kyle1337

Thanks for all the effort zero hour, One suggestion i came across was to revert back to an older display driver. The consensus seems to be that the problem occurs because of a lack of quality with nvidia's new drivers. What is your opinion on going back to an old driver? good idea? bad idea? and why? Thanks again for all your help, I am just about to try your fixes and will let you know if they work. Regards, Kyle

Update: I reinstalled the latest nvidia driver as well as turned off the sound card and still no luck. From what i read the issue with that error message has to do with the latest driver for nvidia. Unfortunately I could not find a fix. Hope you can figure something out. Thanks again, Kyle

I checked the event viewer and the only error that seemed pertinent and was logged on a recurring basis (i tried to get the game working a number of times) was the following: "The NVIDIA Display Driver Service service has reported an invalid current state 32" I am just about to try turning off my sound card but after seeing these recurring errors i wanted to post this immediately. Thanks, Kyle

Hey Zero Hour, First let me thank you for taking an interest in my problem. I have checked, and yes, both my graphics card and sound card drivers have been updated to the latest version. The sound card I have is a Realtek AC'97 Audio I do not see any kind of error message whatsoever. The desktop simply appears immediately without any error messages. I checked my card settings in the Nvidia control panel. I am running a nvidia 8800 gts graphics card along with two hard drives. One of which was installed recently. I hope this helps you narrow down a fix Thanks again for all your help, Kyle

Hi zero hour, You seem like you know what your talking about and I was hoping you might be able to give my problem a try. I have l4d2 installed on windows 7 32 bit. It had been running perfectly for quite some time until a few weeks ago when it started crashing whenever I got into gameplay. I tried your fix but unfortunately no luck. The crash happens the same way every time. I start l4d2, the opening cinematic and the menu interface work perfectly. I join a lobby and again everything is normal. The level/server loads and the opening cinematic renders perfectly. Everything continues as always except that once the game goes into gameplay (first person), the game shuts down immediately and goes directly back to windows. There is no lagging of any kind, the game simply turns off and returns to windows. Now after reading some articles and posts on the internet, some people think it may be a hardware issue. However, I am still able to run Day of Defeat perfectly while simultaneously running a movie on my second screen. To me this would indicate that my computer hardware is not the problem. Presumably if it were a hardware issue my computer would not be able to handle other similar tasks. I have checked my graphics cards settings and all of the settings are on default. I'm stumped and I would love if you could give me a hand. One final note, I pre-purchased the game and on the night it was released there was issues with running it. Someone posted a quick fix by changing the name of a file. I used it and the game worked fine. Not sure if my problems are related to that but i thought I would give you all the relevant information. Thanks for your consideration