Left 4 Dead 2 Windows 7 Crash...

RoEy

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Hi all,

Got l4d 2 the other day and it all installed fine. Played single player for an hour and again was fine. As soon as I went online with it, it crashed. I couldnt do anything but manually reboot the system.

Its done it 3 times now and Ive disabled multi core in the options but has no effect. My PC has never crashed before since I've had Windows 7 on launch day so it must be the game causing it.

Anyone else had this, know of a fix?

Thanks,

RoEy
 
Yes, My friend has had the game since day 1, only this evening did he finally manage to play through an entire campaign without a crash (same as you, requires a reboot as the system locks).

His rig is a very common setup too, asus p5q mobo, corsair ram, WD HDD, q6600, 8800gt and Vista x64.

It doesn't happen in any games other than L4D 1+2. Overclocked or not. No amount of driver combinations work either. The crash doesn't seem to leave any logs. It's not overheating or weak PSU either.

Basically we've tried everything to sort it and nothing works. The only thing that helps seems to be setting sound quality to low and minimising explosions, though we're not sure if there's a logical basis to this or if it's just become superstition after a year of trying to figure it out. Oh. and even though these actions seems to hint to it being sound related we've tried on board and 3 other sound cards to no avail.
 
Geckovich said:
Yes, My friend has had the game since day 1, only this evening did he finally manage to play through an entire campaign without a crash (same as you, requires a reboot as the system locks).

His rig is a very common setup too, asus p5q mobo, corsair ram, WD HDD, q6600, 8800gt and Vista x64.

It doesn't happen in any games other than L4D 1+2. Overclocked or not. No amount of driver combinations work either. The crash doesn't seem to leave any logs. It's not overheating or weak PSU either.

Basically we've tried everything to sort it and nothing works. The only thing that helps seems to be setting sound quality to low and minimising explosions, though we're not sure if there's a logical basis to this or if it's just become superstition after a year of trying to figure it out. Oh. and even though these actions seems to hint to it being sound related we've tried on board and 3 other sound cards to no avail.
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Jesus... Wish I had'nt bought it now. I'll have a good read on the steam forums and see if that helps.

I did use the mat_queue_mode 0 in console and I tried it for 5 mins online and it didnt crash. Might have helped.

RoEy
 
I run mine in "Windowed Mode with no borders" and it fixed all crashes and slow FPS issues for me. Give it a go (you change it from the graphcis menu in game)
 
Eulogy said:
I run mine in "Windowed Mode with no borders" and it fixed all crashes and slow FPS issues for me. Give it a go (you change it from the graphcis menu in game)
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Cheers mate. I'll try that tonight.

RoEy
 
I didn't have any crashes but I had a weird framerate bug on windows 7 x64, after playing for so long, it would start to get really choppy and just get worse and worse as I played.
All other games worked flawlessly but I've gone back to trusty old xp64 for now. Windows 7 is nice, it looks pretty and things happen faster but ... but I want to shoot zombies :(
 
Eulogy said:
I run mine in "Windowed Mode with no borders" and it fixed all crashes and slow FPS issues for me. Give it a go (you change it from the graphcis menu in game)
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Still been having problems with l4d2 but I tried what you said and its been fine ever since!

Thank you!

RoEy
 
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