Happening here too.. hl2.exe still sits in the background and needs to be killed.
2009/1/19 dave daveslastname <[email protected]>: > I've also had this problem, but only when doing a LAN game. If I join one > of our development servers with other people playing, and quit the game from > there, hl2.exe doesn't show up in task manager. But if I do a LAN game to > test something and then quit, I can't restart the game until I end-task > hl2.exe. > > I've also crashed a few times as I've been working on the code, but clicking > the OK button on the crash dialog box didn't allow hl2.exe to stop. I still > had to manually end-task it to get it to quit. > > This seems to be a fairly recent thing, as I don't remember this happening > prior to this weekend. > > Also: EP1 engine mod. > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> I've had the same problems with my mod -- occasionally -- for weeks, if not >> a month or two. I thought it was related to my implemation of my Maxsi >> Distribution technology for automatic updates, but if you're getting it too >> then it's rather stange. Even more if you're using the Ep1 engine and I'm >> using the OB engine. >> >> I think some of my testers had that problem too, but weren't aware of it. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jed" <[email protected]> >> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <[email protected] >> > >> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:10 PM >> Subject: [hlcoders] hl2.exe not completely exiting when quitting mod? >> >> >> > Something odd has just recently starting happening with our EP1 based >> mod. >> > >> > Whenever we quit out the game window closes but if you try to start >> > the game again it says the game is unavailable. Looking in the task >> > manager hl2.exe is still running with 50% CPU utilisation but has no >> > window. Killing the process lets you start the game again. >> > >> > A few days before this happened, on starting a game I got an updating >> > dialog which I assumed was Steam updating something or the other. This >> > makes me wonder if something in a recent update is causing this? >> > >> > The only other clue I got was that on one occasion when doing an >> > attached debug on our mod, when I quit it I got an assert message for >> > tier2.lib which is not part of our mod's code - so I wondered if it's >> > something related to that. Sadly the message hasn't popped up since. >> > >> > Any insights? >> > >> > - Jed >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> >> > > > -- Hitman > _______________________________________________ > 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
