LoadBlob.cpp NULL!=hmoduleT Created 5 months ago2023-11-26 09:00:40 UTC by tschumann

I know this is due to the 25th anniversary update but my mod is still failing to launch with this error and I'm not really sure what the cause is. I thought the last patch fixed most mods not launching.

I've tried disabling the Steam API and all the external .dll files I'm loading but no luck. Source code is at https://github.com/tschumann/basis if that helps. The issue is somewhere in client.dll anyway - if I get rid of my client.dll the game reaches the main menu.

Does this happen with the latest update? It looks like they've disabled asserts so this shouldn't happen anymore.

Regardless, the probable reason for this is the secure client code: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/1893

Secure clients were once encrypted blobs which is why the error mentions LoadBlob.cpp. If they get rid of the redundant load calls this problem should be solved altogether, but it appears the asserts are already disabled so it shouldn't happen anymore.

Yeah it was still happening with the latest update, but I figured it out.

I hadn't quite disabled all the external .dll files - I was still linking steam_api.lib which seems to run some code automatically, and apparently Half-Life updated the version of the Steamworks SDK it was using. Previously it was using 1.42 but as of the these recent changes, it's now using 1.53a (which is still somewhat old).