Bug Fix Hunt

As it appears the many issues of the hl2.exe file and the
datacache.dll file have been around longer than they should have. At
this point it is clear that Valve may need help. My point here is, if
anyone was ever able to find a permanent fix or even just the cause of
the problem behind that notorious dll should be rewarded in some way.

In the mean time wouldnt it be helpful if we could compile all the
rumoured fixes to the hl2.exe stop error (datacache.dll crash)?

CheeseCake wrote:
> As it appears the many issues of the hl2.exe file and the
> datacache.dll file have been around longer than they should have. At
> this point it is clear that Valve may need help. My point here is, if
> anyone was ever able to find a permanent fix or even just the cause of
> the problem behind that notorious dll should be rewarded in some way.
>
> In the mean time wouldnt it be helpful if we could compile all the
> rumoured fixes to the hl2.exe stop error (datacache.dll crash)?

I've never encountered that error personally. Does it affect HL2 and
all mods/addons?

When a game or mod crashes and reports an error in a .DLL, that doesn't
mean there's necessarily a problem with that particular DLL, just that
the game was running some module from that DLL at the time it ran into
an error. Sometimes this can be down to some kind of memory
corruption, the possible reasons for which are pretty vast - Including
hardware faults or overheating, or even some other background process or
utility running into a buffer overflow.

--
Ben Cottrell

"Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out"