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    External Monitor Crash with certain steam games

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by revdiesel, Oct 8, 2010.

  1. revdiesel

    revdiesel Notebook Evangelist

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    Everytime I try to play counter strike/TF2/MW2 on an external monitor it will act like i hit the windows button on the keyboard and exit it and cannot get back in it when i click it on the tab. For some reason the game gets half loaded on the external monitor then crashes and I cannot get it to play on it... I was curious if you have run into the same problem. I have tried setting the resolution to that of what I last played it on my m11x screen and no luck. I even tried running both the laptop monitor and external at the same time for the game but it loads the first few preview screens when u start the game but before the game menu it exits..
     
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    c4sc4 Notebook Consultant

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    I had the same thing happen to me but it randomly went away. I don't know how I fixed it but it might have been something to do with using Windows Key + P to choose the external display only instead of using Fn + F1.
     
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    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    This happens on my desktop, in ANY source-engine game. I have twin HD5870 crossfire for that.
     
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    ugh.. so no solution? MoH played fine
     
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    Bump. Someone has to know lol
     
    revdiesel, Oct 9, 2010
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