@FRIKI-BOB : did you set your paged pool memory to low? ( Options -> Video - > Advanced settings -> set your "Paged pool memory available" to "Low" )

why does my game not start when i have this pack?

@xof Hah, Perhaps

It bugs me and my OCD, ha-ha.
Anyways -- great collection, now pls stop plugging it everywhere, people will soon take notice of this.

@xof You're right, there is a bit of difference.
Anyways, as I said, since the engine is limited it's either that, or vanilla texture
I prefer to have slightly less defined HD textures to vanilla textures, but I understand that's it's frustrating to have to deal with this

That's the only thing that appears blurrier in the screenshots along with the bricks sticking out of the wall and etc. etc, this happens everywhere and on everything - so it's not happening only to me but to you and everyone else who plays on low paged memory.
Just compare high and low together.

I'm not running any "Ultra FPS configs" that could possibly make the texture quality worse. I honestly don't know. **BUT** when I played on high pool memory, the textures looked normal.

Also there is a very-but a very slight difference between high-med-low paged pool memory.
It's a bit of a nitpick, but the cooling, A/C or whatever it is seems to have blurrier textures on med-low along with a white outline -- while the high paged pool doesn't.

@xof Cool, let me know if it helps!

For information, I ran a quick test on the roof of No mercy and found no difference in texture quality, but maybe it does affect some textures in some part.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423421010 - high
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423420724 - medium
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423420511 - low


Anyways, the way I see it, you can't play with HD mods and high pool memory, or you will crash, so you have the choice between vanilla textures (which look outdated today) being rendered at max res all the time with high pool memory, or HD textures being rendered sometimes in lower resolution with page memory low, but at the end of the day it still looks WAY better than Vanilla, so I guess it's a sacrifice we have to make. But for the record, I play with pool memory low and I didn't experience blurry textures, so maybe it comes from somewhere else?

@Inexorable
Like an hour ago, I played L4D2 and successfully played through; No Mercy, Dead Center just fine, The Passing crashed somewhere around the underground exploration part.
I don't think my specs really matter as I'm pretty sure anyone can run L4D2 in 2025, anyways; yes I do have 16gb of ram, an I5-14400F, 1tb of storage and an RTX 3060.
I did notice slight pop-in with paged pool memory set to low in 'The Passing' right when approaching the 'wedding' part, but also lower and worse texture quality. Still convinced paged pool memory also lowers texture quality in some parts.
I'll try removing the smoother models as soon as I'm not busy with other thingies.

@xof

As for the constant crashes you experience, I don't experience that, the mod collection runs fine on my end. Do you have at least 8-16gb of ram? The game will use 4gb at best, but windows and other programs may eat some of the ram so you should have 4gb of free memory when launching L4D2, which is why it's best to have between 8gb and 16gb. If you don't have enough ram maybe try to close every program and run only L4D2 and see if it helps? Also refrain from alt-tabbing because it can in rare cases provoke crashed.

If nothing works, try disabling the "smoother" mods (smoother bill, smoother zoey, etc), I know they can be quite intensive, in fact I purposely didn't include the smoother special infected because they made my game crash all the time, but I found the game to be stable with just the survivors having smoother models, then if it keeps crashing try to remove the Remade Assets HD

I hope this can solve your problems

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@xof
I am sorry for deleting your comment, I thought you just hadn't set you paged pool memory to low like some people who didn't read the description.

For information, paged pool memory has nothing to do with texture quality but rather pop-in/out and fade distance. Unfortunately, the engine being 15 years old there is no way to run that many mods without making that sacrifice, otherwise the game will constantly crash even on the best machines.

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Those are pretty bad screenshots honestly. It's hard to notice a "difference" when both screenshots are well... different

Take a picture of the same environment at the same location, in the same positions etc. etc. etc whatever, and try again.

@xof Tell Me The Differences On These Textures And Enviroments

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423403430
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423403391

This Is Alternative Mod-Set By The Way

All on the highest, 4x MSAA, because 8x is just... no?
with motion blur and film grain
300fps constant

Your Settings Are Different Then

Didn't see that happen yet. Like I said, I dunno how this thing even works, all i see is textures rendered at a lower resolution. That's about it.

Not That, The Distance You See Fades Away When You Get Far Away

I'm not an expert on L4D2's (or Source's code in general.) to understand the point of paged pool memory, all it does it render textures at a lower resolution.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, There's Nothing You Can Do About That That's What I Do Too By Setting My Page Pool To Low

Everyone Got Preferences Though, Install It Or Not

4K's Are Not That Much Useless It's For Those Who Want Everything To Be 4K It's Like URE

All I said is that he self-plugged this collection under a "[VSCRIPT] Ragdoll Magnitude & Drive Tweaks" mod and that it was shameful.
I complimented the collection but also complained equally about the constant crashes, regardless of if paged pool memory is set to low. (Also setting Paged Pool Memory to low just makes me feel like I'm playing L4D2 on low texture detail, rendering all these pretty 4K textures useless.

Mhm, Maybe If You Count That ;)
Or Did It On Purpose You Could Say

"Accidentally"

I Think He Accidentally Did

Did you just delete my comment?

@JuZak : as stated in the description of the collection, conflicts are normal, mods work anyways

When I'm only subscribed to this collection, I get the error "Two or more add-ons have conflicting files" and over half of the add-ons are not loaded (written in red instead of white in the list of add-ons). How could I fix this? I haven't added any other add-ons.

Okay so it seems that setting the page pool memory to low fixed the crashing, thanks!

Okay thanks I will try all of those suggestions and come back and let you know how it goes. I have 32 gigs of ram.

@Dookie :

Have you set your "Paged pool memory available" to "Low"? (check description if not)

If you have, try removing the "smoother" mods (smoother bill, smoother zoey, etc), I know they can be quite intensive
then try to remove the Remade Assets HD

If nothing works, maybe you don't have enough RAM? How much do you have?

This seems like a great mod collection so far but I keep crashing. Fresh install no mods only the ones in the collection and it will crash during a campaign. For example I would play the first mission of no mercy and it would crash at different times on my way to the safehouse. Any way to fix this?

@Franshish Thanks!

A True Vanilla+ Collection That Goes To My List Would Love To Make Similiar Mod-Pack With This!


It Deserves More Ratings To Be Honest

nvm it fix after i removed other mods

@Keith : Can you provide a screenshot? Also, do you only have the visual mods in the collection or some other mods also?

the pathway at the start also the finale too

@Keith : Where is the missing texture? I did a playthrough and couldn't find it
PS: sometimes when you alt-tab during map load it can corrupt the loading.

there is a missing texture in the passing