i need help

[caboos]

For some reason a couple of days ago all steam games stopped working on my computer, at random no new drivers no new programs just instantly stopped. What happens is whnever i jion a game after about 20 seconds the game crashes and has a error message that says this Internal driver error in IDirect3DDevice9::Present()

[Deadly]

To solve your problem you need to send me $100 and then i will .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .......................Think of something to fix that

[squerl]

Sounds like a video driver problem.. download new ones even if you have the latest and try to redownload DirectX 9.0c

[caboos]

i have many times. I have the newest of everything. and i want to be able to play L4D :(

[caboos]

i heard that this might help. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ .but i cant get to the downloads links. it says they all no longer exist should i continue to try to get this or will it probably not help

[caboos]

come on i really need help

[freakypred]

if all else fails, reinstall windows

[No Shelter]

I have the same problems. Do you by any chance have Windows XP Media Edition?

[Prometheus]

Google is your friend.

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7 2866 (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72866) -- Try some of the solutions on this thread and see if it helps.

[caboos]

Do you by any chance have Windows XP Media Edition?
yes and i hate it. im despretly hoping this means you have a answer

[squerl]

Easy answer - get home or professional edition :D

[caboos]

um ...i cant

[caboos]

media Edition is built into my laptop

[caboos]

Google is your friend.

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7 (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7) 2866 -- Try some of the solutions on this thread and see if it helps.

look at the last page i posted on this thread nothing helped.i couldn't try some of the answers

[No Shelter]

Yeah another guy on the steam forums had Media Center edition and has the same problem. I guess thats the problem.

Cause I have media center edition too.

[caboos]

fixed :) being a massive computer geek helps with thees kinda things

[Sandman77]

How u fix it? U pee on the laptop? ;)

[caboos]

How u fix it? U pee on the laptop? ;)
HOW DID YOU FIND OUT............. i mean, no..im just that smart

[No Shelter]

Wait tell me, cause I have the same problem!

[caboos]

lol
get the omega driver instead of the usual ones also test and tinker with your video card settings you learn alot about things that way, in the prosses of me becoming a computer genius i had to break 3 computers tinkering and testing just to learn about computers. but thats for the hardcore computer things so don't weary about changing a setting and seeing what happens :) this is one of those things were id need to personally use your computer to help

[No Shelter]

Tinker with my Video card settings? As in?

Can you tell me what omega driver you have and what graphic card, so maybe if you have the same you could give me a direct link.

[caboos]

ok :) don't get me wrong i want to help all i can

go to start go to Control Panel (if you haven't yet push Switch to Classic view on the left its much easier to work with) there should be a icon that is the symbol, of the kind of graphics card you have click that and look at the settings, change, experiment, tinker. ill post up a pic of mine for you just in case

i have a NVIDEA GEFORCE GO 7400


http://www.omegadrivers.net/

[caboos]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/caboos1/help.jpg

[No Shelter]

What did you do, by tinkering?

I have an Nvidia 7950 GT

Could you tell me some stuff to do and any of those Nvidia drivers are ok for it?

[caboos]

yours is newer im not quite shore how yours works

if you have any 3rd party graphics programs turn them off and if you see the nvidea symbol on thw quick launch bar on the bottom right of your screen rite click it and exit out of it

[No Shelter]

3rd party graphics programs? as in?

[Deadly]

one that came with your computer?

[caboos]

um if you downloaded a graphics enanser from a companie other than your graphics card or computer company

please pardon my spelling i haven't slept in days

[No Shelter]

No, I didn't.. well not that I know of.

When I install the omega drivers do I uninstall my other Nvidia ones first, restart then install.. or what?

[caboos]

um dont think so i just installed them. the thing that worked the best was closing the Nvidea symbol on the bottom right check that

[caboos]

damn the problem is back :(

[caboos]

the games no longer work at random i hate this, valve isn't even trying to fix this.

[No Shelter]

Its media center edition!

[Quotidius]

valve isn't even trying to fix this.

Ignorance is bliss, huh?

[Arkeneaver]

caboos... please say you have tried reinstalling DX9.... the video card drivers, and, lol, have you tried turning off your PC for 10 seconds, then rebooting it? lol XD.

Also, can you play other games of equal graphics quality. i.e. Batlefield 2 / 2142. Or an RTS which requires a bit more video memory?

[Arkeneaver]

and also.... do you use teamspeak? If so... do you have a headset plugged into your intergrated sound card? (the sound card in the motherboard)

[No Shelter]

I have the same problem and answer your Q's. Yes for the PC part. And yes for other part. I use TS but tried it with it off too. And its plugged into a hole in the back.

[caboos]

Ignorance is bliss, huh?
ya i was tired 3 days no sleep really messes with your emotions.lol

[caboos]

caboos... please say you have tried reinstalling DX9.... the video card drivers, and, lol, have you tried turning off your PC for 10 seconds, then rebooting it? lol XD.

Also, can you play other games of equal graphics quality. i.e. Batlefield 2 / 2142. Or an RTS which requires a bit more video memory?
yes i have done all those. and i can play company of hero's witch requires a crazy amount of video memory

[Arkeneaver]

I have the same problem and answer your Q's. Yes for the PC part. And yes for other part. I use TS but tried it with it off too. And its plugged into a hole in the back.

I found that using Teamspeak crashed source games when using an intergrated sound card... dont ask why because i dont know... but apparently, a lot of people have had that problem. To get around it, i use Teamspeak on a different PC.

Caboos... what about other source games aside from CSS... Do they work without problems?. If not... i recomend you do a complete reinstall of Steam.

[caboos]

Caboos... what about other source games aside from CSS... Do they work without problems?. If not... i recomend you do a complete reinstall of Steam.
ill try thank you alot for all your help

[caboos]

I uninstalled steam and installed it back again and now i get this error message when i try to lunch steam

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library steam.dll

this is 5 steps backword

[No Shelter]

That sucks! I would try.. reformatting? I swear it has to be the media center edition.

[caboos]

ya but i have tons of files i dont want to get rid of. and i cant back them up

[Quotidius]

and i cant back them up

And why is that?

[caboos]

i dont have any CD's or USB drives

[caboos]

i really need a answer i looked on the web and there seems to be no answer for it

[caboos]

i really need a answer i looked on the web and there seems to be no answer for it
bump i cant play until this is fixed

[Quotidius]

Sorry, there doesn't seem to be any apparent solution available :(

[Stubbs]

wat would you guys recomend me waiting for left 4 dead to be on the 360 or maybe selling my 360 and getting my computer alot of ram and a good video card

but im worried about the controls computer controls usually suck

[caboos]

ERROR: Steam.exe(main exception): unable to start steam engine: *SteamStartEngine(0x12e8c8) failed with error 201

man i wish that there was a god dam solution

[Stubbs]

wat would you guys recomend me waiting for left 4 dead to be on the 360 or maybe selling my 360 and getting my computer alot of ram and a good video card

but im worried about the controls computer controls usually suck

someone answer

[caboos]

someone answer
i dont know sorry

[Prometheus]

but im worried about the controls computer controls usually suck

What's wrong with wasd?

[Arkeneaver]

i would sell the 360 because:

1. The PC crontols never suck... keyboard&mouse owns all except driving sims.
2. the 360 is old and has been stessed to its limites which is... full use of 512mb RAM and video pipelines... an example is oblvion and Gears of War.
3. with a better PC your going to have the benefit of a much faster overal system... so all programs will run slightly faster depending on Hard drive speed and buffer.
4. Pc games are far cheaper yet better at the same time
5. any console game will eventually be released on the PC so dont worry about missing out
6. console ports suck (thought that might be helpful) XD

[No Shelter]

Ark said it all. I totally agree.

And cabos it has to be the Media Center Edition cause I asked more people with same problems and they have it too. So.. get vista or XP Home.

[caboos]

And cabos it has to be the Media Center Edition cause I asked more people with same problems and they have it too. So.. get vista or XP Home.
i cant get any other, windows media edition is built into my lap top also steam has worked sence i got my laptop,

[No Shelter]

I know, it use to work for me also. I bet it was a steam update that made it screw with Media center edition.