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Counter Strike Source and other Valve games not working.

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W4rr10r

Since the Steam Client update in the beginning of Summer Sale (or before it begins, don't remember) Counter Strike Source stopped working, it freezes in the main menu background (without the menu, just the background). Then I tried TF2 and L4D2, both didn't work, TF2 at least loaded the menu, but froze when i clicked to find servers.
I contacted Steam Support last Friday, but they seen too busy to answer me...
I created this thread to see if anyone else is having the same problem.
Here's a screenshot of how the problem looks like in CSS.

And if there is any grammar nazi out there, sorry for any mistake. (Greetings from Brazil)

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wykydvamp

TF2 and L4D2 both work for me
Sorry about your luck
EDIT: verify your game cache integrity, may help

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W4rr10r

Already did but nothing changed, thanks for the advice anyways.

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Lucnvil

I can't even play TF2, it takes 5 minutes to unfreeze on the main menu. And when you have to search for servers, oh well... that's another story.

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W4rr10r

Looks like that only a few people have this problem.
We are the unlucky ones :(

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Cheeseburgermafia

TF2 works for me.

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aza3l12

Valve want to you buy and play Cs:Go

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W4rr10r

I WAS satisfied with source and 1.6, and I have no money to spent on games
"Not this time Gaben"

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bmh67wa

There are many people having issues with Source based games right now. For the most part it's only happening to people running XP pre-SP2. Updates or a new PC/OS should fix the problem. Valve dropped support for SP1 a year ago and at the time they said that they were giving people a year to upgrade their systems. A year has passed now and people seem to have forgotten.

If you don't fall into this category then I don't know what to tell you. Everything is working fine on my Windows 7 and my XP SP3 PCs.

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vidmavidma

+1.

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aCAssassin

This, or try verifying their cache files. Another thing you can try in go to your steam directory and find a file called clientregistry.blob (I think thats how it spelt) delete the file, so steam will be forced to update, which could remove any problems.

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W4rr10r

hmm.. I'll try it.

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W4rr10r

I have Windows 7. Looks like this problem with the Source games is kind of "random" and there aren't many people with it...
Thanks for the info anyways.

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bfrheostat

L4D2 worked without a problem, minutes ago.

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Jhon

this

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GoodGifter

www.reddit.com/r/steam is best friend for OP

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JaniYa

Yea, CSGO aren't working for me!! Crashes when u play MatchMaking.. No support from Steam till now :-/

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Jaskys

It gets updated once a week atleast...
Aswell didn't encountered any crashehs on CS:GO

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JaniYa

lol its been almost one month im having this issue.

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DRIGON

Counter strike source doesn't work for me either. I have to downgrade steam every time I want to play <.<

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Closed 12 years ago by W4rr10r.