Left 4 Dead 2 crashing on start up

[DeadPixels]

Hello people,

Left 4 Dead 2 is crashing when gets to the Powered by Souce logo, The logo starts to fade and then nothing game crashes.

Any ideas ?

[Destero]

Mine does the same.

[Tuna]

same here, started about two weeks ago, reinstall solved a problem but started again after one game played.. any fixes for it?

[space Cowboy]

it could be , if you are using reg cleaner or some thing like that it remove files from steam folder . it was that for me

[Tuna]

RESOLVED: If you are using XFIRE then log off from it or remove Left 4 Dead 2 game from detected game (never detect) and click Apply - seems that Xfire is causing problems to L4D

[DeadPixels]

Nguyên văn bởi Counting Wth the Count:

Nguyên văn bởi TheMasterBlaster™:

Have you searched any of the 10,000 posts about this?

Yes your highness. I did search and I am having trouble finding these 10,000 posts you speak of. So now I ask you specificaly for help with finding these posts. I am not just asking anyone in general. I am asking you specificaly

Well said Counting With the Count, I to could not find these 10,000 posts and the few posts I did find did help fix my issue. This is why I posted in hope someone has a new answer.....

Tuna Im not using XFire

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Nguyên văn bởi Counting Wth the Count:

Nguyên văn bởi TheMasterBlaster™:

Have you searched any of the 10,000 posts about this?

Yes your highness. I did search and I am having trouble finding these 10,000 posts you speak of. So now I ask you specificaly for help with finding these posts. I am not just asking anyone in general. I am asking you specificaly

Apparently you don't know how to search either.

Here you go mr know it all.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/550/discussions/search/?q=crash 1554 posts
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/search.php?searchid=19427092 6000 posts
Total posts 7,554.

[Weatherman]

This happens to me alot of times.There's nothing you can do unless you restart your computer

[Dharok]

You might want to have a look at this list and see if any of the applications listed there, are being run on your system.
Otherwise, you could also try bypassing the intro video by adding '-novid' to your launch parameters.