CS:GO crashes on launch

kibblett

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Nov 30, 2015
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Hello!

I was playing CS:GO perfectly fine in the morning on Windows 7 and along came a Windows 10 update. I was like screw it why not I'll upgrade. Upgraded to Windows 10 and everything became slow trying to do anything. I tried to play a game of CS:GO but it was horribly laggy and disgusting, so I was like stuff this and downgraded immediately. Upon my downgrade back to Windows 7, the only thing that I noticed was out of shape was that my USB drivers weren't working. I reinstalled the drivers and my USB ports started working again. (not sure if thats relevant)

THE PROBLEM
When I went to open up CS:GO through steam;
>it said preparing for launch (as usual)
>0.5s backlight black screen
>my resolution appears to change (not quite sure what it is but is cut off on both sides to look like a box)
>5 second backlight black screen
>a complete black screen
>the resolution restores and I'm back to where I started.
I don't even get an error or anything

I have tried reinstalling CS:GO twice, ran it as admin and even tried the "Verify integrity of game cache" thing too after deleting csgo.exe,. Nothing seems to be working. Client is up to date and all of my other steam games work.

I am utterly baffled as this has never happened to me before. Someone please help.
 


Why not crimson?
 
Bit of an update. I upgraded to WIN10 again and the game worked but really slow. I uninstalled the steam Client after updating to WIN10 then restored my version of windows 7. I reinstalled the client and reinstalled CSGO but the same crap is happening.
 


Got it working after a very long time. I had to reupgrade to win 10 and uninstall steam. After that I downgraded again, reinstalled steam. Then had to run the game in safe mode. I found out that my game would crash whenever I changed the settings to be fullscreen. In a recent patch though, my game reverted to fullscreen and I haven't had any problems since.
 
there were a ton of driver issues when swapping from 7 to 10, windows did not account for all the GPU drivers and everything to go smoothly. I guess game clients aswell, considering it changed the 3d API from 11,11.1 to 12. this also caused a few issues. Im glad you got it to work man. Enjoy it