Steam crashes and freezes NS2

Twig

Hi Guys

I think this is a problem with steam more that NS but you might still be able to help

lately steam has been crashing and then it freezes NS, when steam finally responds and NS is unfrozen I timeout from my game, this happens randomly and I find it very frustrating

Any help will be welcome

Tech support:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102965258/tech_support.zip

IronHorse

Mounting mod from C:/Users/Twig/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/mb89ca18_1386047544/
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Twig/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m632c1e6_1350846515/
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Twig/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m68a1272_1353997923/
Error: Mod '' contains obsolete shader files and can't be mounted:
shaders/Blur.fx
Loading config://ConsoleBindings.json
Loading config://FavoriteServers.json
Loading config://HistoryServers.json
Cooked mesh with 4946 faces, 3737 vertices
Error: Couldn't open file 'cinematics/environment/biodome/bamboo_sway_01_fixed.cinematic'
Error: Couldn't open file 'D:/build/assets/materialsrc/biodome/biodome_glass_01.material'
Error: No shader specified for material 'D:/build/assets/materialsrc/biodome/biodome_glass_01.material'
Main Menu Initialized at Version: 261
Steam Id: 59662899
Connecting to server 27.50.70.5:28015
Downloading mods
Finished downloading and installing mods
Error: Mod Holiday menu failed consistency checking and will be disabled ('lua/Main.lua' failed)
Error: Mod '' contains obsolete shader files and can't be mounted:
shaders/Blur.fx

Looks like you are running some mods. its worth ruling them out as a cause.

Be sure to de activate them all in your mods menu and then unsubscribe to all through steam workshop.
Then try running NS2 again to see if you still have this problem.

Twig

I do not think that it is the mods as steam itself is crashing, but I will give it a try tonight to see if it makes any difference.

Thanks


By the way I love Samusdroid's holiday menu

Twig

No, still didn't work, I've tried the Nuke from orbit guide and still doesn't help. re-installed steam, same thing.

Screw it, I'll just do a clean install of windows 8

IronHorse

Any Windows event errors or dumps?
Also be sure to not use any beta drivers for Windows 8

Twig

IronHorse wrote: »

Any Windows event errors or dumps?

No errors or dumps left, completely deleted win 7.

IronHorse wrote: »

Also be sure to not use any beta drivers for Windows 8

I have no choice in what drivers I get, Intel have no windows 8 drivers on their website for my board, so I am using the default drivers for the board, graphic card is the latest (non beta) driver.

Everything seems to be working fine for me now, it definitely was a steam issue.

DC_Darkling

pssst. if steam crashes then in your steam folders, there should be a dump folder with .dmp files containing info on the steam crashes in question.
Unless that also failed.