Repeatable Crash In Dark Energy Level

[alphadog]

Okay, I've been playing dilligently and very stably until the "Our Benefactors" chapter. I am in the Citadel, after getting the Dark Energy gun, at the elevator shaft after the room with the blue beam going upwards in the middle. When I take the elevator up, I am in an area with a force field surrounding me which falls when I yank out a core and two guards. As soon as I throw the core at one of them, the game crashes to the desktop. If I don't throw a core, take the bullets and run close enough to blast a guard with the energy gun, I also crash to the desktop.

Basically, I can't touch these guards without crashing the game. Anyone have any idea why?

So close, yet so far...

- alphadog

 

[Barney Fife]

Must be a software glitch try restarting level.

Good Luck.

 

[Beerdude26]

Do you have a 64-bit processor?

 

[alphadog]

Barney: Tried a whole new game starting at that level. Still crashing at the exact same place. Validated HL2 game files just in case it was a corrupt file. No problems there.

Beerdude: Yes. Config is a self-built box: Asus K8N-DL, dual 244 Opterons and 2GB RAM running XP64 SP1.

 

[Beerdude26]

Had to give this advice three times today

Try putting "-32bit" behind the game shortcut.

Your savegames will probably be gone (for the 32-bit version), so just type in sv_unlockedchapters 14 in the console and you should be able to start a new game and select the chapter you were in.

 

[funkyFlash]

My friend Stu has the exact same problem in the exact same spot. He has an X2 4800+. It must be a 64 bit thing. I haven't played through the game since the 64 bit patch came out, so I'd imagine I'll have the same issue!

 

[alphadog]

Worked. Thanks, Beerdude. Posted to Steam's Support and it is apparently a known issue to be fixed "Real Soon Now". Couldn't wait so I played that level in 32bit.

 

[gfreeman]

I was having the same problem after searching for days i finally found the solution thx god. I was going nuts. Beer dude you sir are a life saver.lol