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x800xl not cutting it?

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killxswitch

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I just bought a Samsung 940b 19" monitor with a native resolution of 1280x1024. With my 17" crt I had to run it at 1152x864 because any higher and the low refresh rate would give me headaches.

So I always ran games (mainly counter-strike:source and HL2) in either 1024 or 1152. The new monitor doesn't look good at all in any other res than 1280, so I've moved to playing in that res.

Now when i play CS:S, everything is fine for perhaps 20 minutes, then things freeze, sometimes the screen goes crazy with vertical lines, the game crashes, and an error about how "the memory could not be read" pops up.

This is a common error in CS:S, but I hadn't gotten it in a long time, but now after switching monitors, I get it almost every time I play.

Any ideas? The nature of the crashes is different from previous crashes in this game, it "feels" graphics related, if that makes sense. I've always felt this XL was a dud.
 
I've been getting similar issues- crashes every 3 minutes or so. Go to www.steampowered.com and in their forums there's a solution that involves adding a string to your CS:S shortcut specifying your resolution and refresh rate. It turns out that CS:S has been trying to run a faster refresh rate than my monitor supports, so it crashes. A bunch of people have had this happen. After I ran the shortcut with the extra string added I played for like 30-40 min straight with no issues (I turned my PC off at this point because it was 2am).

Try it out...
 
mj007 said:
I've been getting similar issues- crashes every 3 minutes or so. Go to www.steampowered.com and in their forums there's a solution that involves adding a string to your CS:S shortcut specifying your resolution and refresh rate. It turns out that CS:S has been trying to run a faster refresh rate than my monitor supports, so it crashes. A bunch of people have had this happen. After I ran the shortcut with the extra string added I played for like 30-40 min straight with no issues (I turned my PC off at this point because it was 2am).

Try it out...
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I wish my CS:S was that easy. Since the mid-December update I get "Steam validation rejected" errors when I go to launch the game. They say they are aware of the issue and working on a fix. I just wonder how long it will be before I can play the game again because of this stupid problem.
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I remember when CSS would run for hours at high framerates with good graphics. I had great fun. I wish Valve would stop breaking something that used to be fine.
 
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