Orange Box Halflife 2 hang

Grayarea

Hi all,

I have been playing through Halflife 2 on my 360 for the last few weeks and have got nearly to the end.

I am in Chapter 12 - Our Benefactors just at the fight with the strider.

The game consistently hangs after I jump down and just before I can engage the combine, sometime I can see the strider in the distance but mostly not.

The game freezes and I cannot get any reaction from the 360 (totally hung).

I have cleared the cache and tried running with only memory card (hard drive disconnected) but it is the same.

I assumed that my 360 was on it's way out (this is my first replacement) so was expecting three rings etc;

However I ran episode one and so far have not had a crash after about 2 hours of play, and this right after the issues with Halflife2 so given that episode one uses more power I came to the conclusion that the crash I was having is a software bug.

Anyone seen this? Anyone know a workaround?

Thanks,

Grayarea

It seems that I am not the only one!

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=634695

At least I can discount my 360 nearing 3ring death

Later,

silvine

Any sign of a patch or a workaround? Anyone else had this problem? Surely if everyone couldn't finish the game because of this, there'd be uproar.

Grayarea

Seems to be a game engine bug, I got past it by replaying from a previous chapter.

I cannot see what I did differently the second time, but it worked

Later,

jayteecork

That was the hardest part of Half Life 2 that Strider battle.
Thank God for those last few levels, I was really feeling let down with Half Life 2.
Expecially when Ravenholm was so good then it got so repetitive after that.