NS freezes when I try and join a server

locallyunscene

<div class="IPBDescription">:- E</div>I've tried joining directly from the server browser and loading up NS and then trying to join a server. In the former case the screen goes black and NS is unresponsive. I have to alt-tab out and end hl.exe. With loading up first I see the normal server info box pop up for a second, but once it goes away the screen doesn't change and everything is unresponsive. Again I have to kill NS. Happened for the first time today, which is weird because I played NS this weekend.

Windows Vista 32 bit
Intel Q6600
4 gigs of ram
GeForce 8800 GTS

xtremecore

You've tried setting affinity to 0?

How to set processor affinity for applications in windows vista?

* Open windows Task Manager. Right click on the Taskbar of your windows vista desktop and select Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows Task Manager

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Set processor affinity to a process (application) in windows vista through windows task manager


* Click on the Processes tab
* Click on the Show processes from all users button, at the bottom
* Click the Continue button for UAC prompt
* Right click the process (application) whose processor affinity you want to change
* Click Set Affinity
* Check the CPU(s) that you want the process (application) to run on and click OK

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Set processor affinity by choosing the CPU(s) that want the process (application) to run on in windows vista

locallyunscene

Haven't tried this yet because my computer's been borken. Will test it tomorrow if I can.