after playing the latest version of this game for a few hours the message hl2 has stopped working (or something very similar to that) appears followed by a shutdown of the game. If I then try to restart the game it will enter but only for about 15 minutes or so, then followed by the same message... any ideas how to fix this???

this message doesn't pop up on other games and mods


and another small thing
I've been trying to access the console in the game but without luck simply because I have a different keyboard layout. and I've noticed that the console button cannot be changed any ideas?

-console in the startupoptions and it will be there forever

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you can then use the console to bind a key to the console then take that line out...

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I remember vista in beta and shortly after it's release would sometimes show that message when the program was still running lol. Just had to move it off to the side and continue working.

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ok thanks guys.. though I've tried "bind p console" but it doesn't seem to understand the word console any help here?

I think it's 'toggleconsole', not 'console'.

I got my sourceforts working when I turned my steam language to english. (I'm from finland)