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que:
sometimes when i try opening the game up (through steam or shortcut) it will tell me the game is unavailable. i dont understand what that means. anyone know what this would mean?

do i need to have half life 2:deathmatch installed?

Rodney 1.666:

--- Quote from: Viashino Cutthroat on January 25, 2010, 07:57:23 pm ---"Microsoft Security"
Ouch! My ass, I just laughed it off.
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Wake[of]theBunT:
I use "adaware" from lavasoft and "spybot search and destroy". I dont have an all purpose antivirus app running realtime. If i think I got hit with one, I do a series of checks and free scans per advice from sites like techsupportforum etc.

on topic :

you might need to re-install all things of steam and source files, and when you got it all installed again make sure to do the check integrity function for all games installed.

Enzo.Matrix:

--- Quote from: Wake[of]theBunT on January 26, 2010, 08:57:28 pm ---I use "adaware" from lavasoft and "spybot search and destroy"

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omfg, I havn't used that stuff since the early 00s

V!NCENT:
Stuttering is when upgrading to Windows 7. I believe it must be that your sound card is not accelerated by hardware and thus heavy CPU usage dropping you entire system to a crawl.

Sound in NT6.x is semi-realtime. So when doing 7.1 surround sound semi-realtime you are going to get stuttering sound and bad CPU performance (notice that you graphics driver itself runs on your CPU and then sends some pre-calculated stuff to you GPU that then processes the data further).

Have you tried a cheap ass designed for Vista/Windows 7 sound card or a USB headset with a soundcard in it?

My dad got this shit with various games when he upgraded from XP to Windows 7 on his laptop that had software drivers for XP ("Designed For Windows XP).

My guess is that it's your soundcard driver being able to somehow output sound but with a very crappy driver.

Maybe disable your soundcard in the BIOS and uninstall the driver and try again? If your graphics do not stutter then you should either downgrade to pre-Vista or buy a new sound card.

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