Senor Barborito wrote:

Bodybag wrote:

Tee hee, you mean the patch 1.1.1.0 that came with that gay Tr0n mod? I got that back in the summer when it came out, no problems there, matey. Here's what went down:
I read a post about CS 1.6 which I'm a little curious about, and the ensuing thread mentions some mod I haven't heard of before that bears a striking resemblance to the Alien franchise, of which I am a gaint adoring fag. I had, at this point, just finished with the Steam download of 1.6, which didn't seem to work; since Steam went into my HL dir, I decided to fire up regular HL to make sure everthing was in order. It was. I then installed said AvP ripoff mod and recieved this Precondition Assertion Error:

Name: Non-null m_pOwnedObj
Program: C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\hl.exe
File:../../../common/Misc\ThreadSafeCountedPtr.h
Line:262

m_pOwnedObj

(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT debugginf must be enabled)


I'll go ahead and kill the suspense and inform everyone that I DID indeed press the retry button...what happened after that...well that's my little secret. But it wasn't good. Anyways, I don't seriously blame anyone for the apparent freak meltdown of my HL exe...it's just something that happened to coincide with installing that mod. That doesn't at all mean he's not a huge, pillow-biting fag, because I have pretty reliable gaydar, and it got a ping.

OK, so it was probably a Steam error, because that's EXACTLY what all of the 50+ Steam errors I've gotten have looked like - an m_<p for pointer><something> error in a thread-related header (see line 3) and then a final line complaining about Just-In-Time compiler debugging. Since none of us has the source code and I don't feel like wading through assembly in MSVC++, there was no point in hitting retry, so I just hit 'Ignore' and everything worked after that. My Half-Life directory remained in healthy working order (after the *CORRPUTED* 409MB DL of CS 1.6 I went and played some 1.5) afterwards.

I guess you have to have worked with MSVC a bit to know that 'hit Retry to debug the application' is usually a fruitless quest (for any application you aren't developing personally) unless you're quite the ASM pimp (and even then, it technically violates the EULA in the Steam installer, if any, I guess).

--SB