Blue screen on connect

STD-DeathHawk

P3 600mhz
Aureal 3d, ATI 7200 64mb
Win98se
OpenGL

Just before the console lifts to connect to a server, NS quits and gives me a fatal exception error with windows )(blue screen).  Any suggestions?

Moleculor

Have the latest drivers for each of your cards?

ChickenMe

yeah im getting the same problem too

p3 450 mhz
voodoo 5 64mb
288 ram
win 98 se

STD-DeathHawk

Yes, latest drivers and updates for everything.  It's just Natural Selection that is causing the blue screen as all other games are working fine.  I've switched between opengl and direct3d, and neither work with NS.

ChickenMe

same...i switched it direct 3d and even software mode...it still gives me the blue screen of death. all my other games work fine too.

MonsieurEvil

There are a couple things you can try (my suspicion is an audio problem):

Make sure you have fmod.dll in your Half-Life directory. Should be dated 8/30/2002

If so, remove the MP3 files from your \music directory in NS.

If still having problems, post here again, attaching your config.cfg file.

ChickenMe

im using the cs retail version if that matters...i found the fmod.dll file and it is dated 8/30/2002, i took out the music files and i still get the blue screen...heres my config.cfg file

MonsieurEvil

Figured it out.

In your \NS\config.cfg file, make the following change:

It will say -

<b>s_eax "0.000000"
s_a3d "0.000000" </b>

Change it to -

<b>s_eax "1"
s_a3d "1"</b>

Save the file, then connect and save the world from Skulks. Rock.

ChickenMe

well, i still see the blue..maybe it was never meant to be, oh well...im gonna try and reinstall all my drivers and what not to see if that works...thanks for the help anyway

STD-DeathHawk

Well thats what MonsieurEvil came up with over ICQ and it works for me.  Make sure you have the latest video/sound drivers is all I can suggest.

MrPsycho

I had this exact same problem, except winxp just displays a stop error instead of bsod.

Athlon XP 1700
512mb ram
64mb geforce2mx400
via 4in1 onboard audio

Changing the values MonsieurEvil mentioned corrected the problem!  Thanks!

mogstar

im havin the same problem posted all my pc specs and stuff in another topic by me, ive tried everything put here but it still doesnt work, i still get the blue screen, ill put my config.cfg file here as well see if u can see anything

any1 know where i can get aureal sound drivers from btw?

mogstar

why isnt any1 help or givin suggestions?

Raptor-X

i think its with the aureal sound cards. i have the same problem too and i have a TBS Montego II (arent aureal cards from tbs?? not sure <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo--> )

my system specs

PII 450 mhz
Geforce 4 mx 420
TBS Montego II
256 mb Ram

edit:
erm forgot.. right when the console thing lifts up it goes to the blue screen, then on the bottom is said somethin about an error with AU30WAVE.

Raptor-X

And ive tried the thing MonsieurEvil did, didn't work for me.

STD-DeathHawk

Update your Aureal Vortex drivers then at vortexofsound.com (as the company has gone out of business):

<a href="http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drivers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drivers.htm</a>

Raptor-X

holy crapamoly.. IT WORKS!!! LOL!! finally updating the drivers... thx for that site man... now... just waitin for them to release patch for servers