[Simo]

Up until now I have recently been able to play TF2 for about a year with no problems whatsoever. Now when I start the game it brings me to the main menu and just freezes there, sometimes even the blue screen of death. No option buttons are displayed, just the background art. I cannot even ctl alt del out of it, I have to manually shut down my laptop each time. Counter Strike Source and non source also freezes up. I've tried running them all in -dxlevel 80/81 using -novid and +mat_forcehardwaresync. Nothing works. I've installed about 20 different drivers, ran driver sweeping software, ran RAM stick tests, installed new BIOS, new chipset drivers, upgraded to SP1, cleaned out the dust from my vents, reformatted my hdd, and about a hundred other things that dont come to mind right now.


Over the past 4 days I seriously have spent about 20 hours reading forum posts about this issue.

Good news is that this failure with nvidia cards and windows vista is somewhat common. Seriously, just google "nvlddmkm.sys" or "0x00000116"

From the novels of text that I read there are many causes to this problem and many supposed solutions to it. I'm really at my wits end here. Very depressed I can't play games anymore.





I have no money and the laptop (yes I game on a laptop) is out of warranty.
It's been fun sourceop.
Real fun.