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Portal First Slice - Crashes anyone??

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Old 04-03-08, 11:00 AM   #1
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Portal First Slice - Crashes anyone??


Has anyone played this game on Steam, or had any crashes when it tries to run?

Everytime I try to run it, I get an error 'HL2.exe has encountered an error and will close'

I can run Half Life 2 ok, but Portal won't.

I've read loads on the Steam forums and it seems it's something to do with Windows WMI. Apparently the only way to fix it is to re-install Windows. Seems a bit extreme, and only started happening after a Steam update.

Anyone else had this problem?
 
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Old 04-03-08, 11:05 AM   #2
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yeah i get that aswell, not sure why it happens though because the game runs perfectly some times and other times it doesnt run at all
 
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Did your steam client update the game with the latest patch? have you tried uninstalling portal completely and then reinstalling it via Steam?

Let me know im curious, and I think reinstalling windows is a bit extreme!
 
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do a system restore to a date before the steam update
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I did actually manage to fix the WMI enough to get Portal running. There are still some WMI errors, but they don't seem to be causing any other problems so far. You can read what I done on here, the last post;

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