left 4 dead troubles...again

[Ph?bus]

ok, so this time, it starts up, then immediately goes to a black screen, and my monitor says MODE NOT SUPPORTED.
how do i look at/change the settings without starting up the game?
(ie in the cfg folder)

 

[giraffe]

It looks like your monitor doesn't like the default resolution that left4dead sets: 1600x1200. The stuff below is how to set it to a lower resolution.

The directory is, starting from your Steam folder:

steamapps >> common >> left 4 dead >> left4dead >> cfg >> video.txt

The file should look something like this:

"VideoConfig"
{
	"setting.cpu_level"			"1"
	"setting.gpu_level"			"1"
	"setting.mat_antialias"			"4"
	"setting.mat_aaquality"			"0"
	"setting.mat_forceaniso"		"0"
	"setting.mat_vsync"			"1"
	"setting.mat_triplebuffered"		"0"
	"setting.mat_grain_scale_override"	"1.000000"
	"setting.mat_monitorgamma"		"2.200000"
	"setting.gpu_mem_level"			"1"
	"setting.mem_level"			"2"
	"setting.mat_queue_mode"		"-1"
	[U]"setting.defaultres"[/U]			[U]"1680"[/U]
	[U]"setting.defaultresheight"[/U]		[U]"1050"[/U]
	[U]"setting.aspectratiomode"[/U]		[U]"2"[/U]
	"setting.fullscreen"			"1"
	"setting.nowindowborder"		"0"
}

For the underlined values, try substituting:

"setting.defaultres" "1024"
"setting.defaultresheight" "768"
"setting.aspectratiomode" "1"

 

[Ph?bus]

thanks a lot for the help, very much appreciated