Vista - cs 1.6 home premium 64 bit.

hello fella vista users !

i bought a new rig a few months back and got me some vista to let my memory be of full use.

i played cod4 and age of conan just fine.

but then my friend wanted me to come back and play some cs 1.6 .

i said ok ill own you a few times , i downloaded steam (i had an account that had cs on it) and then dowloaded cs from steam.

ok, now i was ready for some action , i enter the game and then when i got on a server and was on it for a few seconds it just well exitied (dont know if thats a word ).

no error message no nothing it just fell down ..

is this meh vista? because i played it fine on xp with my last computer .

(o and yeh i dont want to just change back to xp )

o and heres my rig

4GB DDR2-800 Black Dragon (QC) - Athlon64 X2 5600+ - 750GB SATA2 - force3d HD 4870 - ASRock AliveXFire-eSATA2 - Realtek ALC883 (7.1)

Hi kallikukur,

I play 1.6 without problems

You might have a Graphics setting issue or model file issue,

Paste this command into your web browser and press enter, this will make Steam run a full diagnostic and analysis check of all games and settings and show the results after and should allow to you see the cause instantly
If you still have problems after doing the recommendations from the Steam Performance checks you can Rightclick CS in Steam and goto properties then set the following Launch Options...



-Autoconfig will discard any settings and use defaults [This will help check for any game config related errors]

-32bit will force the game to load as 32bit [can sometimes be useful for 64bit OS and dll related errors]

-sw will start in windowed mode [the game resolution can be higher than your display and cause the game to crash, this will help check if thats the cause]

-noipx will disable IPX support [not used in any Steam games but might help anyway]

-d3d will start the game in Direct3D mode [OpenGL is emulated though Direct3D so this will help determine if its a OpenGL error]


Let us know if you have any success or we can try a few more last options

Steven

Even if you don't manage to play cs 1.6 on Vista is that really that much of a problem that it would be worth going back to XP over? Also you didn't mention if you had tried to play it again after you were kicked! Is this a reoccurring thing on any sever?

i did try to enter again,

and i wasnt kicked .. the game just "exited"

Have you tried my suggestions yet? One of them will solve any issues you have with Steam Games

I use the same options if CS, CS Source or TF2 stuff up

Steven

yep i only needed to change tha gl something to 3d3 (or something like that :S)

so thx for the help