Steam L4D & L4D2 Quits Unknown Video Card Fix

So I just helped my buddy get a new computer and he ended up getting a beast. It’s a quad core, 8 gigs of RAM, 1 TB hard drive with a Nvidia Geforce GT 240 for about $570 which isn’t too bad. Anyways, he downloaded Steam and got Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Alien Swarm installed on there. Each time he double clicked on those games they would look like they were about to start and then out of the blue they would quit out and go back to the desktop. For L4D2 he would get a message saying from Steam saying “Unknown Video Card” that looked like this except the name of the video card was Geforce GT 240.

This is weird since it’s a one of the more popular cheaper ones. So the games he paid for were unplayable which is always lame and I also felt kinda like an idiot because I recommended he get this computer and now it wouldn’t even play the games. So we spent probably around 4 days on this on and off. Well, if you read my other post about how I fixed the Camtasia install freeze then this solution will make more sense. Because of what happened with Camtasia I thought to myself, “What if I disable Spyware Doctor again (he had it installed as well) would that help?” I couldn’t see how a spyware program would be messing with video games but hey, it was worth a shot. So I disabled it and yep, the game started right up and all was good. I mean I love Spyware Doctor but this two strikes in two days against it so I may have to look for something else. I mean it took me a long time to figure out both the Steam and Camtasia issues so I dunno if I’m going to get rid of it or not. Spyware Doctor has been good to me over the years so I’ll probably give it one more shot… we’ll just have to see. But anyways, it was lame it took me so long to figure out but figured it out I did and all is good. So if something isn’t working on your computer, just disable Spyware Doctor and magic will happen (: Be good people chau.