L4D2 Crashing

Hey guys, so I downloaded L4D2 and it keeps crashing when I start a game. I saw an earlier post about rolling back to the 257 drivers. I have the 266.58 version on my R2. However, before trying it I'd like to know if the 267.76 version fixes it or not.

Thanks

 

267.76 driver here. Logged about 7 hours on L4D2 without a crash. I rolled back from the new beta because of the immediate crashes.

 

Well the 267.76 drivers didn't make a difference here, and rolling back to factory drivers makes it unplayable. I'll keep looking for any solutions

EDIT: I'll give a brief description of my problem:
First, the shadows are a bit shiny ( ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting. Then about a minute later the game crashes and closes instantly. When I attack anything or anyone the game crashes as well. I verified the game cache 3 times and it still happens

 

Thats really odd because those are the problems with past drivers. Did you select "custom install" instead of "express" and then choose clean install?

 

Yeah I choose to clean install it, but the crash continued

EDIT: I was wondering, maybe changing something in the NVidia control panel will do? Like a small graphical change. I'll take a screenshot of my settings for L4D2 and send to see if there's anything different or wrong with it

 

Ok here are my settings in the nvidia control panel:


Ambient Occlusion - Off

Anisotropic Filtering - App. Controlled

Antialiasing - Gamma Correction - Off

Antialiasing Mode - App. Controlled

Antialiasing Setting - App. Controlled

Antialiasing Transparency - Off

CUDA GPUs - All

Maximum pre-rendered frames - 3

Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration - Single display performance mode

Power management mode - Prefer maximum performance

Texture filtering Anisotropic sample optimization - Off

Texture filtering Negative LOD bias - Allow

Texture filtering quality - Quality

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - On

Threaded optimization - Auto

Triple buffering - Off

Vertical sync - Use the 3D application setting

 

Edit: I just realized i dont have SP1 installed. Im going to see if that makes a difference.
Just to show you I'm using the same driver without a problem.

All settings are on medium

 

Check your in-game settings. If shaders are set to high or very high turn them to low see if that works

 

Wow that worked. Thanks a lot bro

 

If you want to run with high shaders you need 260.99. It stinks that nVidia haven't fixed that yet.

 

Turning the shaders down just feels like a hack to me. I guess it works. I had to keep rolling the damn things back to factory just to play. I haven't been playing much L4D2 because of Rift and the new beta drivers are working great there. Hopefully nVidia can get their crap together and put out a decent set of drivers that will fix the shader problem with L4D2

 

I am still using 260.99 and I can confirm that I am running it with Very High Shaders. It has never crashed for me and I play it all the time at both 1366x768 and 1920x1080.

 

No problem glad I could help! Yes, I can also confirm L4D2 works with very high shaders on 260.99 too lazy to switch back since I've been playing a lot more SC2

 

though 260.99 + alienware command center + SP1 = broken.

 

Sorry, I am not exactly clear on what you are trying to say.

I have 260.99 on my i5 R2, with the updated command centre and I have SP1. I have overclocked to 166MHz and am using ThrottleStop. I have not overclocked the video card. My M11xR2 has never crashed... are you experiencing something different?

Cheers,
Stain

 

not crashing but there's an compatibility issue with the alienware command center and the 260.99 drivers if SP1 is installed.

 

On my desktop I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest nVidia drivers with a GTX 570 and the game runs fine with everything maxed out but on my m17x R3 I too have the shader problem...

 

I'm using an Asus A42JV with a Nvidia 335M and I have the same problems with the Nvidia 266.58 driver. I can also confirm earlier drivers did not have the high shader crashing problem with L4D2. However I can't roll back to older drivers. If I do, I won't be able to play Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer because the Punkbuster has issues with older drivers.