Completely shooting off of the hip, here. Try renaming or deleting your clientregistry.blob file in your hl2 directory (where hl2.exe resides).
-- Roy "Kylratix" Laurie On 20 Dec 2004 at 21:56, Skyler York wrote: > As the subject suggests, this latest update really hosed over my > Half-Life 2 installation. After starting Steam and receiving the new > update, here's what happened: > > 1) Steam updates and the Play Games window opens. > 2) I double-click on the Half-Life 2 icon in the Steam menu. > 3) "Preparing to play" dialog pops up, then disappears. Cursor turns > to busy hourglass. > 4) A few seconds later is when Half-Life 2 *usually* starts up. > However it doesn't now. Instead, the cursor just turns back into normal > and nothing happens. > 5) I check the process window, and there is indeed a hl2.exe running > the background taking up a mere 4 kb of memory. > 6) I attempt to load the Source SDK app (with hl2.exe still in the > background) and get this intimidating messagebox: > > SteamStartup() failed: SteamStartup(0xf,0x12f69c) failed with error 1 : > failed to take master pipe connection lock, Win32 Error 2 "The system > cannot find the file specified." > > 7) So I shutdown the hl2.exe process and try again. However the error > persists. > 8) At this point, Steam won't close normally and I have to end that > process too. Shutting down Steam resets everything back to it's > original state where I can reproduce the above procedure again and > again, and receive the same errors. > > If I go to Source SDK before attempting to run HL2, then it works > without problem and Steam shutdowns normally. I get the same error with > HL2DM and starting up HL2 with my mod in the "-game" path. In other > words, the problems only start if HL2 is invoked in some way. > Restarting the computer didn't help. I thought it was something I did > with the SDK, so I re-downloaded that, refreshed everything etc., and > the error persisted. I've done everything short of re-downloading > Half-Life 2. > > I'm thinking that somewhere along the line my Filesystem_Steam.dll or > Steam.dll got messed up. Between this update and the last update, I > *did* copy Filesystem_Steam.dll from half-life 2/bin to sourcesdk/bin > because Hammer was complaining about not being able to find it. But > that's the only "subversive" change I've made. All these problems seem > to relate to the system, and I know that this last update changed the > directory structure a bit. If you need any more information I'd be > happy to provide you with it. In the meantime I will give in and > re-download Half-Life 2 (all 838 megs, jeez) and see if that helps. > Thank God for fast university internet connections... > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
