Need Some Help Here

[Badgerman of DOOM]

Alright, I just got L4D2. The game runs fine with only one issue- I cannot see the other survivors or any uncommon Infected fully. For the survivors, I can see their clothing, but their heads are just patches of hair. The uncommon infected are either totally invisible or very, very transparent. Other than that it runs like a dream. This laptop also runs L4D flawlessly. So, can anybody help me find out why this is happening?

[Badgerman of DOOM]

Bump, and with screenshots that show the problem.

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/...aems/L4D2/

[CaffeinePowered]

This befuddles me, have you tried updating all your drivers?

[HeK]

Wow, thats kinda awesome.

Update video drivers, play around with texture and model quality settings?

[Badgerman of DOOM]

HeK, I messed around with the settings and pretty much nothing happened. I'll fiddle some more.

Also, I'll update my drivers, see if it helps.

EDIT- Updated drivers, no change except that I can hear halfway through the opening video now. Validating Steam files again, seeing if it will help. All graphical things on medium, paged pool usage on high.

EDIT THE SECOND- 1 file failed to validate, this has happened like 3 times.

[Neonie]

The background of your photobucket is zetta slow.

Also, smoker actually has some degree of terror when it's transparent. Fucking creepy yo.

[Surf314]

HeK, I messed around with the settings and pretty much nothing happened. I'll fiddle some more.

Also, I'll update my drivers, see if it helps.

EDIT- Updated drivers, no change except that I can hear halfway through the opening video now. Validating Steam files again, seeing if it will help. All graphical things on medium, paged pool usage on high.

EDIT THE SECOND- 1 file failed to validate, this has happened like 3 times.

Maybe you should delete and reinstall?

[copulatingduck]

delete the file/gcf that keeps failing to validate, save the rest. saves you from having to download n-GB all over agian

[Badgerman of DOOM]

I think I will try to reinstall again.
EDIT- I did, no change.

Settings for video are:
Aspect Ratio 16:10 (widescreen)
Resolution  1280x800
Display Mode fullscreen
Anti-Aliasing Mode none
Filtering Mode Bilinear
Wait For Vertical Sync enabled (double buffered)
Shader Detail low
Effect Detail low
Model/Texture Detail medium
Paged Pool Memory Available high

and they're the recommended settings.

[Badgerman of DOOM]

Ohai, a bump because I went on nVidia and it seems Window's Update did not see a newish driver. Installing after this song, hopefully it'll work.

WELL DON'T THAT BEAT ALL.

[at0m]

You fail for thinking Windows Update had the newest driver.

Also, did updating the drivers finally fix the problem? Looking at your screenshots, its definitely a texturing problem since you're getting some of the lightmaps but not the object textures themselves (thats whats making things look translucent).

Also^2, if you've got one GCF that keeps getting corrupted, make sure your Antivirus software is off and try playing again. Failing that, you may have a HDD thats starting to flake out on you ;x