Steam games crash computer bought in 2013
I play online games. When I've had problems, it's because of the video card and some browser settings. Some games will not play on the ATI Radeon HD graphics cards and some will not play on NVIDIA cards. This is a known issue with some Steam games.
Steam users forumsin place, I went to find out what was the matter.
You should check in the section help & tips advice.
I found that my Radeon ATI\AMD video card was causing the problem. I changed to a NVIDIA card and have not had a problem with a Steam game since. If you have a mid-range graphics card, you should be able to play any game from steam. Mine is a model of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 it.
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