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Please click on the “UPDATES” tab.Īt the bottom, be sure to uncheck “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for Left 4 Dead 2”. Do not launch the game until told to! With that being said, you should still have your “Left 4 Dead 2 – Properties” window open. Going forward, note that all of these launch parameters will be temporary. console will force the game to show the console, it also prevents a startup map (see: Half Life 2 title screen) from being loaded which allows for a faster startup time. However, it doesn’t work properly without doing something first which will be explained later. autoconfig restores all settings, video, controls, scripts, sounds, and more, to its default. nosound is self explanatory, there will be no sound which is temporary. safe sets your game to windowed mode, default refresh rate, and force disabled anti-aliasing. novid does not load any introduction videos for you, allowing a faster launch time. If you’d like an explanation on what each launch parameter does, please continue reading this paragraph, if not, please skip to the next paragraph.

In the text field, enter, without quotations: “-novid -safe -nosound -autoconfig -console” and then click “OK”. Click it, and another dialogue window will pop up. Simply by going to Left 4 Dead 2 listed in your Steam Library, right-clicking it and selecting “Properties…”, you should see a button that says “SET LAUNCH OPTIONS…”. The game has been out for over 10 years and if you messed up something as a newbie when you first installed the game, you may still be suffering the consequences of that!Įvery change you made to its settings whether it’s through its options menu, a mod/workshop addon that touched your settings maliciously or not, or modifying your autoexec.cfg or other configuration files in the Left 4 Dead 2 game folder, is kept in your game, preserved, on the Steam Cloud which can be transferred to your other computers resulting in the same experience, which can also mean you will run into the same problems unless the proper steps are taken.

Especially as a longtime Left 4 Dead 2 player, it’s important to keep that in mind. Those things mentioned above came with your current installation of Left 4 Dead 2 on your Steam account, thus making your copy of Left 4 Dead 2 heavily modified.

All of your settings synced with Steam Cloud.

You do have to be mindful of the worst offenders below when it comes to reinstalling/fixing your game which will be addressed later: Believe it or not, you can get a fresher “copy” of the Left 4 Dead 2 without deleting and reinstalling everything. The number one thing to do when a game is given a major update is to make sure your copy of the game is as clean as possible especially when it comes to its default settings.