Half Life 2 Survivor language issue

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Hey all, apologies if this is in the wrong place or inappropriate (mods please delete if necessary). Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue with half life survivor. Whenever i run it, it seems to change my steam language in the registry to Japanese. Running it with gameloader all, as this was the only way i can get it to run full screen properly. Had a pretty serious look through both the gameloader files and the hl2 files to try and find the culprit, but was unsuccessful. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has been beating my brains out for some time now. Cheers.