help!! Crash to desktop: "ATI2DVAG.DLL" error?

[surfacenormal]

Anyone else have this crash?

It always happens right when the 3d engine would start. That's just after the blurry loading screen in hl2 single player, and just as the counterstrike game should load in CS: source.

I have a P4M 1.7, Radeon 9000 with 64M of video ram, and 512MB system ram, running Win XP Pro SP2.

Doom3 runs fine on this setup.

- I disabled my onboard soundcard. Same crash.
-I've tried several versions of the catalyst drivers. Same crash.
- I removed every non-system file prior to starting the game. Same crash.

The only thing I can gather is that it ALWAYS happens when the 3D tries to load, and it ALWAYS references an error from "ATI2DVAG.DLL"... that's my video card driver.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there anything else I can try?

I'm two seconds away from sending this game back for a refund... please help!

 

[alan]

I got the same error on my laptop with the same video card you have. Since I have a Dell laptop I just went to the Dell web site and updated my video driver. Once I did this the problem was fixed. I hope this helps you.

 

[teebeebee1]

same thing, it gets to the valve pic, copyright then the blurry screen, clicks off like its gonna start and booya, desktop.

 

[doomed - uk]

Some info here about this kind of error and things to try:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/31775/

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1442297&enterthread=y

Nothing HL2 specific, though.