Left 4 Dead graphics problem on Nvidia 9800GTX+

This is some texture or model issue L4D gives me. I've tried everything short of re-downloading the whole thing... every res, combination of options in the advanced panel, drivers from 178.xx up to 186.xx, updating DirectX, passing different command line combos for various settings, and verifying and defragging the install. This is a new card that gives no weird errors when playing UT3, CODWaW, the Rainbow 6 games, Q3a... you name it this thing eats it alive. Full res, full detail. Heat is not an issue, nor power.
Searching around it is easy to find a lot of results of "bad textures" from people but none have every mentioned anything like this, so I had to youtube it. Hopefully it will help others (and Nvidia/Valve) to fix their problems.




And yes, I rebooted.

PS-This system is an intel Q9650 quad core 3ghz with 6gb ddr3 1066, so I didn't feel that overclocking was necessary for any game in existence.

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• l4d
• left
• for
• dead
• valve
• steam
• nvidia
• geforce
• 9800gtx+
• 9800
• gtx+

[rwlnd1987]

i had the same problem when i tried to run the game on a fx 5200. your card cant be a Nvidia 9800GTX because the problem is the shader is not 2.0. read about the l4d 2 req's and get yourself a better video card.

[cyberegg]

Yeeeeeeah. So Newegg lied, the box is wrong, all the pictures of the card on the internet are wrong, the driver detection methods are wrong, and the markings on the card all all wrong? OK!

I'm sorry, but you're an idiot. Not everyone is so clueless as you as to what's in their machine.

[SporeTuberTV]

slow down the speed of the ram a little bit, and get new better cooler for video card or lower clock speed and mem speed.

[cyberegg]

None of this should be required. It is out of the box and running stock frequencies.

[Lee7noo8]

It's heat problem, RMA it.

Problem Solved.

[cyberegg]

Yeah might be defective card, but it was from newegg like that. Since it's in a work computer I'm not that concerned about not being able to play 3d games tho ;)

[PivotsMinecafts]

i have this problem too :(

[superhugeslipknotfan]

hey i know the EXACT prob it's cuz the computer cant handle the graphics card my advice is get double cooler for your computer to cool ur comp down when it overheats

[Jagexfan]

Oh its fine..thats just the level were louis took too many pills.

[catajunyor]

One of my friends has the SAME problem but with BF:BC 2. Can anyone tell me how to help him?

[AviatorBoy1996]

you gotta borrow someones target i had that problem on bf2

[pakkala12]

i have problem in l4d2 theres no dark and in versus my hands are blur

[angleisthebest]

Umm to people saying it's his computer's specs that's the problem, you're fucking morons. I run this game on a single core Pentium 4 3.2GHz and 1GB of RAM and this card and I can run it perfectly on highest settings @ 1280x1024 resolution. It's either a airflow problem in his case or the cooler on his GPU is fucked (or both). To the video poster, check your GPU temps. If they're in the 100C+ area, its your GPU cooler that's likely either full of dust and needs cleaning or just crapped out.

[Costerguy1234556]

Thats over the recommended specs.

[digga1o1]

the exact same thing is still happening with certain nvidia cards. which includes me..

[peanutbutterdawg]

maybe you should use dx 9