Left 4 Dead

[ChromeDome]

hello

anyone experiencing crashing with the game during gameplay. the "loop crashing" kind where the frame just gets stuck, as well as the sound?

it had done it a couple of few times before but the demo updated today and it now seems worse.
and "runtime error" crashing, too

anyone? i'm hoping its a somewhat common problem with the demo and not something else :/

 

[chris89]

I've got that error serval times, so it's not just you.

 

[ChromeDome]

^ well thats good news i guess. looking forward to the full game. probably pick it up thursday.

this may have been posted already, but maybe not. just some cool wallpapers:

http://www.left4dead411.com/media/wallpapers/

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

hello

anyone experiencing crashing with the game during gameplay. the "loop crashing" kind where the frame just gets stuck, as well as the sound?

it had done it a couple of few times before but the demo updated today and it now seems worse.
and "runtime error" crashing, too

anyone? i'm hoping its a somewhat common problem with the demo and not something else :/

Launch Left 4 Dead, once loaded Alt-Tab out and open task manager. Set the affinity to CPU 0 and the game should not freeze anymore. Worked for me.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Launch Left 4 Dead, once loaded Alt-Tab out and open task manager. Set the affinity to CPU 0 and the game should not freeze anymore. Worked for me.

You know that didn't work for me. It still crashed. What did work for me before the update that fixed the crash came out was disabling that cloud thing under options.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

You know that didn't work for me. It still crashed. What did work for me before the update that fixed the crash came out was disabling that cloud thing under options.

Yeah I did that at first as well. It stopped my crashing for a few days but eventually I had to set the affinity.

 

[ChromeDome]

mine has pretty much stopped crashing. kind of. its not real bad. i just got done playing a great game. i guess some people have some mods or ways of editing or w/e but this guy who was hosting had it so it was just crazy. with witches and smokers everywhere. and i mean everywhere

but their were some server problems and eventually it crashed. i wonder if thats just the game abruptly disconnecting from the server? although it usually tells you when that happens i wonder if the game sometimes crashes first? before the "disconnected from server" notice

anyway i hosted my first game tonight it was cool. but i don't know how to use the controls. somebody had a mic and said we should restart the game when it was having connection problems but i didn't know what the hell to do and ended up quitting the game by accident. so i guess those people got cut off somehow?

anyway can someone tell me how to "restart" a game? or change in game settings as i go? i'll check the online menu in the....menu....but idk if its there or not. instructions, that is. so when i "host' a game i know what the hell i'm doing.

 

[stinger608]

For one, they had a patch to the game yesterday sometime. That may have addressed the crashing problem.
One thing that really pisses me off, is the fact that the demo gets shut down on the 18th! The day that the retail version is released.

 

[Mussels]

For one, they had a patch to the game yesterday sometime. That may have addressed the crashing problem.
One thing that really pisses me off, is the fact that the demo gets shut down on the 18th! The day that the retail version is released.

are you sure its getting shut down? i thought that timer was merely how long until the pre-order expired (I thought the timer was a remnant for those who preordered)

 

[Kusimeka]

I thought the game was great, but i honestly kind of expected more. Maybe i just need to play with some better players, but it just didn't seem like there was as much to do as a team as i expected.

I also found that even on Expert the game was pretty easy with half decent players, but this most likely cause it was the first few levels. But i defintley think it's a great game, and hopefully with some "tower defense" mods this will be awesome

 

[AphexDreamer]

are you sure its getting shut down? i thought that timer was merely how long until the pre-order expired (I thought the timer was a remnant for those who pre-ordered)

I don't have the count down and I pre-ordered it. However my friend who has not pre-ordered the game has it and I do believe Valve plans on ending the Demo upon release of the actual game.

 

[AphexDreamer]

I thought the game was great, but i honestly kind of expected more. Maybe i just need to play with some better players, but it just didn't seem like there was as much to do as a team as i expected.

I also found that even on Expert the game was pretty easy with half decent players, but this most likely cause it was the first few levels. But i defintley think it's a great game, and hopefully with some "tower defense" mods this will be awesome

Perhaps your one of those people who will enjoy playing as infected more so then others. If you thought it was easy to survive, your going to have tons of fun trying to kill them as an infected.

 

[stinger608]

are you sure its getting shut down? i thought that timer was merely how long until the pre-order expired (I thought the timer was a remnant for those who preordered)

Here is something that was stated at 1up.com. It says that the multiplayer part of the demo will end with the release of the retail version.

Wait a minute, did he just say "pre-launch demo?" That's right. Valve has just announced that their upcoming zombie co-op shooter will be available in single and multiplayer demo form on both the Xbox 360 and PC on November 6...at least to anyone who preorders the game. For those who aren't on the ball about getting their game queued up before release, you'll have to wait until November 11 for the demo to be made available to everyone. The multiplayer portion of the demo will wrap up on November 18, the same day the game is officially released.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170986

 

[ChromeDome]

Hey Guys WTF Is This?

ok i'm new to online gaming but here i am playing and i run into porn

in the game! behind the red is a very large pee pee going into someplace...it shouldn't go :\

thats just rude! and the dude kicked me from his lame server for lol after he said he was a "pro" but died soon after

jerk

 

[Mussels]

ok i'm new to online gaming but here i am playing and i run into porn

in the game! behind the red is a very large pee pee going into someplace...it shouldn't go :\

thats just rude! and the dude kicked me from his lame server for lol after he said he was a "pro" but died soon after

jerk

you can use spray tags like in CS/CSS. it just means one of the players imported porn as his tag.

 

[ChromeDome]

great. well thanks for getting me caught up. hope no children are playing. like little kids. although if they are on the internet....well...its hard to avoid, i suppose

 

[Mussels]

great. well thanks for getting me caught up. hope no children are playing. like little kids. although if they are on the internet....well...its hard to avoid, i suppose

if children are playing a violent game with blood, gore, and zombies online and unsupervised i think they've got the ability to find porn too.

 

[ChromeDome]

yeah but if a parent see's a kid playing with cartoon zombies they might think "well ok i played video games growing up"

i don't think a cartoon zombie game with porn included is expected, though. even if they use net nanny or some other program to help with the porn searches.

i wonder if parents actually examine their kids steam games list very much? doubt it.



EDIT: anyway i'm old enough for both so its all gravy baby

 

[Mussels]

yeah but if a parent see's a kid playing with cartoon zombies they might think "well ok i played video games growing up"

i don't think a cartoon zombie game with porn included is expected, though. even if they use net nanny or some other program to help with the porn searches.

i wonder if parents actually examine their kids steam games list very much? doubt it.



EDIT: anyway i'm old enough for both so its all gravy baby

i dont see anything cartoony anout L4D. its violent, its gory. its no PG rated half life with the odd blood splatter, this has gore, vomit, gibs, detachable limbs, people on fire... its not child friendly by any means. (Unless you get the german version, lol)

 

[csendesmark]

Yezz only 21h left

Check this out

 

[ShadowFold]

hah thats great

 

[Mussels]

i kept making jokes like that too, hehe

 

[ChromeDome]

haha thats cool

 

[mdm-adph]

i don't think a cartoon zombie game with porn included is expected, though. even if they use net nanny or some other program to help with the porn searches.

There's no porn "included" in Left 4 Dead, no more than there is porn "included" in Oblivion. It's user generated content.

Anyway, if a parent is letting their kid on the internet, they should expect them to encounter porn, no matter where they go, be it playing games or browsing the web. It's like the #1 use of the Internet.

 

[Mussels]

There's no porn "included" in Left 4 Dead, no more than there is porn "included" in Oblivion. It's user generated content.

Anyway, if a parent is letting their kid on the internet, they should expect them to encounter porn, no matter where they go, be it playing games or browsing the web. It's like the #1 use of the Internet.

common sense parenting would involve teaching kids that online porn has viruses and trashes your PC, and to go buy magazines because you only get dirty looks from the girl behind the counter.

Thats going off topic: 6 hours til the full game is out! how is it, people?