Azure Sheep problem (crashing)- any ideas?

First, I should state that I've played the mod all the way through in the
past with no problems that I can recall.

I decided to re-play it a couple of days ago, and have gotten to the
point - a bit after collecting Kate- where you have to shoot down a
helicopter.
All of a sudden, every time I reload a particular gun (I'm blanking on the
name, but it's the automatic weapon collected from soldiers, which also
throws shells- in the same weapon category as the shotgun), the game freezes
with the sound echoing, I get the "should we send an error report to MS
message", and when I tell it no the game closes down.
I checked, and this *doesn't* happen in regular Half-Life.

Any clues? It's going to be a PIA to finish the game if I'm restricted to
the shotgun, the pistol, and the bee-thrower.

I seem to remember something about having to uninstall the Hi-def pack for this - but I could be
completely, utterly and totally wrong.

"Sionnach" <rhyfelwr@msn.com> wrote in message news:2j3j3kFtjru8U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> First, I should state that I've played the mod all the way through in the
> past with no problems that I can recall.
>
> I decided to re-play it a couple of days ago, and have gotten to the
> point - a bit after collecting Kate- where you have to shoot down a
> helicopter.
> All of a sudden, every time I reload a particular gun (I'm blanking on the
> name, but it's the automatic weapon collected from soldiers, which also
> throws shells- in the same weapon category as the shotgun), the game freezes
> with the sound echoing, I get the "should we send an error report to MS
> message", and when I tell it no the game closes down.
> I checked, and this *doesn't* happen in regular Half-Life.
>
> Any clues? It's going to be a PIA to finish the game if I'm restricted to
> the shotgun, the pistol, and the bee-thrower.
>
>

"Nick" <nick@yourstuff.com> wrote in message
news:1087218962.13703.0@sabbath.news.uk.clara.net. ..
> I seem to remember something about having to uninstall the Hi-def pack for
this - but I could be
> completely, utterly and totally wrong.

Hmmm. I can't remember if it's installed or not- I know I HAD it installed
at one point, but can't recall if it's been uninstalled since.
OTOH, if it were the hi-def pack, wouldn't the problem have been there for
the entire game, instead of hitting halfway through?

"sionnach" <rhyfelwr@msn.com> wrote
> OTOH, if it were the hi-def pack, wouldn't the problem have been there
for
> the entire game, instead of hitting halfway through?

Not necessarily. Sometimes problems don't occur until a certain action has
been triggered. Could be worth a look to see if you have it there and have
forgotten about it.
--
David
davidfirewater(a)hotmail.com

"David Firewater" <davidfirewater.spamtrap@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2j67ttFte0q2U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "sionnach" <rhyfelwr@msn.com> wrote
> > OTOH, if it were the hi-def pack, wouldn't the problem have been there
> for
> > the entire game, instead of hitting halfway through?
>
> Not necessarily. Sometimes problems don't occur until a certain action has
> been triggered. Could be worth a look to see if you have it there and have
> forgotten about it.

Sorry guys, my mistake - just found this in the ReadMe.htm:
Azure Sheep can be played with the Half-Life High Definition Pack installed but some models and
sounds from the Half-Life High Definition Pack aren't used in Azure Sheep.
So no dice, I'm afraid.

"Nick" wrote:

> Azure Sheep can be played with the Half-Life High Definition Pack
installed but some models and
> sounds from the Half-Life High Definition Pack aren't used in Azure
>Sheep.

Sigh. I was afraid that was too easy a solution...
At this point, I've given up and gone on with the game, but since I'm
limited to the bee gun, the six-shooter, and the shotgun I'm being forced to
go into God mode to get through some of the maps. :-P