Source Games Crash On Startup
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Hey all,
So I've been a CS player for a decade now, and have been extremely frustrated with recent developments.
When I play online, I can get in anywhere between 1 - 10 minutes of fun, and then it seems that my GPU crashes. The screen goes into a bunch or horizontal lines, and the last sound heard from the game loops over and over again. After trying to find an answer on the web, as well as repeated restarts, I feel that I am actually starting to go crazy.
I have reinstalled the game and Steam several times, from hdd to external drives; even to an ssd. All this to no avail.
My BIOS is up to date, as well as my drivers.
Yesterday, I was able to access my desktop during one of the many crashes I experienced, just in time to see a notification from my icon tray advising me that my video card driver had 'stopped working' and had successfully restored itself. This however, did not restore my game. It seems that the driver itself is crashing and this brings up many wtfs from me since I can easily play BF3 and MW3 online - at pimping resolutions - and *never* encounter any problems.
I've already emailed Steam 'support' and have not heard back from them.
My next step is to load up an older display driver for my GPU, to see if the problem is arising from a conflict between the latest AMD drivers and Counter Strike Source.
Meanwhile, I'm curious to know if anyone has had this issue, and if so, how they were able to fix it, if at all.
Not sure if my sig will show up so here are my related particulars:
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D-E Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67 GHz
HSF: Noctua NH-D14
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4 x 4Gb
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4670
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 500W
HDD1: Western Digital 120Gb 7200 rpm
HDD2: Western Digital Black 2Tb 7200 rpm
HDD3: IOmega 1Tb USB 3.0 External Drive
SSD: Kingston 64Gb SATA II 3Gb/s
ODD: Samsung SH-S222A
Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D
Monitors: Acer X233H / Acer AL1706
Speakers: Logitech Z640 5.1 Dolby Surround (mobo audio)
Keyboard: Corsair K60
Mouse: Corsair M60
OS: Windows 7 Home Ultimate SP1 (64 bit)
Thanks,
Buzz
***UPDATE***
Rolling back to a previous display driver did not work.
So I've been a CS player for a decade now, and have been extremely frustrated with recent developments.
When I play online, I can get in anywhere between 1 - 10 minutes of fun, and then it seems that my GPU crashes. The screen goes into a bunch or horizontal lines, and the last sound heard from the game loops over and over again. After trying to find an answer on the web, as well as repeated restarts, I feel that I am actually starting to go crazy.
I have reinstalled the game and Steam several times, from hdd to external drives; even to an ssd. All this to no avail.
My BIOS is up to date, as well as my drivers.
Yesterday, I was able to access my desktop during one of the many crashes I experienced, just in time to see a notification from my icon tray advising me that my video card driver had 'stopped working' and had successfully restored itself. This however, did not restore my game. It seems that the driver itself is crashing and this brings up many wtfs from me since I can easily play BF3 and MW3 online - at pimping resolutions - and *never* encounter any problems.
I've already emailed Steam 'support' and have not heard back from them.
My next step is to load up an older display driver for my GPU, to see if the problem is arising from a conflict between the latest AMD drivers and Counter Strike Source.
Meanwhile, I'm curious to know if anyone has had this issue, and if so, how they were able to fix it, if at all.
Not sure if my sig will show up so here are my related particulars:
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D-E Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67 GHz
HSF: Noctua NH-D14
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4 x 4Gb
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4670
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 500W
HDD1: Western Digital 120Gb 7200 rpm
HDD2: Western Digital Black 2Tb 7200 rpm
HDD3: IOmega 1Tb USB 3.0 External Drive
SSD: Kingston 64Gb SATA II 3Gb/s
ODD: Samsung SH-S222A
Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D
Monitors: Acer X233H / Acer AL1706
Speakers: Logitech Z640 5.1 Dolby Surround (mobo audio)
Keyboard: Corsair K60
Mouse: Corsair M60
OS: Windows 7 Home Ultimate SP1 (64 bit)
Thanks,
Buzz
***UPDATE***
Rolling back to a previous display driver did not work.
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