Heeeeeeelp!

[G Man]

Hey all, i can't play cs! this error message comes up!
it says
"failed to set video mode-resetting to defaults
game will now restart with the new video settings"

tries again

"failed to set video mode- falling back to safe mode settings game will now restart with the new video settings"

then

"failed to set video mode the game has a minimum requirememnt of direct x 7.0 compatible hardware"

and i have 9.0c!
HELP PLEASE!

 

[^Ben]

What graphics card do you have?

It sounds like you have something uber archaic.

 

[G Man]

Nvidia FX5200 Direct X9.0c

 

[^Ben]

Hrmmmmm, updated the drivers?

www.nvidia.com

 

[G Man]

yup its there

 

[G Man]

as in, yes i have lol

 

[^Ben]

With the launch options try.

-dx7 -windowed -height 768 -width 800

 

[G Man]

launch options?

 

[G Man]

ok, its working... THANKYOU SO MUCH!

 

[G Man]

omfg its not working again, same error message...

 

[15357]

you could just edit your posts instead of posting again.

 

[^Ben]

Have you got 2 shortcuts for the game?

1 on the desktop and 1 on inside of the steam menu?

You have to have the options I suggested in both shortcuts.

Are you ready to kiss me

Yep just got done posting that in the Steam forums smile.gif Good work!

Either get a profile editor like saweetnesstrev said (nHancer, YAPE, etc), or manually delete the settings associted with hl2.exe in your registry. Go into your registry under this key:

CODE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{F5857C38-087A-4CD1-98DD-D4DF85D1A681}\0000


The GUID on yours will be different, but generally it's the furthest one down the list. The 0000 is likely the same (first adapter under that id).

Now delete any entries starting with:

CODE
_hl2.exe:


Even though entries will appear in your NVIDIA panel, the values associated with them are gone and you can either forget about it or set defaults or redo your profile.

That's it! HL2/CSS works again!

Or

Download a program name nHancer and delete the halflife2 profile.. IT WORKS!!

smile.gif its the freaking profile thats crashing it!!