Crash

[RaGe]

This is my error I keep getting when CS crashes. I'm lucky if I get this message honetstly, most of the time video locks up with this purple haze around everything and all blotchy. Nothing works and I have to restart pc to get it back under my control. Really sux when ur in the middle of playing.

I forget who I was talkin to on vent but i was tellin them bout this and they said post up the error. so Here it is.. any help would be gr8!!

[MR|337]

Youre running Source in Dx8, huh? Theres part of your problem.

[RaGe]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/RaGe517/dxdiag.jpg
^I am running vista and i'm running DX10

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/RaGe517/CS-DX.jpg
^In CSS it says DX9

if its in DX8 idk why

I just set the command line to force DX90. guess i'll see if that helps. I also increased my heapsize to 1024000 which is 1/2 my ram. I had to force my 16:10 1680x1050 in the command line as well cause it kept going to like 4:3 600x400 or something like that.

Hope it fixes it!

[Video_Master]

strange issues.  I have no problems and I do not force it to run in DX9.  I just installed the latest version and steam did the rest.  I did change the resolution to 16:10 and 2560x1600 and it does not change it on me.  I would suggest uninstalling all the games and then uninstall steam.  Then power off the computer and then power on and then download the newest version of steam and then download the games.

[MR|337]

That makes sense. If you didnt force it to run in DX8, it should default to the hardware specs. We three run vista, I've had no issues like that so? I'd go with VM suggestion.

[Hitman Smurf]

I think Video Master is right. If you run your game in a lower dxlevel you should have no problems but if they persist I'd do as Video says.

[WidowMaker]

Sure just what I want to do. Sit around and wait to download 10 gigs or so of gaming content again. Fuck that. Pretty much one of the reasons I have not redone my PC in a few years.

Widow

[snyper133]

I would make sure you have the Direct X version set to 9.0.c that could be causing the issues. Vista does not nativley support DX9 therefore, I don't believe DX8 will run correctly in Vista. Next make sure you have newest drivers and hotfixes.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

*It links to nVidia but the hotfixes pertain to Vista*

[Hitman Smurf]

Found the exact answer to your question from Steam support:

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=420&p_created=1134689595&p_sid=gPyl-YUi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTUmcF9wcm9kcz00NTgmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PTEuNDU4OzIudTAmcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1

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