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Problems with Steam apps
ViaosHK56
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I've noticed that any Steam application seems to go haywire on my PC. Any other applications/games run just fine, yet Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Half Life, Portal... Any of those seems to have massive glitches or crash my computer. As far as computer specs go, I have a GeForce 8800 GT card, 3gbs of ram and a 1.8ghz Dual Core Pentium. I would give a few guesses such as processor bottlenecking the video card or overheating, but the fact that everything else runs fine leads me to believe it's a problem with the Steam client itself. Any thoughts on how to fix this would be nice.
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Specifically --
What glitches?
When does it happen?
How does it crash?
Do you receieve any error messages?
What type of crash? (to desktop, computer shutdown, etc.)
How often?
EDIT: Does it only occur with those Source games you mention, or any game that utilizes the Steam overlay?
Well, stuff such as taking about 2-3 minutes on the "Preparing to Launch Team Fortress 2"
Alt tabbing around 10 times before going to the TF2 main menu (And by alt tabbing, I mean switching between a black screen and the desktop)
Running the game fine for about 20 minutes, then the frame rate and the sound will become choppy or laggy.
When does it happen?
Everytime I open any Steam program from the Steam menu.
How does it crash?
Completely locks the program down.
Do you receieve any error messages?
No messages of any kind.
What type of crash? (to desktop, computer shutdown, etc.)
Crashes to the desktop, unless it freezes my computer completely.
How often?
It'll crash anytime I try and close the program or about 15-20 minutes into the game I'm trying to play.
It starts going about 9-10FPS and the sound also slows down, right? Instead of just locking it down completely, or does it outright freeze?
Both, it'll do the slowing down first. And then it will out right stop.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
It is, but the problem was actually something with Steam games.
The fix was to set the refresh rate to 100hz and it's working great now (from what I hear).
Also possibly the in-game overlay.