Nope, sometimes when I close hl2.exe unnaturally Steam stops processing messages from Windows and locks up, though luckily not in a dead lock. That's pretty annoying.
Since so many people has that error, I think Valve should do something about it. Personally, I think it's related to something not terminating, most like a thread or something, but that's just guessing. - Sortie > you people complain too much i think > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Sykes <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
