Same here, at this point even though I have been enjoying the game I will have to stop playing because of this game crashing bug.

Found a "fix", if you turn cheats on, then enable "notarget" you can make your way through the level.

Is there a normal fix for this or is it still the enable cheat method?

Actually, just tired this and it still crashes... I have a screen shot if someone wants to see it... https://joeman1.com/images/bms_linux_error.png

only thing worked for me is running the game from its folder through the terminal using ./bms.sh

i hope it works for you

Anyone find an actual fix for this yet? Issue still occurs.

Same here. Can't progress. I really don't want to turn on cheats and screw around just to get past that point. A real fix would be much appreciated.

Oddly enough a day after posting this I found a possible workaround, one that worked for me anyways.

I loaded my save to the one just prior to exiting the elevator (I had a save that was made whilst riding it down, but I presume any prior save may possibly work).

It's worth a shot, at least.

I have the same issue, so I guess it is more common.

Interesting, I had the same crash ("IVP failed ...") at the same place a couple of days back as well, but I just restarted the game and was able to move on without it happening again.

In fact, I already had encountered that same crash somewhere halfway Surface Tension, during the battle right after when you drop down from the building with all the military, which in turn was right after you meet that guard with the huge weapn stash ("I can see you have a taste for the finer things in life.") Crash happend when I accidentally fired a rocket from close range at something. Also happened only once. Here's a screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1961945037

Radeon R9 Nano, Mesa 19.3.0, Slackware 14.2, kernel 5.4.something.

same here, and still crashes

Lambda core, same issue with the houndeyes, I've already tried multiple solutions without getting a good workaround.
The last thing I've tried was to put several explosive backpacks where I know that the houndeyes will stop, then click and... the game still crashes but with a good explosion this time.

I think that this is related to this alien dogs only.

Issue still occurs. I found a workaround though. I've noticed that this always happens when you face multiple houndeyes and kill them with one shot of a shotgun. I tried to dash past them and fight them one at a time. Now I'm no longer stuck and can proceed with the game.

Games crashes for me as well right behind the elevator.
I turn left and the Houndeyes are spawning a short fight and then crash with the same error.
Running on Gentoo with Nvidia closed source drivers.

Still actual...
But there is another workaround: its possible to kill houndeyes by hivehand, without alerting them, so there would be no ambush and hence no crash.

Hello community! I faced the same issue while playing Black Mesa tonight (In Lambda Main Core). Anyway, after some research I did, In some very surprising way for me, I came to a possible solution to the problem. The problem is in OpenAL library, or rather in his absence (check WIKI if you don't know what it is). All of user-friendly linux distros should have the OpenAL library fully installed, not partially, as far as I know...

So, you should just check if it works for you. Install these packages using package manager you have on your distro (I have pacman, cuz I'm using Arch-based distro): openal and lib32-openal

And yeah, the same thing goes for Windows. You probably should have OpenAL installed, cuz it might save your time.

I hope this will help you. Good luck!

I'm using HP Laptop with Manjaro linux installed (Ryzen 5 4600H, GeForce GTX 1650 Ti)

(https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft)