Ok first of all, I just want to say thanks to everyone who is reading this and might be of help to get my source back to normal.
My problem is that, I will try to join a game and in the "retrieving server info" thing, it will freeze/or will just completely exit out of source and give me an error(I've had model erros b4..., cmdx8mesh similar to that, DX8, etc)
This isn't the first time I've had to deal with this problem. It has happened to me two times before
1.)Once where I didn't deal with it and just later completely reformatted it and fixed the problem I guess =/
2.) After the reformatting, a couple months later I was having problems joining games(freezing, getting into games but then getting exited out of source, etc)
So for # 2 I asked my friend for help and he tried reformatting my computer(But he wasn't able to do it because my HDD was corrupted)
After we sent it to a shop and realized I needed a new HDD, I bought a brand new HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144423
After the new HDD, I was able to play source perfectly, best time playing the game in a while.
Then about a month later, I received some virus and from there things went down the drain.
I wasn't able to get any help from my friends so I sent it into a shop to be reformatted and they did it for me. When I came home and installed everything, everything seemed to work but Source :[
Now I've waited like two months and I'm really wanting to get this fixed.
I'm not very smart w/ computers and I dont know much, so if you need me to check anything, please just help me with some patience
Also on a side note, I just got done reinstalling the latest drivers, reinstalled CS S, etc.
Finally, I know this is a problem that I can fix by myself and whoever can help me through the way, I will greatly appreciate it.
And if all else fails, could I possibly send it to a computer place to have Source fixed specifically???
Edit:I run other games perfectly fine(WC3FT/CS 1.6)
Edit: Here is one of the errors I would get...
When I try to play CS:S, I get this error and then the game closes automatically.
It says engine error, and the message is
failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer
Thanks guys
-Swordey
My problem is that, I will try to join a game and in the "retrieving server info" thing, it will freeze/or will just completely exit out of source and give me an error(I've had model erros b4..., cmdx8mesh similar to that, DX8, etc)
This isn't the first time I've had to deal with this problem. It has happened to me two times before
1.)Once where I didn't deal with it and just later completely reformatted it and fixed the problem I guess =/
2.) After the reformatting, a couple months later I was having problems joining games(freezing, getting into games but then getting exited out of source, etc)
So for # 2 I asked my friend for help and he tried reformatting my computer(But he wasn't able to do it because my HDD was corrupted)
After we sent it to a shop and realized I needed a new HDD, I bought a brand new HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144423
After the new HDD, I was able to play source perfectly, best time playing the game in a while.
Then about a month later, I received some virus and from there things went down the drain.
I wasn't able to get any help from my friends so I sent it into a shop to be reformatted and they did it for me. When I came home and installed everything, everything seemed to work but Source :[
Now I've waited like two months and I'm really wanting to get this fixed.
I'm not very smart w/ computers and I dont know much, so if you need me to check anything, please just help me with some patience
Also on a side note, I just got done reinstalling the latest drivers, reinstalled CS S, etc.
Finally, I know this is a problem that I can fix by myself and whoever can help me through the way, I will greatly appreciate it.
And if all else fails, could I possibly send it to a computer place to have Source fixed specifically???
Edit:I run other games perfectly fine(WC3FT/CS 1.6)
Edit: Here is one of the errors I would get...
When I try to play CS:S, I get this error and then the game closes automatically.
It says engine error, and the message is
failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer
Thanks guys
-Swordey