L4D ate my video card drivers...

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

For whatever reason when I load and quit L4d I get some catastrophic failure of my video card drivers. I have yet to actually try playing L4D but if just loading and quitting it makes me need to re-start my computer I am afraid to...

[||§§||dkadar]

i hope it doesnt do anything drastic or bad to your vid card. cuz if that happened u wouldnt be able to play cod4 or anything with the rest of us. hope things get better for u.

[||§§||Dr.H]

Well that's an odd issue.. could be that the specific demand that L4D put on the video card or the driver caused the issue, could be a combination of things or programs. I know that programs totally unrelated to my video system have messed it up before.

Looks like it's times to update your driver or roll back.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

My video card drivers were updated not that long ago so I thought that may be the problem. I've also had a problem in the past where Ituneshelper.exe would make source games not work. I didn't want to mess with the new drivers and ituneshelper wasn't running but I got another idea. Once I turned off my 2nd monitor I was able to load, play and quit L4D. It took a few tries to actually get it to play seeing as it wanted to crash a few times (not a video issue though) before letting me and postal run through a campaign.

[||§§||GhostDog]

Could it be a power issue with your video card driving two monitors at the same time?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Could it be a power issue with your video card driving two monitors at the same time?

The video card was built to support two monitors so I don't see any issue with that. There could be a problem with it being two CRT monitors run with an adapter and not an LCD with the DV input.

[||§§||GhostDog]

True, but if the card is damaged in anyway or if your power supply is starting to fail it may not be delivering enough power to run two devices at once. Could even be a bad monitor.

Just a thought.

[||§§||SharpY]

My video card drivers were updated not that long agoi dont have any more updates lawl, but run it to a cheap place or whatever or if u can inspect it for damage, and by cheap place i mean just for and inspection or the video card or power supply, also happened to my game consoles, try using that arisole air can shit 3-4$ it may be completely covered inside the power supply, opening the case of the power supply and baby wipes or a wet wipe to clean it may help the slightest. check to see if theres a sopt on your card hat should have something there or a bent "Product" or piece and if bent push up sraight and in (worked for a usb card ad when working on a old pc" i would try the air/bent stuffbefore inspec shit

i am not 100 about the air/ bent stuff, but it cnt hurt if it doesnt so.. :p

[||§§||Kit]

You know my computer starts to run REALLY hot when I've played l4d. I don't think that's a good thing...

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

I've figured it out, source doesn't like my duel monitors. I just shut the other one off to play L4D or CSS. As long as COD4 work just fine with it I don't care, I play that more often anyway.

Some games do not like crossfire. I've had problems with my crossfired radeons will have graphical issues. Mostly it's older games that do not need the extra power anyway so it's not an issue to turn it off.