I run a very advanced self customized computer and even have Vista Ultimate running on it. Believe it or not, half life and NS worked fine on it for about 6 months now. All of a sudden the other day i tried changing my gamma while playing NS, and all this incompatble ish showed up and now everytime i try to start HL OR NS it flickers the game backround screen and before the menu even shows up, it flickers right back to desktop. I just got done uninstalling NS, HL and even steam. Completely reinstalled everything and it is still a problem. I am totally lost as to what to do.
P.S. - i just ran Spybot, and AVG anti-virus and found absolutely no spyware or virus's. I maintain my computer very well and honestly have no idea where to go from here and seeing how i'm addicted to NS, i'm pretty sad. =(
Specs.
Core duo 2.6's
4gig ram
Radeon Crossfire 1950
Vista Ultimate
Full Version: Kicked back to Desktop upon start
As I recall, when uninstalling Steam it's imperative you go into the registry to delete what entries the uninstall missed.
This is an educated guess, as I haven't had to do this in a good while.
This is an educated guess, as I haven't had to do this in a good while.
Well not only did i reinstall it, i reinstalled it on a different drive (my computer has 6 different hard drives, some partitioned) AND i ran Registry Booster on my system... Come to think of it i haven't restarted since though so i will try that and post any changes.
still no luck
still no luck
!~UPDATE~!
after trying out countless launch commands (right clicking on the game, going to properties and inserting specific launch commands) i tried launching it in a window with -windowed command. It ran, and apparently when i was messing with my video options i didn't know that opengl doesn't get along with widescreen format with my videocard. So i changed it to DRD, widescreen and 1680X1050 and now i'm set to go. Thanks for trying though. I feel like a moron having the solution been so simple and not having needed to reinstall. oh well. Lesson learned.
after trying out countless launch commands (right clicking on the game, going to properties and inserting specific launch commands) i tried launching it in a window with -windowed command. It ran, and apparently when i was messing with my video options i didn't know that opengl doesn't get along with widescreen format with my videocard. So i changed it to DRD, widescreen and 1680X1050 and now i'm set to go. Thanks for trying though. I feel like a moron having the solution been so simple and not having needed to reinstall. oh well. Lesson learned.
You've given others some useful information though.
Glad all is well.
Glad all is well.
Try taking your gamma program off, somtimes steam will say it's a hack 
happend to me once and i had same thing happen to me lol!
happend to me once and i had same thing happen to me lol!
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