A New Patch, And A New Crash...
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Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24359Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24359Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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1. So there I was, playing a game on ns_eclipse with massive ownage for the Aliens. We raped and raped and raped, and before you knew it, the game was over. I came back into the readyroom, a bunch of people started talking, then BOOM. It happened. The sounds just started looping. I tried it alt+tab, but no dice. I tried to ctrl+alt+delete, but no dice. After continuosly trying stuff to shut down hl.exe without restarting for about 15 minutes, I gave up. I restarted. I figured it was just a one time glitch, and went off to pug.
2. There I was, pugging. We had just taken down fusion hive on ns_tanith, I was hanging around Cargo fighting off Fades and Skulks, hopping around the room like a madman, having fun. BOOM. The looping again. I tried alt+tabing in vain and I tried ctrl+alt+delete in vain, no results. However, this time, after a while of moaning to myself, I got a BSOD where it some stuff about how something had entered a continuous loop and Windows could not continue. Ctrl+alt+delete once again, and I restarted. Good half, we lost with gimped teams.
3. It was the next half of the pug, and I had just gotten back in time to play. I was Fade, and around 3 minutes or so, I went Fade and started having fun. The time was about 5:30 and I was attacking the res tower in Chemical when BOOM. It happened. Again. I tried it all again, and I got my BSOD again, and I restarted again.
This seems to be a pretty nasty crash. Since I didnt get any crashes like this in 3.0b4 and have only gotten them in the hours after I got 3.0b4a I assume it *must* be an issue with the new patch. Please figure this out ASAP so that I could get to pugging without crashing.
2. There I was, pugging. We had just taken down fusion hive on ns_tanith, I was hanging around Cargo fighting off Fades and Skulks, hopping around the room like a madman, having fun. BOOM. The looping again. I tried alt+tabing in vain and I tried ctrl+alt+delete in vain, no results. However, this time, after a while of moaning to myself, I got a BSOD where it some stuff about how something had entered a continuous loop and Windows could not continue. Ctrl+alt+delete once again, and I restarted. Good half, we lost with gimped teams.
3. It was the next half of the pug, and I had just gotten back in time to play. I was Fade, and around 3 minutes or so, I went Fade and started having fun. The time was about 5:30 and I was attacking the res tower in Chemical when BOOM. It happened. Again. I tried it all again, and I got my BSOD again, and I restarted again.
This seems to be a pretty nasty crash. Since I didnt get any crashes like this in 3.0b4 and have only gotten them in the hours after I got 3.0b4a I assume it *must* be an issue with the new patch. Please figure this out ASAP so that I could get to pugging without crashing.
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On another not, I was playing ns_lost a earlier today and EVERYONE was crashing, anyone else had the same problem?
Also if people "block" the rine-start doors in ns_eclipse (about 3 marines at once, it will send pings up and over 200 and the 56kers to overflow.
Ill try what you said about changing it so it doesnt restart though.
same practicly
but i havn't seen this ><
Ill try what you said about changing it so it doesnt restart though. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That was a little too strong <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Make love, not war D:
The devs might need more information about your configuration, so that if other people have the same problem, they can track the causes.
Maybe because NS is becoming more advanced technically. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Could always make sure you are not overclocking your video card or anything, I've had most HL reboots/BSOD's caused by video card overclocking. But still get this prob in NS, not overclocking anymore.
The lock up of the game and looping of the sound happens randomly. If lucky, it will happen after an hour, but usually 15 mins or less.
When requesting tech support please provide full system stats, including:
- CPU: XP1800 AMD
- RAM: DDR 768
- Sound and graphics: Hercules XP Gametheater / Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 128ram
- Operating system: Win2K Pro (All updated)
- Graphics mode: OPENGL: 1024/768
- Random locking up of game and looping of sound, can only get out of NS by rebooting PC.
- NoEAX
- HL and STEAM
- Only happens on latest NS version!
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Anyone have any ideas?!
OS: Windows 2000 SP4
MoBo: Syntax (ie, Generic)
Processor: AMD 2400XP
RAM: 256MB SDRAM
Video: GeForce II MX
Graphics Mode: OpenGL at 1024x768, Windowed, 16-bit color depth
Sound: SoundBlaster Live!
EAX: No way! (I think EAX makes things sound worse)
HL Version: Steam
Lowering the hardware acceleration seems to have fixed the problem; Thanks go to Raptor. I used to crash regularly, every 45 minutes or so, but I have just played for nearly three hours straight. Not sure why these problems would start cropping up now, but, well, oh well... Coding something as large as NS means that things are going to go awry from time to time. (o:
One of the benefits of running in windowed mode (Aside from being able to easily Alt-Tab out to ICQ et al.) is that I can just right click on Half-Life in the task bar, click close, reset gamma, and start everything right up again.
Just a shame I've had to lower the sound quality <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I will try this acceleration fix..
The lock up of the game and looping of the sound happens randomly. If lucky, it will happen after an hour, but usually 15 mins or less.
When requesting tech support please provide full system stats, including:
- CPU: XP1800 AMD
- RAM: DDR 768
- Sound and graphics: Hercules XP Gametheater / Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 128ram
- Operating system: Win2K Pro (All updated)
- Graphics mode: OPENGL: 1024/768
- Random locking up of game and looping of sound, can only get out of NS by rebooting PC.
- NoEAX
- HL and STEAM
- Only happens on latest NS version!
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same thing
it does it completely outa nowhere
ive reformatted 3 times...
cpu stats:
amd athlon xp processor model 1700 (1.47 ghz)
512mb SyncDRAM
Operating System: Xp home
Radeon 7500 agp (QW) internal DAC(350mhz) 64mb
OpenGL 1024 x 768 not windowed 32 bit color
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Computer freezes, cant do anything... can happen within minutes of joining game or 2 hours after i start playing... game freezes,comp freezes.
Yes running EAX.
Half-life retail
Steam
NS 3.0 b4a, its done it on earlyer versions aswell tho.
PLEASE, Suggestions?
can i do anything to my video card/ tweak settings? anything?
i just got another video card because i thought it was my resolution
sometimes i dont even have my sound on(volumeallthewaydown) when im playing and it still locks up and loops sound if sound was playing when it locks up
if it is soundcard related can anyone recommend something that will do the job well/ will leave me with money from my check to buy beer and weed
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Just found out that this crash is nothing to do with NS. Was playing TS 2.1 and it crashed as well - same lock up.
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this is true.. it happens in ANY game on ANY map with steam
Win 2000 K!
Get XP or go back to Win 98. Rarely see anyone running 98 or XP with problems.
For all, this site has many useful tips and tweaks, even for those who don't have problems. Found it on one of the other tech support questions.
When I ran the padefile defrag it found about 6 or so fragments. Also I had recently running ESF. The tips here solved my problems.
<a href='http://www.readyroom.org/rrfeatures/tweak/perfguide_1.php' target='_blank'>http://www.readyroom.org/rrfeatures/tweak/perfguide_1.php</a>