i get this weird crash immediately on opening the client without steam (access violation). i suspect it has something to do with steam because i can open the dedicated server in the same folder just fine. on steam, i had installed and then uninstalled cs2d (i was just testing it). cs2d is currently uninstalled on steam for me.

this crash happens even with a brand new downloaded copy of cs2d (non steam).

Are you using launcher?

yea, im using the batch file the launcher made.

There is a reported bug that caused this error if you skip the intro. It's skipped by default on the launcher.