Titanium
- WD New Green SSD 120 GB + WD Blue HDD 1TB 7200RPM
- Windows 10 1903 Build 18362.356

[dragonbeast6]

Having the same problem

Amd ryzen 1600x
Msi geforce rtx 2080 ti
Corsair Rgb 2x8 gb ram
Windows 10 1903

[dragonbeast6]

It always happen when Im doing a funny button pressing. Like trying to duck while shifting weapons.

[Niclouse]

Its only crashed once for me when a drop ship unloaded enemies, they started blinking before it crashed... code is weird.

[dragonbeast6]

Originally posted by ⚜Zektor⚜:

Howdy! So I bought Half-Life 2 yesterday and also downloaded the HL2: Update mod here on Steam! The game start to freeze / crash after somewhere between 5-10 minutes of gameplay! What could be the issue? It is there a solution to fix that?!

My specs:
- AMD Ryzen 5 2400G NON-OC but I changed the CPU VCore at 1.35V
- Gigabyte Geforce GTX 960 4GB (436.30 Driver)
- HyperX Predator RGB 16 GB RAM with A-XMP 2 (2933 MHz)
- MSI B450M Mortar Titanium
- WD New Green SSD 120 GB + WD Blue HDD 1TB 7200RPM
- Windows 10 1903 Build 18362.356

Try this :
under your nvidia control panel select adjust desktop size and position, the set perform scalling on: GPU instead of display.

That fixed it for me.

[⚜Sylv1c⚜]

Well, looks like I found and fixed the issue! All I have to do was to change to "previous build" in order to work perfectly fine.

[ZloVeshiy PartiZaN]

hl2 update need new update! lol

[⚜Sylv1c⚜]

I know it needs the new update but it's still problematic and freeze the game almost every 5-10 seconds or even after 2 minute of gameplay!

[SportyHeadShot]

Im getting crashes whenever I use the gravity gun to kill combine. Other than that I haven't had issues. I think its triggered by physics, if I use the buggy to slam some rebar into enemies occasionally it crashes but most of it happens from using larger items to smash enemies such as the metal walls at that gas station. Barrels don't seem to trigger it but the electric trip mines definitely cause CTD

Its kind of annoying... because the funest part of HL2 is goreing enemies with items but most of the time when I do it crashes me to my desktop

[Filip Victor]

HL2:Update before release was tested on a bunch of system configs. Also the update is running on the same code as original HL2. There are no changes to engine core or other critical aspects that would cause crashes. Even regular HL2 has issues/crashes even more than the update and some might have no issues. Probably to fix or check the cause (OS or hardware) I would have to inspect the setup personally :)

[mrplasid]

So hl2 played fine, Updated to hl2 update and now it crashes every two minutes, so the problem is the hardware or OS that haven't changed.

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by mrplasid:

So hl2 played fine, Updated to hl2 update and now it crashes every two minutes, so the problem is the hardware or OS that haven't changed.

Not sure, need more details where and how.

[mrplasid]

13th gen i7
64 gig ram
intel XE graphics
Graphics crash every 3-4 minutes, can hear game carry on but only ctrl-alt-del will work.
Then restart game play 3-4 minutes crash and so on

[mrplasid]

34 files failed to validate and will be reacquired

[cheshirm]

had not played in awhile. have had windows 11 version 23H2 updated to 24H2 and nvidia 566.93 updates since last played

game would not run. windows reliability history has windows hardware errors
and nvidia overlay.exe app stopped working

tech details show for hardware errors shows
there is a WATCHDOG-20241228-0820.dmp
using windbg to analyze that shows
SYMBOL_NAME: dxgkrnl
DISPLAYSTATECHECKER::CreateBlackScreenLiveDump+44e
MODULE_NAME: dxgkrnl
IMAGE_NAME: dxgkrnl.sys
IMAGE_VERSION: 10.0.26100.2454

and several
SYMBOL_NAME: nvlddmkm+17016a0
MODULE_NAME: nvlddmkm
IMAGE_NAME: nvlddmkm.sys

used DDU to wipe the nvidia driver, rebooted, clean installed latest driver, rebooted

game now works on win 11 version 24H2 and nvidia 566.93 (3060ti)
no errors in logs. so guessing something between the dx graphics kernal/nvidia system got messed up during an update.

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by mrplasid:

13th gen i7
64 gig ram
intel XE graphics
Graphics crash every 3-4 minutes, can hear game carry on but only ctrl-alt-del will work.
Then restart game play 3-4 minutes crash and so on

I’ve heard many times that even retail, and un-modded hl2 can still experience random crashes or screen artifacts on Intel XE GPUs. This is partly because Intel XE has limited support for DirectX 9 games—some work, some don’t. Unfortunately, I don’t have a fix for this, unless you decide to upgrade your GPU hardware later on.