Map Change Crash

Rellix · January 2005

Everytime the map changes , I crash on the loading screen <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

NS3.0 B5

AMD 64 3200+
2*512Mb DDR RAM
Radeon x800Pro 256Mb
160Gb SATA HD
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital
Windows XP Home SP1

SloppyKisses · January 2005

This could be server side and its kicking everyone else too

is it doing this on every server?
is it also kicking other people?

Also you perhaps could have a bad install of ns, I never encountered thsi problem before, but if no one else replies to this and cant help you just reinstall. It fixes all the problems lol

Rellix · January 2005

Ill try a reinstall but its on every server and just me.

No idea it just started happening suddenlt when i started playing again - yes iv done spyware/adware/viris scans <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

Rellix · January 2005

Ok, Iv tried sevral re-installs including deleting the entire directory, rebooting and installing again.

It now crashes on game joins most of the time, Iv managed to get into one or two servers, and on every map change.

Iv manaaged to get around the map change problem by disconecting from the server before the map change and reconecting, but again it crashes sometimes.

Before I uninstalled I copied the exact gamefiles to a backup PC and it runs fine all the time, no issues <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

sluutthefeared · January 2005

I'm having the same problem. System completely crashes on map change.

BulletHead · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Jan 24 2005, 06:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Everytime the map changes , I crash on the loading screen <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

NS3.0 B5

AMD 64 3200+
2*512Mb DDR RAM
<b>Radeon x800Pro 256Mb</b>
160Gb SATA HD
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
There's your problem

NS hates ATI... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

Ricktastic · January 2005

Okay. I have a similar problem. NS just hangs whenever there's a map change, at 'Parsing game info' or something to that extent. And yes, I have an nVidia card. I've tried reinstalling, deleteing the client.dll file and reinstalling, and still no dice.

Rellix · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BulletHead @ Jan 29 2005, 02:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Jan 24 2005, 06:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Everytime the map changes , I crash on the loading screen <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

NS3.0 B5

AMD 64 3200+
2*512Mb DDR RAM
<b>Radeon x800Pro 256Mb</b>
160Gb SATA HD
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
There's your problem

NS hates ATI... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
It didnt hate my 9800 Pro.....

Yeh its the last bit of the change too, parsing data or something, id check beta 6 but my main PC is dead (see OT) and itl be a while before i get it back up.

KiddiKai · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ricktastic @ Jan 29 2005, 01:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Okay. I have a similar problem. NS just hangs whenever there's a map change, at 'Parsing game info' or something to that extent. And yes, I have an nVidia card. I've tried reinstalling, deleteing the client.dll file and reinstalling, and still no dice.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
The description of Ricktastic exactly fits to my problem. I'm able to join one server after starting the game, but if I disconnect and want to join another server, or the server I am connected to is doing a mapchange, it crashes at "Parsing game info." I then have to start the Windows Task-Manager and kill the hl.exe process in order to be able to play one round again.

My system:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
512 MB DDR RAM
Windows XP Pro

Hope somebody can help me.

Rellix · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ricktastic @ Jan 29 2005, 06:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Okay. I have a similar problem. NS just hangs whenever there's a map change, at 'Parsing game info' or something to that extent. And yes, I have an nVidia card. I've tried reinstalling, deleteing the client.dll file and reinstalling, and still no dice.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Can you list your hardware please, since KiddiKai has a similar system to me (AMD CPU and ATi graphics card) if you have only one of these components then we know better where the problem is caused.

Ricktastic · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Jan 30 2005, 02:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Can you list your hardware please, since KiddiKai has a similar system to me (AMD CPU and ATi graphics card) if you have only one of these components then we know better where the problem is caused.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Yeah, sure.

1.3GHz AMD Athlon
256MB DDR Ram
GeForce2 MX400 64MB (Driver version 66.93)
Windows XP Home SP2
Some SoundBlaster card, it says SBPCI in Device Manager.

And my entire Steam install is on an NTFS partition, while windows itself is stuck on Fat32.

Rellix · January 2005

Well we are all on Athlons but completly diffrent ones... regular athlon, XP, and 64bit.

Wonder if it could be something to do with the mobo, possible drivers, but again Im unable to check this until I fix the PC itsself.

Can you two try updating your mobo drivers along with every other driver you can find to see if this has any effect.

EDIT:

Also if your ingame and you change a setting in options does it crash, I seem to remember this happening a few times to me.

Ricktastic · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Jan 30 2005, 04:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Well we are all on Athlons but completly diffrent ones... regular athlon, XP, and 64bit.

Wonder if it could be something to do with the mobo, possible drivers, but again Im unable to check this until I fix the PC itsself.

Can you two try updating your mobo drivers along with every other driver you can find to see if this has any effect.

EDIT:

Also if your ingame and you change a setting in options does it crash, I seem to remember this happening a few times to me.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I'll check that in a few. My entire Steam install buggered up. I can't play any HL games without it freezing up at the game's BG screen (like, with the two marines in NS) with the BG music going. The little text options like Find Servers, Create Server, etc.. never appear. Yay. //sarcasm.

sluutthefeared · February 2005

Mine still crashes after re-installing, deleting the directory and re-installing again. Same problem as described by others. Only hardware in common is my Athlon.

AMD Athlon XP 2000
nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
512 MB DDR RAM
CMedia CMI8738 onboard sound
Windows XP Pro

Depot · February 2005

Just curious: what version of Metamod (if any) do you guys have installed?

Rellix · February 2005

No metamod installed to my knowledge (fresh install <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> )

But we all DO have Athlons....

Ricktastic · February 2005

Okay.. out of curiosity... try running the game with -nosound. See what happens when the map changes. HL was freezing up on me, and not reporting an error message (like what happens with NS). It turned out a few sound files were missing, and adding -nosound didn't lock it up, and allowed me to see what files were gone.

If it works, open up console and there should be little warnings about not being able to find certain sound files.

Rellix · February 2005

Suerly a re-install would fix that tho.

Rellix · February 2005

Checked into this some more, seems to be only NS that crashes on a map change.

Iv tried a few re-installs including deleting the entir directory.

Does anyone know if NS has any files it uses outwith the NS folder.

Vidtrouble · February 2005

I've got this same problem..

Pentium 4 2.60g
512mb Ram
Geforce MX5200

Vidtrouble · February 2005

Someone please help with this issue, it's HORRIBLY irritating.

And disconnecting doesnt help me, I can disconnect to join a new server and it does the same thing, "Parsing info or what not" sticks on it.

Rellix · February 2005

Well, I thought it might be something to do with the Athlon chips, but your on intel so that rules that out.

So far possible steps for a fix are:

1. Reinstall NS
2. Try again
3. Delete the NS directory
4. Install NS
4. Try again
5. Wait till we can figure out whats wrong.

Iv been doing some mock exams this week and wont be really free till tomorow afternoon to try a few things out.

On the plus It doesnt seem to happen with beta 6 so its probably already been fixed in passing, or the bug was removed accidentaly.

Map Change Crash

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