Serious Crash Issues -> Console
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Superskulk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2560Members
Superskulk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2560Members
I have experienced serious problems when opening the console in recent versions of NS, my whole system has been freezing completely, each time requiring a restart.
I have noticed this several times when on a server, but today I was attempting to test other things locally, after a few times opening the console (sometimes as little as two) the entire system would lock up, no error message or sound, simply the NS display, frozen, unable to be closed.
This seems to be reproduceable all of the time, as another test I ran through a couple of other mods to see if the effect occured there as well. Mods tested were "The Ship" and "Science and Industry", no crashes occured in these games no matter how hard I tried so it would seem this issue is related to NS.
A quick search revealed the following post in the Tech Support forum:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83146&hl=console+crash' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...l=console+crash</a>
Going by that it would seem this bug affects the ATI 9600xt series only, though I cannot be sure. My own card is a Sapphire 9600xt, I use standard drivers thus it is not an issue with the omegas as is speculated in the above thread.
Additionally, the crashes occur in all situations, standing still, moving, turning... it is not restricted to strafing while opening the console as the title of the tech support post implies.
Now I realise that this may be an issue for the ATI dev team, but I clearly cant be sure... and the fact that it only occurs in NS would suggest NS may have a problem in it. Even if this is not the case the devs may wish to contact ATI regarding it.
To reproduce: Load up NS, click "create server", choose a map (ns_agora seemed to crash quickest for me), open and close the console using the console key several times (In one test I opened the console, entered sv_cheats 1, closed the console and then reopened it, the game would crash every time.
A Radeon 9600xt card may be required for testing, though obviously tests on other cards are recommended.
This issue did not occur in the 1.0 or 2.0 versions of the game. At least as far as I ever noticed.
In addition a search of the steam forums brought up nothing relevant.
If any further information is required please send me a private message and I will append it to this post.
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Addition: NS is running in OpenGL mode at 1024x768 32bit.
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Addition: This crash does NOT occur in D3D mode.
I have noticed this several times when on a server, but today I was attempting to test other things locally, after a few times opening the console (sometimes as little as two) the entire system would lock up, no error message or sound, simply the NS display, frozen, unable to be closed.
This seems to be reproduceable all of the time, as another test I ran through a couple of other mods to see if the effect occured there as well. Mods tested were "The Ship" and "Science and Industry", no crashes occured in these games no matter how hard I tried so it would seem this issue is related to NS.
A quick search revealed the following post in the Tech Support forum:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83146&hl=console+crash' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...l=console+crash</a>
Going by that it would seem this bug affects the ATI 9600xt series only, though I cannot be sure. My own card is a Sapphire 9600xt, I use standard drivers thus it is not an issue with the omegas as is speculated in the above thread.
Additionally, the crashes occur in all situations, standing still, moving, turning... it is not restricted to strafing while opening the console as the title of the tech support post implies.
Now I realise that this may be an issue for the ATI dev team, but I clearly cant be sure... and the fact that it only occurs in NS would suggest NS may have a problem in it. Even if this is not the case the devs may wish to contact ATI regarding it.
To reproduce: Load up NS, click "create server", choose a map (ns_agora seemed to crash quickest for me), open and close the console using the console key several times (In one test I opened the console, entered sv_cheats 1, closed the console and then reopened it, the game would crash every time.
A Radeon 9600xt card may be required for testing, though obviously tests on other cards are recommended.
This issue did not occur in the 1.0 or 2.0 versions of the game. At least as far as I ever noticed.
In addition a search of the steam forums brought up nothing relevant.
If any further information is required please send me a private message and I will append it to this post.
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Addition: NS is running in OpenGL mode at 1024x768 32bit.
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Addition: This crash does NOT occur in D3D mode.
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But, this is what happens to me (its happened 2 times, both in b5).
If I am moving, I will keep moving until I hit a wall. Then, I can still see and hear everything I should, but I cannot move, click, or anything. Its like my keyboard and mouse turn off...
I have to just manually turn off the computer... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->