startin new thread cause i need some serious help

[lazarus]

okay...this is how far ive gotten.....

 

i can get in game by:

starting cs

i get to the screen with the two cs guys (no box with loading info)

crt-alt-del

restore cs window (but "loading box" is now BRIGHT neon green)

i can get in a game

but the screen to view all the players and kills and death

is also BRIGHT GREEN

 

so what do yall think

ever even heard of this problem?

 

i know yermother had the excact same problem, so if he could tell me how he fixed it

that would be awesome

Edited April 15, 2004 by lazarus

[flux]

i said try uninstalling everything steam related. then get a fresh new install from www.counter-strike.net and see what happens. let me know.

[lazarus]

okay, i did that and i got the same thing.

[Fatty]

Install it to a different directory...

 

Set your graphics to software and try it.

 

(these are only things I would try off the top of my head)

 

Send m0m an email, he may never see this....or PM him, or AIM him....

[Vain]

Let's try some simple stuff, check and see if you have more than one pair of drivers installed for your graphics card. If you only have one installed, check and see if it is the right type for your graphics card. Wether it is or not, uninstall it. Download the newest drivers you can find for your stuff and install them. It also might be your color depth or whatever it's called, 16-bit, 32-bit, hopefully you know what I mean.

Try this stuff and tell me what happens.

[Vain]

Also, if you have the newest drivers, try rolling back to some older versions, like one you can remember you had no problems with.

[flux]

also try a system restore to when it worked, if it did.

[lazarus]

thx for the help guys.

im gonna try all that stuff tonight.

 

ill let ya know what happens

[flux]

good luck.

[TeK]

Do you have an ATI card? CS has been known to have goofy graphics problems sometimes with ATI's and sometimes major fps drops. Maybe read up a bit on that if u have one.

[lazarus]

yeah i got the radeon 9600 xt

a small little breakthru, i have NOT done the driver sweep yet

but i did go into my cs settings and took fats advice

and i turned the video setting to software

and whammo, fixed, except that i get 30 fps and the video is terrible

the same thing with D3D video setting, i get the load screen great

BUT the video is really weird and lags.

 

does this help any with figuring out the problem?

[Fatty]

yes it does

 

it means the problem is originating with STEAM working with your video drivers.

 

So....do the driver sweep and find one that works. You should have access to all kinds of drivers from old to new.

[mrX]

I'd suggest the catalyst 4.1 or 4.4, but nothing in between those as the ones in between really screwed up playing any games for me for a bit. I tried the Omega drivers based on 4.3 (I think) and those didn't even work right. Not sure what was changed, but those in-between drivers just wouldn't work well on my system.

 

I'm running:

 

ATI 9800pro

P4 2.4

512 PC1066 RDRAM

Dell 8250 Series

 

After "upgrading" to 4.3 and trying the Omega drivers based on 4.3, my SWG was regularly dropping to under 5 FPS, even with all low settings, when previously I had it set to blended performance and was pegging the 29 FPS max for that game.

 

Fortunately, 4.4 seems to have fixed these issues. I manually removed the .infs and registry stuff, but people are having luck with driver cleaner, which is prolly easier.

[lazarus]

you guys are geniuses!

its up and working

now i just have to fix my ping

 

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