I need help with some Half-life2 errors.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:03 am

Yeah, finally got me dirty hands on a half-life2 Vengeance, the crack didn't work on Win ME, but now that I have winXP it did.

However, i seem to be getting a bit of a problem, I can only play for about 10minutes sometimes less sometimes more, before I get:

"C++ Runtime Error. Abnormal Program Termination".

Apparently after checking this on google I deduced that it's a problem with secondary auxiliary cards. Such as Soundblaster Live and the like, and if you have an asus motherboard. I have that and a soundblaster audigy.

Anybody know of the cure for this?

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/archive ... 52380.html

Theyre talking about the problem here, but I don't seem to understand the solution quite. I turned off my secondary (only one physical card, don't understand why there's two units) Radeon 9800 Pro and my Audigy. And used my sh*tty built-in sound, but it didn't help.

sidestreaker · Post by **sidestreaker** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:07 pm

my a.i is disabled after 5 minutes of play

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:53 pm

That's because your using one of Emporios sh*tty versions!

I'm using the Vengeance release with cd-update, with CS:source and after that Protocolv7 with half-life deathmatch!

Do you want a link to a torrent with the vengeance-release? It's good stuff.

You do know about the little trick of not shutting down the console when you start the game, and when playing and you get ai_disable write in console: "ai_disable 0"

NOTE!: I only have the "Abnormal Program Termination Error" with Half-life2, CS: Source works like a charm.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:45 pm

I have no end of trouble with radon cards -will never get one again.

make sure all your drivers on your sounds card are up to date.

If u were using ME before, is the motherboard old? it might not like your newer G and sound card.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:12 pm

Hmmm..well it's an Asus P4PE not sure about the year, but it's slightly old, yes. Doesn't even have a 8x AGP slot, but a 4x AGP. As for G 'n' S-cards they are both up to date. Can't really afford to change motherboard at the moment tho.

(Who can really? Oh..Impy...)

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:36 pm

that might be wear the problem lays, the MB might just be a bit un-compatable with your new cards.

Like I said, ive had no end of trouble with ATI cards, they might be quick, but they feck up on almost every game.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:55 pm

Hmm??

Maybe they are a bit incompatable, but it works just fine with Doom3.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:34 am

hmm u dont have an old g card somewhere, u could tet HL2 and see if it still fecks up.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:09 pm

DOn't have an old gcard anywhere, no. But I do have an old integrated sound-card. Wich I have disabled in windows, and then disabled in Bios. However, using only my Audigy, seems to have acctually made it worse. I tried using only my integrated, and it may have worked a bit better, but it still crashed.

*NOTE!*
I just noticed this dutch site here, and there's a fella there that has the same problem, except that he has an nVidia card!! This does indeed prove that the problem might be far more deep-rooted than previously expected. I don't understand much of what theyre saying, but maybe Dylan can have a look at it and tell Impy what he thinks?

http://forum.gamer.nl/archive/index.php/t-58967.html

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:17 pm

Strike my idiotic ramblings about Doom3 woring perfectly on my system, just like with HL2 I get a Visual Basic C++ error, but this time it's a buffer-run error apparently. Ideas anyone?? Could conflicting drivers create errors such as these? Cause I've got according to windows a secondary adapter, even tho there really is none, I don't have 2 Radeon cards wich it states.

EDIT: Prior to installing HL2, and after I had installed HL2 and it worked pretty good, I installed the latest version of the Java runtime evironment, can this have any impact whatsoever on my systems ability to play these games?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:28 pm

nope.

All i can suggest is u get the latest, motherboard,graphics card, sounds card, windows updates drivers.

Failing that i think a bit of your hardware, your MB is tol old for your g-card. a buffer error sounds like an information overflow, probably you g-card sending back to much across your MB or somthing.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:10 pm

Hmm, I've got the latest drivers for the G-card, only a few days old acctually, and I've filled up on all the windows updates that I can get ahold of, even put in the new .net-waddayacallit about an hour ago. The soundcard tho, well it's an Audigy1-card, so I think the drivers I loaded for it about 2 weeks ago is the latest, I believe theyre probably not releasing anything after that. And the motherboard..well, it's a few years old, and it's only got AGP 4x not 8X so that might be the problem, but I was under the impression that it would work like a charm with backwards-compatibility..

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:41 pm

some bits of hardware just dont get on with others tho.

my mate has a good g-card, and on certain games, at certain exact points it crashs the machine. we know its his old MB, about 4 years old now I think.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:45 pm

DAMN! This could be costly to correct with other words!

I seriously cannot afford a motherboard.

My G-card cost me over 200 dollars.. I'm broke.