My steam games won't work

[Godlygamer23]

Have you done any overclocking recently? I've had the issue where certain wouldn't work correctly. The games were Sid Meier's Civilization V and Borderlands 2. They would randomly crash. After I lowered my overclock, the games worked properly. (yes the overclock was stable.)

[Kevinkt]

did you try and Disable your sound card through the Windows Device Manager and try running the game

this is one of the things .steam. has you try

I've tryed that, I have onboard sound off. It seems to be only dx9 games won't work

[Kevinkt]

Have you done any overclocking recently? I've had the issue where certain wouldn't work correctly. The games were Sid Meier's Civilization V and Borderlands 2. They would randomly crash. After I lowered my overclock, the games worked properly. (yes the overclock was stable.)

My pc isn't overclocked at all

[Godlygamer23]

I've tryed that, I have onboard sound off. It seems to be only dx9 games won't work

So you can play DX11 games?

[Kevinkt]

So you can play DX11 games?

Yes. Metro 2033 in dx11 works, and Arma 3

[godlikegohan]

did you try updating your dx9

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35#

[Kevinkt]

did you try updating your dx9

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35#

 

Says up to date soo yeah

[godlikegohan]

ok then try this.

change the compatibility settings on the game exe.. like that fable game.. go into its folder and find its exe.

right-click the programs exe , click Properties, and then click the Compatibility tab.

then check the box for.(  run this program in compatibly mode for )and pick xp  service pack 3

then click ok

then try to run the game

if it doesn't work. you can change it back

[Kevinkt]

No dice. =/

[godlikegohan]

ok i just read. that updating your bios on your mother board fix's this for some people

[Kevinkt]

ok i just read. that updating your bios on your mother board fix's this

Alright, I'll try that soonish If I can find a bios update for this peice of shit OEM MB

[godlikegohan]

whats your mother board model and maker

[Kevinkt]

I'm looking right now online, but MCP61PM-GM Emachines

[Godlygamer23]

whats your mother board model and maker

It's OEM. It's unlikely that it has a specific motherboard name/model.

 

EDIT: I stand corrected.

[Kevinkt]

It's OEM. It's unlikely that it has a specific motherboard name/model.

 

EDIT: I stand corrected.

I guess it's made by gateway

[godlikegohan]

check out this thread

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-MCP61PM-GM-mobo-unluck-gateway

 

note only install a bios update... if your 100000% sure its for your system

 

i would email emachines and ask them if they have a bios update

[bradscoolio]

Delete everything in your steam folder except for steamapps and steam.exe and it'll launch and repair your steam installation.

 

It's worked for a couple of my problems :)

[Kevinkt]

Yeah, I feel reallllllly skecky updating my bios on a OEM, I don't have the money right now to buy a new pc

[Kevinkt]

Delete everything in your steam folder except for steamapps and steam.exe and it'll launch and repair your steam installation.

 

It's worked for a couple of my problems :)

Won't that be the same thing as reinstailing?

[Godlygamer23]

Yeah, I feel reallllllly skecky updating my bios on a OEM, I don't have the money right now to buy a new pc

I wouldn't do it. Particularly because there's always the risk of the power going out during the update.

[Kevinkt]

I wouldn't do it. Particularly because there's always the risk of the power going out during the update.

Yeah, My UPS is dead sooooooooooooo yeah

[bradscoolio]

Won't that be the same thing as reinstailing?

 

Probably... woops.

[Kevinkt]

Ok. I know im a little late on this but after i did some more looking into it. It looks like MSI Afterburner crashes dx9 games. So just updating this just incase other people find this in the seach.

 

TURN OFF MSI AFTERBURNER! and your dx9 games will work again