Leadtek Geforce 5900 Problems w/ Source

[Vader]

While i'm waiting for all my updgrades to come in..I moved my gaming over to my Home Media Server for the time being. Here are the specs:

Abit IC7-G Max II Advance
P4 Northwood 3.2c w/Zalman 7000AlCu
2 x 1GB Corsair Value PC3200
Maxtor 160GB SATA
Leadtek Geforce A350 TDH Geforce 5900 clocked to 5950Ultra
Onboard Sound
Plextor 8x DVD -r/rw +r/rw

The only two games I play really, are Battlfield 2 and Counter-Strike Source. I can play BF2 fine...1024x768 w/Medium Settings..runs pretty smooth.

Now the Source Engine Games are another matter. I can play all the games off of steam except HL2 and CS:S. When I start either, I get an error:

Failed to initialize 3d Video..attempting to restart.

So it trys to restart 3 times..once in windowed mode and the last error that comes up is:

You must have at least a Direct 7 compatible video device...etc....

I tried 3 different drivers , and 3 different BIOS's for that card and still the same issue? Any ideas?

 

[Dumb Dude]

Source seems to have a problem with the FX cards and the newest drivers. Rolling back your drivers to older ones should fix the problem.

EDIT: Opps, didn't see that you tried 3 different drivers.

 

[Mr. Stryker]

Try leaving your card at stock speeds and try the game again. Do you have DirectX9.0c installed? There might be a little bit of something in the Forceware settings that HL2 doesn't like.

 

[Vader]

It definately was a driver issue..had to go back to Forceware 71.68 off of guru3d.com .

Thx!