diff --git a/src/core/overwrite_dlopen.cpp b/src/core/overwrite_dlopen.cpp
index 61d9251e..9a6d3244 100644
--- a/src/core/overwrite_dlopen.cpp
+++ b/src/core/overwrite_dlopen.cpp
@@ -2,21 +2,25 @@
 
 // This is specifically for preload, and removes the source lock from the launcher. The only other way is bytepatching hl2_linux directly...
 typedef void *(*dlopen_t)(const char *__file, int __mode);
-void *dlopen(const char *__file, int __mode) noexcept(true)
+void *dlopen(const char *__file, int __mode) __THROWNL
 {
     dlopen_t dlopen_fn = (dlopen_t) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "dlopen");
-    auto ret           = dlopen_fn(__file, __mode);
+
+    auto ret = dlopen_fn(__file, __mode);
+    if (!__file)
+        return ret;
+
     if (!strcmp(__file, "bin/launcher.so"))
     {
         logging::Info("Intercepted launcher.so");
         logging::Info("Waiting for cathook to load Launcher symbols...");
         while (sharedobj::launcher().lmap == nullptr)
-            usleep(10);
+            usleep(1);
         logging::Info("Loaded Launcher symbols");
         static uintptr_t launcher_sig      = gSignatures.GetLauncherSignature("55 89 E5 56 53 8D 9D ? ? ? ? 81 EC A0 00 00 00");
         static BytePatch LauncherBytePatch = BytePatch(launcher_sig, { 0xB8, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xC3 });
         LauncherBytePatch.Patch();
-        logging::Info("Removed source lock");
+        logging::Info("Removed source lock %d", errno);
     }
     return ret;
 }
diff --git a/src/hack.cpp b/src/hack.cpp
index 36d83b37..5c455918 100644
--- a/src/hack.cpp
+++ b/src/hack.cpp
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ free(logname);*/
 #if ENABLE_TEXTMODE
     static BytePatch patch(gSignatures.GetEngineSignature, "74 ? 89 5C 24 ? 8D 9D ? ? ? ? 89 74 24", 0, { 0x71 });
     patch.Patch();
+
+    // Remove intro video which also causes some crashes
+    static BytePatch patch_intro_video(gSignatures.GetEngineSignature, "55 89 E5 57 56 53 83 EC 5C 8B 5D ? 8B 55", 0x9, { 0x83, 0xc4, 0x5c, 0x5b, 0x5e, 0x5f, 0x5d, 0xc3 });
+    patch_intro_video.Patch();
 #endif
 
     CreateEarlyInterfaces();