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    HL2: Episode 1

    I've been playing this recently and been experiencing a lot of problems - a lot of crashes. Has anyone else seen this and are there any fixes for it?

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    what system specs? I have never had any crashes in this game at all :S... should be standard to post ur specs so people can see what problems could arise. If its a new card then its prob graphics drivers (or espcially if SLI/Crossfire)
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    Sorry i thought my system spec was in "my system" but, for some reason it wasn't (i had previously put them in ) anyway it's there now, all other games have run flawlessly apart from oblivion which crashes on exit, but i presumed this was a common problem.

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    not had any problems either, game was a bit short though.. took an hour to finish :\

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    Nevermind, completed it anyway with numerous crashes in between, its not an isolated problem i was seeing, did a search for it and valve know about the bug but haven't gotten round to fixing it yet. Odd though how i've not seen it in any other source based games :/ if anyone's interested in the issue do a search for datacache.dll on google.

    Edit: despite it's bugs it was pretty cool to play too.

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    I got random crashes when loading my saved levels lots of times!
    I also get very occasional crashes on CS:S when changing maps.

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    Never had a problem with my steam account but find the game a graphics nightmare on an Ati x300. Good luck with fixing the bug.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abeacock View Post
    I got random crashes when loading my saved levels lots of times!
    I also get very occasional crashes on CS:S when changing maps.
    I have this problem too, if i'm on the same server for a while, during one of the map changes steam will crash completely just as its about to finish loading, have no idea why that is though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Postalisback View Post
    I have this problem too, if i'm on the same server for a while, during one of the map changes steam will crash completely just as its about to finish loading, have no idea why that is though.
    My thought is that there is a memory or resource leak in the Steam/CS:S engine and after a few loads/map changes it's all too much for poor Steam and it has to have a rest!

    If I even find a solution (or reason) then I will post to the forums...

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    I got crashes all the time, it took me weeks to finish since I could only play it for more than 2 minutes on the 'lucky' days.

    I'm seriously considering not getting EP2... but then I would miss out on Portal and TF2.

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    And TF2 looks like to shouldn't be missed - I can't wait!

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