Half Life 2 - Can't get past the loading screen

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Half Life 2 - Can't get past the loading screen

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I'm running the game with the following options:
-novid -dxlevel 90 -width 1024 -height 768
I've got sound working using the ALSA driver.

I can play other games just fine.
I have an ATI Radeon X2300 which never game me any problems, I even used glxgears and got these results, which I think are ok:
7851 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1570.134 FPS
11556 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2311.148 FPS
13983 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2796.530 FPS
13909 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2781.636 FPS
12802 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2560.379 FPS
13365 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2672.850 FPS
12318 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2463.449 FPS
14019 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2803.650 FPS

But the thing is that wether I choose a lower resolution, a lower DX, with or without the intro vid, windowed or fullscreen, I always get to the initial loading that has that blurry background and it will *always* exit back to the desktop maintaning the game's resolution.

Is there any known fix for this? Any help would be appreciated :?
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Re: Half Life 2 - Can't get past the loading screen

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AJCF wrote:But the thing is that wether I choose a lower resolution, a lower DX, with or without the intro vid, windowed or fullscreen, I always get to the initial loading that has that blurry background and it will *always* exit back to the desktop maintaning the game's resolution.
Did you try all the suggested workarounds in AoppDB's HOWTO?
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Re: Half Life 2 - Can't get past the loading screen

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vitamin wrote:
AJCF wrote:But the thing is that wether I choose a lower resolution, a lower DX, with or without the intro vid, windowed or fullscreen, I always get to the initial loading that has that blurry background and it will *always* exit back to the desktop maintaning the game's resolution.
Did you try all the suggested workarounds in AoppDB's HOWTO?
Yes, vitamin, that's why I'm here.

Oh and I forgot to mention that I disabled the in-game community tab :wink:
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Yes, that's right :? Does that mean there's no fix for this? Damn...
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