Pc Crashing

[blackcat]

I need some help, my video card plays great on all the installed games I have except for left for dead 2, which plays thru stream. I can go in and within a few mins, my monitor goes to sleep and the sound loops. I tried new drivers didn't help it. Anyone have any suggustions.

[Joe Canadian]

What video card do you have cat, and what version of windows are you running

[Twinkie 13]

Hey Cat. Tell me the video card that you have. one cause could be that the card ramps up and pulls more power than the power supply can deliver. I think the one i put in that computer is a 500 watt. That should be enough but some of the newer video cards are pretty power hungry. If you want to skype me any time we can try to figure this out. Just let me know. ill be searching for other solutions till i hear from you.

[BoomSlang]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1814982

 

This worked for this guy

[Damage_inc-]

http://forums.steamp...d.php?t=1814982

 

This worked for this guy

 

BRILLIANT FIND...IVE HAD THIS HAPPEN AS WELL..

[Labob]

LOL there's a steamy bug Boom has been awarded the problem solved award now he's as smart as 2manybeers -

[blackcat]

Ultra Overclock Edition Radeon HD 7770 , windows 7 64 bit power supply is 650 watts

 

I don't even get to play it for 20 mins, lol in reply to the fix above, I go in the game and within a couple of mins, monitor goes to sleep and the sound loops. I have to hold the button in to shut the pc down. Other games are played on this pc. I let my daughter play some of hers. She plays dishonored and skyrim which are both fairly new games with no problems, I play cod2, cod4 and waw and have no problems . I can't figure out why left for dead 2 is the only one that it does it to.

Edited December 29, 2012 by blackcat

[KaptCrunch]

Even on the High performance power plan the monitor is still set to hibernate after 20 minutes. Go to Control Panel->Power Options' date=' click Change plan settings, and change Turn off the display: to Never. The hard drive is also set to turn off after 20 minutes of inactivity, though this should not occur while gaming. This setting is in advanced power settings. [/quote']

 

yes even way back to win95 days

 

 

Kat

are using the amd Catalyst™ Control Center it don't allow you to adjust fan speed use MSI Afterburner app to control gpu fan

[fireurza]

run a stress test on your system.... doing that will tell us if its power supply or heat.

[blackcat]

it was and still is set on balanced, but I changed one setting to never, the hard drive and monitor were already set on never.

[KaptCrunch]

have tried amd profiles for games settings

 

another question Kat what is your motherboard model and its revision to check if have current firmware for MB

 

sometime bios needs a update for other hardware on system

 

to check: the box MB came in the sticker on box

 

or cold boot bios screen should show bios version

 

or use CPU-Z to id your hardware if can't get info

Edited December 29, 2012 by KaptCrunch

[blackcat]

I installed it, what do I do with it now?

[BigPapaDean]

http://forums.steamp...d.php?t=1814982

 

This worked for this guy

I have had mine set this way for years. The thought that sleeping saves power is a myth. I always found that when it was asleep it was very difficult to wake!

[KaptCrunch]

oops that for if using crossfire (2 same GPU's linked) thought it was for game profiles like i have for Nvidia

 

get on TS an we chat also have steam verifi your game

[FiShMaN]

try verifying the game cache in games/right click on l4d2/propeties/verify game cache

then open console and put this (you can try after verifying see if that fixed it) and wait it takes about 15 mins

snd_rebuildaudiocache;snd_updateaudiocache;exit

Edited December 29, 2012 by FiShMaN

[KaptCrunch]

try verifying the game cache in games/right click on l4d2/propeties/verify game cache

then open console and put this (you can try after verifying see if that fixed it) and wait it takes about 15 mins

snd_rebuildaudiocache;snd_updateaudiocache;exit

 

yes any steam game with issues do that for it fixed Kat's issue is solved

[Twinkie 13]

If all else fails uninstall and reinstall the game

[blackcat]

Thanks KaptCrunch and everyone !