Source games crashing

Steveo1982 · 4 May 2010 at 16:20

Hi guys,

A friend of mine has just bought a brand new pc and bought a few source based games before it arrived. The games he bought were the orange box and left 4 dead 2.

When he starts the games it gets as far as the "powered by source" logo and thats it. The program crashes back to desktop.

He is running an nvidia geforce 60. Has uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled the latest ones but still gives the same issues.

Has anyone else had this problem. It only effects source based games as anything else runs fine.

Thanks
Steveo

Steveo1982 · 4 May 2010 at 19:25

Sorry guys about the mistype. Its a geforce 240 1gb and is running windows 7 pro 64bit. CPU is an I7 @ 2.8ghz, 8 gig of ddr3 ram.

Dawn of war 2 and mass effect 2 are two of the other games that work fine.

Update - Portal and HL2 work fine its just left 4 dead 2 that is now crashing.

Steveo1982 · 5 May 2010 at 11:21

kylew said:
I'm gonna assume a GTX 260?

Its a GTS 240 mate. Though it was originally a 260.

Steveo1982 · 5 May 2010 at 11:48

Thanks Delboy.

I have forwarded the list onto my friend so im hoping that one of those will fix it for him.

Steveo1982 · 5 May 2010 at 15:32

You think it could be worth trying an alternative graphics card incase its that causing it ? Only problem is cos the pc is shop bought it may mess up his warrenty.

Steveo1982 · 6 May 2010 at 09:03

Ok its now finally working. Ran the verify cache 5 times and on the last attempt it found a bad file and then replaced it.

Started the game and now works fine and managed to play through dead centre with him all the way through without any further issues.

Thanks all for the advice!