Left 4 Dead crash fix

26 Dec

Posted by Jayce as Games

Left 4 Dead crash fix. Yup. I finally found a way to fix Left 4 Dead crash issue. I thought it’s my display card ~ ATI HD 4870 issue. However, after lower the GPU and memory clock back to normal. The Left 4 Dead game still crash. So what should I do? Find a solution online of course. However, there are no real solutions that fix.

Left 4 Dead

Fix Left 4 Dead crash:
Go to Option -> Video

Display Mode -> Select Windowed (No Border)
Multicore rendering -> select Disabled.

With this video setting, it does help to solve Left 4 Dead crash on my case. Hopefully, it will help you too. No worry about the Windowed (No Border) mode. It look alike like Full Screen mode.

Time to kill those zombies.

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Tags: ATI, crash, display, fix, Games, GPU, HD 4870, issue, Left 4 Dead, memory, multicore, no border, option, video, Windowed, zombie

30 Responses

egonr

December 26th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

thnx worked for me!!!
Jayce

December 27th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

No problem. Enjoy the game.
Thoran

December 27th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

Game used to crash after 5 Minutes.
I switched to Windowed (No Border) but left Multicore activated.

Works fine now. thanks alot.
Someone

December 28th, 2008 at 10:29 am

great, thank you very much!!
Jayce

December 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

You are welcome.

By the way, try not to use 8X AA setting. It crashes on my system too. Just use 4X AA will do.
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December 31st, 2008 at 5:22 pm

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Jenny

January 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 am

omg..you’re freaking good kind-hearted guy ever..muackz
NoXy

January 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Tnx it works
cn

January 5th, 2009 at 6:56 am

thanks for the tip - was constantly crashing, usually after 5-15 minutes or on level load. now it hasnt crashed once in like 4h.
Jayce

January 5th, 2009 at 10:59 am

You all are welcome.
daemon1129

January 6th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

hmm, still crashes with me, use to be after 10 mins, now it last 10 mins more…but thx anyways.
kevin

January 9th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

for some reason my still crashes? sometimes it just freezes some times my whole comp freezes and i have all those sittings and all my quality on low anyone can help?
lordazoroth

January 21st, 2009 at 5:55 am

this fixed worked perfectly with me for a few weeks, i had no problems whatsoever until i installed an additional video card, now i have 2 8800 ultras and now for some reason i get a sharp decline in performance at about half the frames as before whenever i have ‘windowed no border’ mode enabled, it just seems very choppy now, i have tried lowering my graphics, and changing through all sli rendering modes with no noticeable change in frame rates, i get a stiff 30-40 most of the time and it’s annoying, can’t i get this to run normally without disabling sli?, with 2 8800 ultras the game runs perfectly (outside of random crashes) on max graphics - 1920×1200 res, vsync triple, and 4x anti aliasing - in just plain ‘fullscreen’ mode but when i enable ‘windowed no border’ mode, i receive penis in my butt, what gives?
geo

January 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

confirmed!!
tsen

January 31st, 2009 at 2:03 pm

mine is crashing too, after i execute then suddenly crashes and back to desktop, how about that? pls help me. thnx advance
lordazoroth

February 1st, 2009 at 10:38 pm

hey, i’d really appreciate it if i could get an answer - or at least a response - from my earlier post, i’ve been waiting quite a while (it’s feb 01, been waiting since jan 21) lame
Jai

February 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm

hasn’t crashed at all, cheers man =]
vso

February 5th, 2009 at 1:36 am

thank you man.you are great!.wish you be able to get the power to fix problems in other games too……bye
werd0729

March 12th, 2009 at 2:05 am

another solution would be…

BTW this is only applicable when UR HEARING THE GAME’s MUSIC BUT theres no VIDEO…and ur CRT monitor is blinking…. the reason for this is that the game’s video setting is set to 1208 w/c ur monitor cant support the video mode…

go to:

C:\program files\left 4 dead\left4dead\cfg (the directory, where u installed ur L4D)

open the notepad titled video

next change the “setting.defaultres” quoted “1208″ to “1024″

“setting.defaultres” “1024″ —looks like this..

save and play the game…

it amazes me that i discovered this tweak…. haha…
time_to_die

March 26th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Ah that worked like a charm. cheers.
Gaya

March 29th, 2009 at 12:41 am

Perfect! I have a 4870 too and it isn’t crashing anymore! thnx a bunch
Jayce

March 30th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

@Gaya: No problem. Enjoy the game.
tolis

April 1st, 2009 at 3:31 am

this shit is working………..hope you all enjoy the game!!!!!!!!!
mot

April 5th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

great…. i thought it was caused by vga compability… time to shoot more zombies
Andrei

April 7th, 2009 at 7:58 am

i tried that before……hmmmm….but it got better…never really fixed. crashed but i could go back to the desktop and click the game again and everything is fine…wierd heh? il try it again tho, thx for finding another way to help us because the other info wasnt really helpful to me.^^
satya

April 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Disabling the multicore option worked for me! Thanks!
Dijinn

April 27th, 2009 at 6:54 am

Thank you very much … works fine for me.. id been searching for patch and this is the only cure to the crash problem …. thanks a lot.
kenimaru89

April 30th, 2009 at 11:51 am

were can i see the optoion>viseo????
justastranger

June 5th, 2009 at 5:08 am

Thx this really fixed it. My system had the crash, with L4D and the ATI 4870 X2. Now i can play Left for dead again!!!
John

June 7th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

when i play left for dead its all glitchy and super laggy what do i do?