Hey everyone! I have a quick question regarding a really weird problem I'm having with Half Life 2.
Whenever I start it up, the Valve splash screen plays out all right, but then the game crashes to desktop with a "HL2 is not responding" error message, here are the details:
The reason this error is so baffling to me is that the game ran fine less than a day ago. Nothing has been changed except for my location, which shouldn't matter as far as I know.
One fix I've thought about using was to simply run the game in windowed mode, however I can't seem to do so. Does anyone know how to make this happen? I've tried adding the -W argument on the shortcut that launches HL2, but it still runs in fullscreen...?
Anyways, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT : My computer is a Alienware M17 laptop, the specs far exceed the minimum reqs. for HL2, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. Drivers, DirectX, etc are all updated.
Whenever I start it up, the Valve splash screen plays out all right, but then the game crashes to desktop with a "HL2 is not responding" error message, here are the details:
Code:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: hl2.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4445c334
[B] Fault Module Name: StackHash_abcc[/B] <------ [I][U](This seems important..?)[/U][/I]
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 74ece2d4
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: abcc
Additional Information 2: abcc8f7853b48d9807d6d51eb1fa5df9
Additional Information 3: abcc
Additional Information 4: abcc8f7853b48d9807d6d51eb1fa5df9
The reason this error is so baffling to me is that the game ran fine less than a day ago. Nothing has been changed except for my location, which shouldn't matter as far as I know.
One fix I've thought about using was to simply run the game in windowed mode, however I can't seem to do so. Does anyone know how to make this happen? I've tried adding the -W argument on the shortcut that launches HL2, but it still runs in fullscreen...?
Anyways, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT : My computer is a Alienware M17 laptop, the specs far exceed the minimum reqs. for HL2, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. Drivers, DirectX, etc are all updated.