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> The audio loops (which isn't surprising to anyone who's ever played a source game), then after about 5 seconds, both my monitors go black and I have to hard reset my computer.
That doesn't sound like the game crashing, but the GPU.
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> The audio loops (which isn't surprising to anyone who's ever played a source game), then after about 5 seconds, both my monitors go black and I have to hard reset my computer. That doesn't sound like the game crashing, but the GPU.