So I just installed Windows 8, everything was fine. Until I opened up Steam and launched a game. Every game that I launched using Steam did not load, it just froze and has a black screen then becomes Not Responding, so I had to End Task it. But if I launched the game by itself (without turning on Steam), then the game works fine. I tried everything from reinstalling Steam, reinstalling the games, Verify game file cache, etc. None has worked so far. Does anyone experience this issue? I also tried all the latest Nvidia drivers from 326.80 Beta to those older ones. My system spec: Windows 8 Pro 64bit i7 2600k Asus Sabertooth Z77 Kingston 8gb Ram GTX 780 Enermax 850W psu
I have had problems with direct3d in these games of steam...so I found this and games work perfect ( sorry i can not post links ) This will generate D3D9.dll files with your chosen videocard; INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Double-click D3D9Gen.jar to run the program. !!!You need Java!!! 2) To generate a DLL, do this: a) Set it to List, select a card you want to try, and hit "Generate DLL". It will create a d3d9.dll in the directory the program is in. OR (probably better) b) Set it to Text, and try detecting your own card. Try #1 first, then #2, then #3. #3 can correctly detect weird cards (hybrid integrated/dedicated) but is extremely slow. 3) Put your new d3d9.dll in your FNV directory; normally this is Steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\
Thats funny, I use steam and it worked just fine for me with every ver of 8 8.1 I have tried so far. Make sure Directx is installed(yes install it manually by downloading the installer).
No idea, it keeps saying i have too many frequent posts, which I haven't post anything for over 4 years on Steam forums. So there is something wrong with their system.
Which DirectX version u're talking about? 9? or 10? or 11? But the thing is the games work fine without Steam.
Most likely going to be 11. I have Windows 8 x64 and I do not remember installing directx at all but if you run dxdiag from run it will show you which version is installed.
Yea I already installed that, but just to make sure I just reinstalled it again. And didn't fix it, still same issue. it's just weird that the games themselves work without launching Steam.
I have never tried running cracked games on steam so I can't say why it won't work for you. So I am assuming that you have greenluma installed as well? and you go to try to run a non steam game and they won't boot? I wonder if that has to do with the patched steam.dll's? I'm the wrong person to be asking about this as I don't pirate games just os's lol. Sorry I couldn't help.
I dont run cracked game on Steam, and the games I have are both, some come and only work with Steam, some I just added to run from Steam such as Planetside 2. I don't have greenluma installed, i dont even know what that is haha. I tried run games that I bought through Steam and they only work if you launch the game using Steam, and that still have issue.
Ok I found the problem, it is indeed MSI Afterburner that I always use to monitor my gtx 780 temperature and voltage. So as soon as I turned it off, all games loaded beautifully with Steam.
Well there you go. Patients and problem solving goes a long way. An example would be some of my games would boot then the next time they won't why? I try everything and get nowhere then I notice that when I got my 360 controller turned on they won't boot so as it turned out it was the driver causing the crash replaced with a different driver and now no problems. I guess mods can close this thread as solved.
Yea thanks again for trying to help me, cheers! This forums is a lot more active and people actually help others compare to other forums. And most people on here replied really fast. So far I really love this forums compare to others like overclock.net and hardforum