Recent content by mrbenn

definitely a win7 issue, have cleaned and reinstalled Steam and HL2, swapped the Ati card out for a much lower powered Nvidia card and still exactly the same issue

Also tried running Smartclose which closes ALL running programs except for protected system processes and still same crash to desktop

update: Rebooted back into Vista to make sure, and game ran perfectly right away, so it's definitely a Win7 issue. It is also not just steam, have now tried several other games and all of them do the same, bomb straight back to desktop as soon as they try to go fullscreen. I have removed the ATi...

ok, tonight I have tried the following: Uninstalled Steam and reinstalled in compatibility mode, downloaded directx updater program, uninstalled and re-installed HL2 Episode 1 via steam client, removed and reinstalled ATI catalyst 9.6 x64 Win 7 drivers and set the game to -32bit mode. None of...

I have a dual boot with Vista 32 and it works perfectly in that. Will try installing steam in compatibility mode this evening and report back

This is one of the steps in rebuilding the icon cache, but just to be sure I tried it again, no difference

yes several times. Unfortunately I have no restore points old enough to be before the problem arose

Followed the instructions to the letter but made no difference :-(

All my desktop icons are missing on x64 RC, if i go to Computer/Desktop I can see that there should be several on there but when I return to desktop none of them are displayed. I have gone to Personalization/Change Desktop Icons and turned on Recycle Bin etc but still nothing. Anyone any ideas?

Windows 7 x64 RC Ati (latest catalysts drivers) Asus P5Q Pro board I am having problems getting Half Life 2 Episode 1 to run in W7 x64. Steam starts fine and the game launches (I see the Valve logo etc) but when it tries to go any further it crashes back to desktop. Aero Peek is showing the...