awuwish October 19, 2012 Share awuwish Member October 19, 2012 (edited) Out of what will likely be branded stupidity, I decided to wipe out my hard drive and install Windows 8 (not pirated, available through technet). Everything installed fine; restored all my games from backup with no issue. Go to play L4D2 and it loads alright, though it doesn't pull down my settings from Steam Cloud. Whatever, I'll just go through and change the resolution back and eventually have to rebind all my keys. I change the resolution, then the game crashes. I try to open it back up, crashes within 5 seconds. I've tried deleting and redownloading, but it doesn't work. What's odd is that it does work if run as admin from the .exe in the Steam folder; however, it then tells you you're using the -insecure option, and will be booted from VAC games. So a fair warning: if you were/are planning on upgrading to Windows 8, probably best to hold out until it's verfied that L4D2 works on it. Luckily I made an image of my hard drive before nuking, so I may just reload that to be able to play...or use a Win 7 vm I already have set up. Update: GameTracker was causing the crashes, not the games or the hl2 engine. Edited October 19, 2012 by Flitterkill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuma October 19, 2012 Share Kuma Member October 19, 2012 I didn't find much but try with this : http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2577430 Someone on 2nd page said he had more luck with 32bit version than 64bit version, which it crashed a lot for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awuwish October 19, 2012 Author Share awuwish Member October 19, 2012 Pretty much all that's in there I've tried. Through some troubleshooting, and going through Application logs in the Event Viewer, it seems it may have something to do with a hook dll for the GameTracker app. I typically use it to join the gc server, though I suppose I could use the console connect command. I was having some crashes happen in TF2, almost exactly like in L4D2 (assuming it's the hl2 engine, not the games specifically). I closed out of the GameTracker app, and TF2 booted back with no issue. Now downloading L4D2 again to see if that indeed fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awuwish October 19, 2012 Author Share awuwish Member October 19, 2012 Seems that it was in fact the GameTracker app causing the crashes. The more you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan October 19, 2012 Share JackieChan GC Alumni October 19, 2012 1. open console 2. type "connect l4d.gcftw.com" 3. ??? 4. profit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude October 19, 2012 Share TheDude Member October 19, 2012 1. open console 2. type "connect l4d.gcftw.com" 3. ??? 4. profit I have to ask: I see those "???" things everywhere in youtube comment sections but WHAT DO THEY MEAN?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan October 19, 2012 Share JackieChan GC Alumni October 19, 2012 It's from South Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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