Left 4 Dead Won't Run With Windows 7 Home on Mac *help*

nightfire said:

DarkXeno said:

right click the game in steam and defrag the game in there then reboot windows and open steam again to see if there are anymore updates just let it sit for a few minutes then try to run the game again.

I can't find anything about defraging the game when I right click. When I go to the properties of the game it says there is 0% fragmentation. I've tried restarting and all that several times.

In the game properties go to the Local Files tab at the top. From there you can choose to "Defragment cache files". It also wouldn't hurt to run the "Verify integrity of game cache..." option.

It has to be something with my video card because when I run a test it's saying that it has 0Mb for the graphics, system, and shared memory and total avalable graphics memory is not even detected. It also says my direct X version is 8.0 or earlier. What could be wrong?

I found and defraged it, still not working

nightfire said:

I found and defraged it, still not working

Did you also try to Verify the integrity of the game cache?

You might find better help on a mac forum. I'm guessing your problem is that you don't have the correct driver installed for your video card or your laptop doesn't have a good enough card to run the game. Do you know what type of video card is in your mac book? Also, you said you installed the drivers from the OS X install CD. That CD contains Windows drivers?

BusOfTheUndead said:

nightfire said:

I found and defraged it, still not working

Did you also try to Verify the integrity of the game cache?

You might find better help on a mac forum. I'm guessing your problem is that you don't have the correct driver installed for your video card or your laptop doesn't have a good enough card to run the game. Do you know what type of video card is in your mac book? Also, you said you installed the drivers from the OS X install CD. That CD contains Windows drivers?

It's : NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.8GHz configuration. I loaded the mac os x disk into the computer and it automatically did all the copying of files to make it run, including the sound. Some how there must be some drive missing or something

nightfire said:

BusOfTheUndead said:

nightfire said:

I found and defraged it, still not working

Did you also try to Verify the integrity of the game cache?

You might find better help on a mac forum. I'm guessing your problem is that you don't have the correct driver installed for your video card or your laptop doesn't have a good enough card to run the game. Do you know what type of video card is in your mac book? Also, you said you installed the drivers from the OS X install CD. That CD contains Windows drivers?

It's : NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.8GHz configuration. I loaded the mac os x disk into the computer and it automatically did all the copying of files to make it run, including the sound. Some how there must be some drive missing or something

Your system specs say you installed the 64 bit version of 7 if that is right then try downloading and installing the drivers from here.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 186.81 WHQL

I have snow leopard which supports 64 bit programs, so I installed the 64 bit Windows 7. Maybe it's not working because I should have installed the 32 bit windows 7? Just an idea

BusOfTheUndead said:

nightfire said:

BusOfTheUndead said:

Did you also try to Verify the integrity of the game cache?

You might find better help on a mac forum. I'm guessing your problem is that you don't have the correct driver installed for your video card or your laptop doesn't have a good enough card to run the game. Do you know what type of video card is in your mac book? Also, you said you installed the drivers from the OS X install CD. That CD contains Windows drivers?

It's : NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.8GHz configuration. I loaded the mac os x disk into the computer and it automatically did all the copying of files to make it run, including the sound. Some how there must be some drive missing or something

Your system specs say you installed the 64 bit version of 7 if that is right then try downloading and installing the drivers from here.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 186.81 WHQL

I JUST saw that and downloaded it but i'm afraid to install it because under supported products tab on that site it doesn't say 9600M GT. Should I still try it?

I just tried it and it said it couldn't locate anything that was compatible to my set up???

nightfire said:

BusOfTheUndead said:

nightfire said:

It's : NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.8GHz configuration. I loaded the mac os x disk into the computer and it automatically did all the copying of files to make it run, including the sound. Some how there must be some drive missing or something

Your system specs say you installed the 64 bit version of 7 if that is right then try downloading and installing the drivers from here.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 186.81 WHQL

I JUST saw that and downloaded it but i'm afraid to install it because under supported products tab on that site it doesn't say 9600M GT. Should I still try it?

It will not hurt anything to try. It just might not install.