CS:GO Wont Launch | Steam Support Did't Help | Please Help Me

[Stankus_Dankus]

As you can tell by the title CS:GO won't launch. I had an issue before where I got a black screen whenever I quit the game, pressed the windows key, or pressed F11. Now the issue is that whenever I go to launch CS:GO I get the "preparing to launch" message but the game does not launch, the same this happens with GMod. I have already tried re-installing the game, setting CS:GO.exe to admin but this has not worked. thank you in advance for helping.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Windows 10?
Try to disable xbox dvr function

[Stankus_Dankus]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Muppet among Puppets:

Windows 10?
Try to disable xbox dvr function

I'v already disabled it for framerate reasons. could it be anything else?

[The Giving One]

"Games do not run after preparing to launch"

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6218-USFX-5568

[REDDOG]

You are LUCKY,I have at lest 80 games in steam that Will launch but will Not connect with server.

[Stankus_Dankus]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Giving One:

"Games do not run after preparing to launch"

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6218-USFX-5568

There is a fix in there but i cant try it because the cputest.exe for "Source Games Wont Launch" wont run because i think that program is out of date.

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

There is a fix in there but i cant try it because the cputest.exe for "Source Games Wont Launch" wont run because i think that program is out of date.

Why are you trying to test your CPU ?

If your CPU is otherwise fine and meets the requirements for the game, that should not be necessary.

Post your complete system specs. (Operating system, GPU, CPU, RAM, etc.)

Be sure to state if that OS is 32 or 64 bit and what Windows it is.

[Stankus_Dankus]

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Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

There is a fix in there but i cant try it because the cputest.exe for "Source Games Wont Launch" wont run because i think that program is out of date.

Why are you trying to test your CPU ?

If your CPU is otherwise fine and meets the requirements for the game, that should not be necessary.

Post your complete system specs. (Operating system, GPU, CPU, RAM, etc.)

Be sure to state if that OS is 32 or 64 bit and what Windows it is.

I was just following the fix that its has. but here are my specs, I have a pretty good computer I just built it last month.

GPU - R9 390 nitro 8gb GDRR5
CPU - AMD FX-6300 Black Edition 3.5 ghz
RAM - 16 gb DDR3 1600mhz
Cooler - Corsair H-80i V2
OS - Windows 10 64 bit

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

I have a pretty good computer I just built it last month.

These details, as well as the system specs are really good to include in your opening post.

Now post the exact motherboard that you have, please.

[Stankus_Dankus]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Giving One:

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

I have a pretty good computer I just built it last month.

These details, as well as the system specs are really good to include in your opening post.

Now post the exact motherboard that you have, please.

my motherboard is the Sabertooth 990FX R3.0. also i dont know if this helps but my antivirus is Norton. I saw that it interfered with steam on a thread so I got Avira to try but that didnt fix anything. so im back to norton

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

my motherboard is the Sabertooth 990FX R3.0

And you have downloaded and installed each and every device driver from here...

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX/HelpDesk_Download/

in their latest versions, as well as checked on any release notes for any BIOS updates that may be highly recommended, especially since you have Windows 10 ?

Get GPU drivers from AMD instead, of course.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

my motherboard is the Sabertooth 990FX R3.0. also i dont know if this helps but my antivirus is Norton. I saw that it interfered with steam on a thread so I got Avira to try but that didnt fix anything. so im back to norton

Just saw your edit. YES. That can surely be a problem, as well as child processes of Norton.

Norton can be toxic for Steam. Why would you want that antivirus on that nice build ???

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

[Stankus_Dankus]

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Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

my motherboard is the Sabertooth 990FX R3.0. also i dont know if this helps but my antivirus is Norton. I saw that it interfered with steam on a thread so I got Avira to try but that didnt fix anything. so im back to norton

Just saw your edit. YES. That can surely be a problem, as well as child processes of Norton.

Norton can be toxic for Steam. Why would you want that antivirus on that nice build ???

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

I get driver updates for my gpu from Radeon crimson and i dont feel comfortable updating my BIOS for obvious reasons. ill double check my cpu driver because i know for a fact that my gpu driver is up to date. and what free antivirus do you recomend in the meantime because im going to buy an antivirus in january

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

I get driver updates for my gpu from Radeon crimson and i dont feel comfortable updating my BIOS for obvious reasons. ill double check my cpu driver because i know for a fact that my gpu driver is up to date. and what free antivirus do you recomend in the meantime because im going to buy an antivirus in january

You did not even comment on device drivers from the official site of ASUS that I linked.

I am not only talking about GPU drivers here. You built that computer, so where did you download and install the device drivers from ?

It should have been from ASUS only, if my link above is to the correct board.

To me it is funny that you went from Avira back to Norton. If you ask me, Avira all day over Norton. Norton is horrible.

[Stankus_Dankus]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Giving One:

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

I get driver updates for my gpu from Radeon crimson and i dont feel comfortable updating my BIOS for obvious reasons. ill double check my cpu driver because i know for a fact that my gpu driver is up to date. and what free antivirus do you recomend in the meantime because im going to buy an antivirus in january

You did not even comment on device drivers from the official site of ASUS that I linked.

I am not only talking about GPU drivers here. You built that computer, so where did you download and install the device drivers from ?

It should have been from ASUS only, if my link above is to the correct board.

To me it is funny that you went from Avira back to Norton. If you ask me, Avira all day over Norton. Norton is horrible.

On the issue of dowloading drivers from ASUS, no i did not. i downloaded them from the amd website. and i guess i will go back to avira then

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SgtTeamHellfire:

On the issue of dowloading drivers from ASUS, no i did not. i downloaded them from the amd website. and i guess i will go back to avira then

I am not talking about GPU drivers here. A computer needs more devices than a GPU to function.

Do you not see all the drivers on the page I linked ? Since you don't seem to know what I am talking about, that is a huge issue and apparently you have not installed them at all.

That is the first thing you have to do after installing an OS on a new build. Not sure why, but you seem to be totally ignoring what I keep saying about device drivers from ASUS other than GPU.

[Stankus_Dankus]

okay i understand now