Steam games crashing

[HpA]SniperPotato · Post by **[HpA]SniperPotato** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:42 pm

Whenever I try to play old steam games like Day of Defeat 1.3 and CS 1.6 they crash. I load up a server and when it gets to the point ewhere it "verifies blah blah" it crashes to desktop. It makes an error log like this

Error:Failed to load dialog file Resource/UI/ClassMenu.res

Function trace:
CFileSystem_Steam::Mount()

I've looked on the intarveb and haven't found anything that helps.

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:52 pm

you're fucked

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:55 pm

When I play HL2: episode one I get a lockup with looping sound every 20 minutes or so. I end up having to restart my computer. Vavles advice? Update your drivers and if that doesn't work turn off your sound.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:13 pm

They sure know how to make games, those boys.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:37 pm

Play Cave Story.

[HpA]SniperPotato · Post by **[HpA]SniperPotato** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:40 am

No seriosuly, what the fuck do I do? I reformatted the other day and redownloaded the games. Since then it's been happening. Before the reformat they games never crashed.

All my drivers are updated and so on. Maybe it's because I downloaded Microsoft SP2?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:13 am

Maybe it is due to your poor taste ?

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:02 am

Have you tried that help thingy at Steampowered?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:42 pm

UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL BUMP BUMP

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:50 pm

Here's the fix:

There's nothing you can do. The Source engine is shit and every update seems to further destabilize it. After a few patches I started to get stuttering and the occasional lockup with bluescreen. This happens because Valve tells Half Life 2 and other Source engine games to load textures, scripted events, and everything on the fly. The intent was to shorten the already excessive load times. With little to no precaching things fuck up. There are ways to force it through Steam, but this hardly works.

If older games on Steam are crashing I'd say it's a memory problem like the one above, but more likely the fault of your own computer. You need at least 1-2 Gigs of ram to make any use of it. Unfortunately no amount of money spent on upgrades can counter Valve's piss poor programming skills.

[HpA]SniperPotato · Post by **[HpA]SniperPotato** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:45 pm

I have 1 gig of RAM. I'm going to blame it on the latest Steam update.

Aegeri · Post by **Aegeri** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:55 am

[HpA]SniperPotato wrote:No seriosuly, what the fuck do I do? I reformatted the other day and redownloaded the games. Since then it's been happening. Before the reformat they games never crashed.

All my drivers are updated and so on. Maybe it's because I downloaded Microsoft SP2?

Another thing to try and I know this won't help you much [see the post from Mad Max really] but defrag every time steam updates a game or similar. Defragging can make a big difference to how steam games perform, because they try to do wierd things like load shit on the fly and send lots of stuff back over the internet [even if you aren't aware of this]. Defragging can help that quite a bit. Further, play in offline mode for single player as this stops it transmitting data, which can decrease the amount of seemingly inexplicable stuttering you can get after doing certain things.