Fuck source games.

[DemonOne]

Hey jngrow,

Which error messages do you get?

I had Source games (mainly EP1, EP2 and mods) crashing for me all the time because of AVG, so that's one known problem.

You should also visit the Steam tech support, it does address some of the problems of stuttering and others.

[jngrow]

I don't really get any error messages, most of the time it's a massive stutter, or the occasional "hl2.exe has stopped working".

[LlamaMaster]

The only way I could get HL2 to work was uninstalling norton. I doubt you have that though.

[Rosco]

As much as steam can be annoying, but that seems like a pretty painful choice of playing Half Life.

[Botolf]

I don't really get any error messages, most of the time it's a massive stutter, or the occasional "hl2.exe has stopped working".

If you have AVG, close the control center when running games. It was the cause of a lot of stuttering for me.

[jngrow]

I do have AVG, I'll try it, because DX8 makes me sad.

[DemonOne]

I had to completely uninstall AVG for my Source games to work.
Shutting it down and turning off it's services didn't work for me.

Don't be lazy like I was... it took me some time to uninstall AVG (like Steam support says), wasted time.

I installed AVAST instead and all my games work just fine.

[Sel]

I have AVG, and no problems with source games. I have had the problem you're talking about once, but that was because the game fucked up loading the level or something.

So I just reloaded the level and it all went fine and dandy, instead of crashing in the same place repeatedly.

[SnaFuBAR]

In soviet Russia, HL2 games fuck you.

[RedBaron]

In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia jokes make you.