Keeps crashing before finishing loading
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Join Date: 2012-10-16 Member: 162510Members, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2012-10-16 Member: 162510Members, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow
@Ironhorse I just came back from about a week away from ns2... I tried doing the optimizing thing when I first opened the updated game. Crash. I thought maybe a one time thing. Tried again... CRASH. Tried again but this time I set priority to high in task manager, optimization worked. OK... I then tried joining servers... kept crashing before I was able to join (during the compile). I even tried creating a listen server with no luck. Keeps crashing before I'm able to finish compiling. It crashes with a "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library - Runtime Error". Had a similar error during build 253-254, but I could very occasionally play on servers if I was very lucky. I have a 3770K cpu @ 4.70 GHz, a GTX 660 OC video card, and 16 GB of ram running at 2400 MHz. I've attached the tech support zip that I got after running it after the crash. Thanks for the help.
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On a possibly related note, I've also been blue screened twice today while trying to join servers... this never happens like ever to my computer, but ns2 is special.
It only occurs during the loading process when the map is changing or I'm joining a server. Why would this start happening now?
I've had this experience a lot this week as well, but it stopped once I turned the AC back on and stopped letting my system get so hot... I'm not really sure if it's the game or just my hardware. It's on the radar at least, but for now we don't have any real info to go on as there's not enough conclusive evidence that it's actually the game's fault.
I don't think that's the case for me... Using a Corsair H100i cooling system. My CPU barely gets to 65 C when running stress tests. Also this occurs during loading so the temps shouldn't be that high right?
Yeah, that's a good point. I've only had the bluescreen on load happen to me once, but it was exactly as the map finished loading and as the load screen disappeared so the timing seemed a bit suspicious to me. We'll see if we can figure it out but like I said we have almost no data on this one so it could be a bit before we even begin to get a lead (and that's assuming the problem is in NS2).
For what it's worth I just upgraded my nVidia drivers last Thursday, and I've heard scuttlebutt from friends that have had some crashes since they updated as well. Rumors, though, so don't put too much stock into that. Unless I'm misreading your dxdiag it looks like you have the same drivers, so you could try a rollback and see if that works (I haven't gotten around to it yet but I haven't had the crash in a few days either).
Max has been doing quite a lot of engine optimization work this week on 258 so it's entirely possible this is already fixed somewhere in the internal build.