look in the windows event viewer for a game crash event for any of the crashing games. #1. g2gfast Aug 28, 2017 @ 8:50am. Here's what I found in event viewer for hl2.exe: "Faulting module name: ddraw.dll_unloaded, version: 10.0.15063.0, time stamp: 0xeca5f2bf". Software gives very low resulution and the screen don't display everything. I fixed it by forcing OpenGL and 1600x1200 (thank to LiveWire link) once to configure game setings. #13. Showing 1 - 13 of 13 comments. Per page: 15 30 50. Originally posted by 🌐ᴢᴈᴇᴇᴋ: Try adding the following to your launch options: -noforcemaccel -noforcemparms -noforcemspd. If you are still experiencing acceleration try MarkC Mouse Fix, [donewmouseaccel.blogspot.com] and of course experiment with raw input enabled and disabled. Raw Input Console Variable: m_rawinput [0/1] i tried I have problems running HL2, Portal 2 and HL 2 Deathmatch. These games really stutter and I have like 2 FPS everywhere, even in menus. I tried re-installing, but that didn't help. Even tried running Windows versions using Wine, but I still have the same issue. But this isn't problem for all Source games, CS:GO works perfectly. Launch it now or download it here. Half-Life 2: Demo is the demo version of Half-Life 2. The demo consists of excerpts of the Point Insertion and Ravenholm chapters ( d1 trainstation 01, d1 trainstation 02, d1 town 01, d1 town 02, d1 town 03 ). Note:If you already own the game, to enter the demo mode, use the -demo command line options. Use the game launch options. 1 Click Library in Steam. 2 Righr click the Half-Life game. 3 Next select properties. 4 Click the box "set launch options". 5 Then enter the command "-software -norm -windowed -w 800" no quote marks. 6 Click ok. ---. Correct your screen resolution in game menu options. Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Counter-Strike are some of the best source engine-based games. All these games require a source file to launch on Windows PC. Hl2.exe is the core file to run Half-Life 2. Under the General tab, click Set Launch Options. 3. Enter. into the text box, and click OK. 4. Close the properties window and launch the game. 5. In the game, press the ~ key to open the console. It is below the Esc key. First Right click half life in your steam library Enter Properties at the bottom of the list it gives you Go to where it says "Betas" on the left hand side and click beta (it's highlighted in the image above) Then go BACK to General In the prompt where it says "Launch Options" WITHIN GENERAL Within the prompt type "-gamepadui" the newest half life 2 output only debug.log file with size 0. so no d3d log. maybe this help more to find the problem. I also report the shader model 6 crash with crashlog to unreal develop time. maybe vulkan do not crash and so it show no textures. this is the GFX card i have. it can play half life 2 with more than 30 fps in 4k and many new mICGwbB.