Crashing trying to join a server and exiting or restarting the client

neighbs

Date: 04/10/13
Time: 12:18:40

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Build 245
Steam initialized
Render Device: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (8.17.10.1151)
Error: SoundSystem::GetDeviceByGuid - failed to find device by GUID
Error: SoundSystem::Initialize - failed to set number of FMOD channels
Error: eventSystem->init (Error initializing output device. )
Error: SoundSystem::Initialize - Failed to initialize FMOD event system
Sound disabled
Mounting mod from C:/Users/neighbs/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m66f9038_1352735809/
Mounting mod from C:/Users/neighbs/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m658070e_1358562580/
Loading config://ConsoleBindings.json
Loading config://FavoriteServers.json
Error: SetDSPFloatParameter(getParameterInfo) (An invalid object handle was used. )
Error: SetDSPFloatParameter(getParameterInfo) (An invalid object handle was used. )
Error: SetDSPFloatParameter(getParameterInfo) (An invalid object handle was used. )
Error: SetDSPFloatParameter(getParameterInfo) (An invalid object handle was used. )
Error: SetDSPActive:setBypass() (An invalid object handle was used. )
Error: SetDSPFloatParameter(getParameterInfo) (An invalid object handle was used. )
Main Menu Initialized at Version: 245
Steam Id: 249177
Error: Couldn't load 'sound/NS2.fev'
Error: Couldn't load 'sound/NS2.fev/common/menu_loop' (project didn't exist)

^these last two lines repeat about 20 times

What I've tried:

1. Re-installing
2. Validating Cache afterwards
3. Disabling mods just causes a crash

Any information on this and a fix or some steps to try for this specific issue would be helpful. Thank you.

neighbs

I changed nothing but ran DxDiag and e-mailed it with my log.txt to Max and my game worked on the next try. After about 20 crashes attempting to play this was a strange that the problem fixed itself.