Simple Can't Play

chubbysteve

<div class="IPBDescription">NS has stopped working...</div> Hi. To start with here are my system specs:
Dell dimension 8100
1.3ghz intel p4
32mb Geforce2 MX with (not too sure about this...) 4.13.01.3082 drivers
direct X 8.1
And thats about it I think... oh
Windows ME

I got NS and could play it just like that no trouble with it etc. I have since played all the maps, got the nstr, had some non- too fatal trouble with particle system effects. Then I got The new map by chromeangel (I place no blame there by the way, it just may help in pin pointing the problem.) When I played it everything was fine. Then I found a server with it on and when that changed map to caged, hl crashed with 'fmod.dll'. Having seen the post here about fmod.dll I tried to change the sound to basic. No success there.

Then I thought fair enough, it must be because of server stress or something. I restarted and went straight into caged. Same crash. Since then I have not been able to play NS. Any map, joining a server or just loading a map in the console. What happens is the map runs for a couple of seconds then freezes. You can see the mouse but no command quits and I have to restart (not crtl+alt+del)

I have so far done a live update for norton anti virus, and will do a scan disk soon (oh yeah... see if my drivers are up to date too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->). I think it's more of a global thing because a screen saver, dxdiag and explorer just failed too. I'm going to blow the **obscenity** up if this is a slow working virus of some kind.

Any help greatly apprieciated (although IE will have crashed too by that time <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> )

Good news: It's not global. It's only effecting the official ns maps. I can still play my (test) maps and 11th hr. As for drivers I just got some new ones from nvidia version:40.72. will install after posting this.

ctx

New Nvidia drivers messed up my HL, I had to uninstall them.

Cyborgguineapig

Guess what this was my exact problem Steve. From what you said, you were able to play fine with NS up to a point and then it suddenly started freezing and crashing. This is what I did however I am not 100% sure that it cured my problem for its only been two uneventful crash days since the last crash. I did a scandisk which did nothing, I defregmented which did nothing.
I see you have a different version windows that I do(which is 98) but the same procedure can prob be done. All I did was go into system info and went to tools and did directx diagnostics tool. In there I simply set the hardware sound acceleration from FULL to STANDARD. So far I havn't gotten and more crashes. I don't know if it is really the computer for many people have been crashing in NS with completely different computers and sound cards. It may be just an NS thing because I never had this prob with any other HL mod. Hope that helps. I'm prob jinxing myself and will have HL crash in two minutes from now. But I was like you, NS ran fine for the first week and then suddenly it started crashing.

chubbysteve

didn't help. I think I'll have a good look at all the solutions people have posted on these forums.


One more of my cpu info: I run openGL 800*600 with no problems, well, usually. I might just try running D3d and see if I can play then...

chubbysteve

Uninstall/reinstall NS. Works.