There's a Steam.dll in your game directory. Delete it. :) If it's not there, then find any that aren't in the main Steam directory and delete them.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skyler York Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] Half-Life 2 has hosed itself! 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
