As the topic says, I try to load up Empires and it says "hl2.exe has stopped working" This problem only started today and was working yesterday and way before that so.... I have no idea whats going on, I've also tried everything I could think of or do on the forum. Halp please? I am also using Vista... lol... Edit: Half-life 2 starts up and that exe is fine but the source sdk base exe is messed. Here is the error that X-fire got, I've tried to start with and without x-fire. c:\program files\steam\steamapps\account\source sdk base\hl2.exe <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ExceptionReport Version="4"> <Application Build="30635" Command=""c:\program files\steam\steamapps\account\source sdk base\hl2.exe" -game sourcetest -steam -game "c:\program files\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\empires" "/> <OperatingSystem Type="2"><Version Major="6" Minor="0" Build="6001"/></OperatingSystem> <Exception Code="C0000005" Address="2A02E59A"><Module Section="0001" Offset="0002D59A" FileName="c:\program files\steam\steamapps\account\source sdk base\bin\shaderapidx9.dll"/></Exception> <Registers EAX="00000000" EBX="76193DE5" ECX="002B9F70" EDX="002B9F70" ESI="76193E0D" EDI="00000000" CS="001B" EIP="2A02E59A" SS="0023" ESP="0012E610" EBP="04C56208" DS="0023" ES="0023" FS="003B" GS="0000" Flags="00010246"/> <BackTrace> <Frame ProgramCounter="2A02E59A" StackAddress="0012E610" FrameAddress="04C56208"> <Module Section="0001" Offset="0002D59A" FileName="c:\program files\steam\steamapps\deathstorm989\source sdk base\bin\shaderapidx9.dll"/> <StackHeump From="0012E610" To="0012E690">d8 64 c5 04 28 1a 09 2a ff 07 00 00 b4 fe 63 11 00 e8 63 11 54 ff 63 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 1a 09 2a d8 64 c5 04 aa c7 01 2a 00 00 00 00 af c7 01 2a 88 b4 b8 0f 88 ff 12 00 d8 64 c5 04 b0 82 b8 0f 50 38 c5 04 f6 44 c1 02 55 08 00 00 20 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 ff ff ff 7f 00 60 47 79 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 fe 7f 00 b0 17 6c 88 b4 b8 0f dd ef b4 0f</StackHeump> </Frame> </BackTrace> </ExceptionReport>
edit: Never mind I misunderstood post. Also I've tried all this: I've tried everything in http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=3938 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=4077 Cold booted, restarted, tried to install updates. Already had most of em installed. Nothing works, so tell me how do I fix this? It's like hl2.exe corrupted.... Edit: I've also tried reinstalling Empires and source SDK base. I've even tried to verify the files and such.
I'm stumped.... Reinstalled steam, deleted sourcemods, reinstalled empires... nothing... Even when I try to start up source sdk base hl2.exe crashes.... I can't believe I'm saying this but I may be forced to uninstall empires if it's gonna stay broken. One of my fav damn games and no one has a fix for it.....
Doesn't give me any .mdmp Anyways just finished reinstalling steam. Redownloading ALL my steam games. I will let you know if this fixes my problem.... I have to redownload and install like 20gb of stuff. Thank god for a 25mb connection.
Reinstalling did not work.... BLAH.... Yes my sound and graphics driver is up to date, when hl2.exe in source sdk gets started up it auto crashes on me. Note: This problem only occurred recently... as in 2 days ago. Computer specs: Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz Memory: 3326MB RAM Should be 4gb. Hard Drive: 311 GB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Monitor: HP w2207 Wide LCD Monitor Sound Card: Speakers Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium
I don't believe it, no one has a fix? I've searched and searched and got nothing. I've reinstalled multiple times and tried everything I could find on google. Fuck this is so fucking stupid! Source sdk base crashes on started. CSS crashes on startup. DODS crashes on startup. Anything using source sdk base crashes on startup. It doesn't even open the game or nothing just says "hl2.exe has crashed" Empires is one of my most fav games. if I have to uninstall because a tech support section has no fixes and valve has no fixes ether then this is complete bs.
If you can wait, you can try the OB version of empires, since it can run on more than one core, and has several bug fixes.
OB version? Anyways this isn't just an empires problem, anything to do with source sdk base crashes. I've tried everrrrryyyy thing to fix it that I could find using google. I'm stumped. I would love help to try and figure this out.
oh come on i know it´s ahrd for you but obviously this is an unencounterd problem that hast not happend up to day so it may take some time for someone find out to fix this...
A friend got this bug too , or similiar, but for him every game just starts and then goes back to desk. Anyone know why?
Took me days to figure it out but I did, made a topic. Read I almost let off a load in my pants because i found this fix, I BEEN WANTING TO PALY FOR SO LONG AND I CAN AHHAHAHD FNGJLGM,SDBLJDSFGKHBDFSKJGHN