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Title: "hl2.exe is not working" with W7-64-duel screens
Post by: Snokio on November 07, 2009, 01:59:48 PM

For anyone who get the "hl2.exe is not working" error when starting games such as CSS and Neotokyo (and maybe L4D etc?) in W7 64bit and with duel screens, this might help you, I found a thread that suggested putting compatibility flag 'disable desktop composition' to source sdk base\hl2.exe, so I did this and :yahoo: both games now work with 2nd screen enabled! (disabling the second screen also works, but who wants that!)

I didn't get this with vista and seems to be a W7 related only.

Edit: screen shot of the fix:

Title: "hl2.exe is not working" with W7-64-duel screens
Post by: sulky_uk on November 07, 2009, 02:50:10 PM

is this a solution or are you bragging about your system :boxing:

glad you got it sorted

Title: "hl2.exe is not working" with W7-64-duel screens
Post by: OldBloke on November 07, 2009, 03:31:37 PM

I've got twin screens on W7 x64 and I'm not getting the error ... which is good because I didn't understand the fix :)

Title: "hl2.exe is not working" with W7-64-duel screens
Post by: Snokio on November 07, 2009, 04:09:34 PM

Quote from: sulky_uk;295615is this a solution or are you bragging about your system :boxing:

Nothing to brag about I'm afraid :sad:

I have added a screen shot to the first post, sorry for the small size, I don't know how to make it bigger :crying:

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