L4d Appcrash

hey guys

Ive spent the last couple of days trying to get l4d to work, every time i try to run the game it plays through the intro movie and then crashes straight after that when the little ' loading' message appears in the bottom right corner, Ive fully updated the game, uninstalled and re-installed and still experience the same problems.
the error message says APPCRASH here is the screen shot......



Ive looked online but haven't been able to find a correct workaround for the problem although a number of people have experienced the same problem.
so anyone here had the problem or can offer up a solution id e very grateful
cheers and take care.

 

What video driver are you using?

You can try reinstalling steam also.

I have same specs as you and I do get a lag spike of about 2secs when arriving at the main menu, but it doesn't crash very often.

 

i reinstalled steam about an hour ago, im using 186.81 drivers, it doesn't even make it to the main menu just the intro then crash to desktop, maybe ill have to do a fresh OS install but im really hoping i don't have to.

 

I had several APPCRASH problems with left 4 dead before, to the point that data in the harddrive was being corrupted and I had to reinstall the game again. After failing to install windows 7, and reading that It might have been due to faulty ram, I ran memtest and it turned out that ram was indeed causing all the problems. So in short I would suggest running memtest and discarding it as a possible problem first.

 

Ok i recently ran memtest but ill do it again to remove it as a possiblity...thanks for the suggestion, if it was a ram issue id imagine id experience problems with more than one application though.