Left 4 Dead 2 Crash To Desktop

[Overslop]

Anyone know a solution to this?

Started playing the DLC campaign tonight, having not touched the game since playing through all the standard campaigns some months ago. It's happened twice at seemingly random points.

Have just verified the integrity of the game cache and defragmented it, the problem is still persisting. All other games and applications I have installed work perfectly.

 

[The Funktopus]

I don't why but I find a game called Left 4 Dead crashing so profoundly ironic....

 

[kylew]

Go in to the Steam>Steamapps folder and delete these two files "left 4 dead 2 client.ncf" and "left 4 dead 2 common.ncf" then relaunch the game.

 

[Overslop]

Thanks for the suggestion kylew but I ran the "verify integrity of game cache" again and this time it found 4 corrupt files. It proceeded to download over 400MB of replacement files and now all is good.

Strange that it had to be run twice, no?

 

[linktoinsanity]

I had CTD after the previous update, but the latest one seems to have fixed it again. So maybe your installation hadn't updated properly.