CS:S Launch Problem

[tinkerbell]

ive updated my video card driver yesterday, and now my css wont launch correctly.
it says loading with the blurry background, but then nothing else.

first i restarted steam - nothing
restarted comp - nothing
deleted clientregistery.blog file - nothing
deleted user in the cgf folder - nothing
deleted settings in the cgf folder - nothing
then i put in -dxlevel 95 in the advanced launch options then it loaded, but with the default settings, non of my controls were saved, so i changed them, saved them. next time i started css without -dxlevel 95 in the launch options and it was the original problem over again.
so put back in -dxlevel 95 and worked but like i said before it loaded with default settings.


any suggestions????

[Jazzyy]

wait, which drivers? was it the newest nvidia ones? I've been having MASSIVE problems with the newest ones. and the newest beta ones.

[tinkerbell]

wait, which drivers? was it the newest nvidia ones? I've been having MASSIVE problems with the newest ones. and the newest beta ones.

yeah, the most recent one, all my other games are uneffect as far i know about it.

[Jazzyy]

yeah, the most recent one, all my other games are uneffect as far i know about it.

Well, I downloaded the new ones, Gmod quit working so i reverted to 190.##, then when i got shattered horizon I had to upgrade, so i upgraded back to the newest ones, they were still broke, so i went to the beta, broke. I'm at 191.26 at the minute, try those.

Also yeah, the newest ones only fucked up gmod, not cs:s or any other source game. Heck, it might be a fault with Source itself, who the fuck knows with nvidia. All i know is downloading 4 100mb drivers is fucking annoying as shit.

[tinkerbell]

fixed.

winSharp93



Join Date: Oct 2009
Reputation: 0
Posts: 4 Workaround

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This bug seems to affect multimonitor systems under Windows 7 only.

The following workaround works fine for me:
- Navigate to your SteamApps folder (usually "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\[Username]\counter-strike source")
- Right click the "hl2.exe"
- On the compatibility tab check the checkbox "Disable Desktop composition" and apply the changes
- Now start CSS as usual

I wrote to the support, too. They, however, don't seem to be interested in solving this problem.
According to them, they DO support Windows 7.

[Jazzyy]

fixed.

thatdoesn't seem right, i use to use multi monitors and play cs:s perfectly fine :?

[tinkerbell]

same here, but fuck knows, it works