Steam/windows8 issue :(

shephga · 13 Oct 2013 at 10:15

Hello,

Anyone seen this before please ? Occasionally when I start a game using steam it will instantly kill all video output. The game continues to run in the background as I can hear the game audio. I can alt-f4 the game, keyboard lights function etc but nothing other than rebooting the pc will restore video output. Same games, same pc work fine on the windows7 install I have, just seems to be something unique to windows8.

Any ideas please ? Am running the latest nvidia drivers and windows8 is patched up in prep for 8.1 .

Cheers

Komedy · 13 Oct 2013 at 10:56

running W8 here and no issues

apatia77 · 13 Oct 2013 at 15:59

Never had any issues with Win8 and Steam, not even once. Must be something on your pc.

Start with reinstalling steam and video drivers.

Witcher1979 · 13 Oct 2013 at 17:49

Same, win 8 and no issues so can't help sorry

wnb · 13 Oct 2013 at 20:14

I have Win8 and no issues with steam. My only gripe would be that steam can be slow compared to the website.

DJMONDY · 14 Oct 2013 at 00:38

I had constant issues with steam and windows 8, Game crashes mainly so i went back to windows 7 and all was good again.

window · 14 Oct 2013 at 01:50

I have had an issue where i cannot get video output from sleep. Monitor comes on but just black screen with only reboot solution.

Maybe they're related. Ill keep watching thread.