Beeping & Choking
MalignantMouse
Join Date: 2012-12-05 Member: 174269Members
Join Date: 2012-12-05 Member: 174269Members
Hi folks,
Did some searching, only found the super old posts here and here, but no useful responses.
The game runs fine, until something happens (last time it seemed to be triggered by jetpack flight), and from that point on, I get periodic 5-7 beep sequences, each of which is accompanied by a little choke/lag/stutter, certainly long enough to disrupt play. From the point of triggering, there's also one other weird symptom: I can't type. I can open chat, or the console, but typing either won't appear, or will appear in gibberish. I checked my language panel, but it hadn't accidentally triggered (nor was it writing in any of the languages it might accidentally have been switched to).
Restarting the program resets it, but that's not exactly the permanent solution I'm hoping for.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
-MM
Did some searching, only found the super old posts here and here, but no useful responses.
The game runs fine, until something happens (last time it seemed to be triggered by jetpack flight), and from that point on, I get periodic 5-7 beep sequences, each of which is accompanied by a little choke/lag/stutter, certainly long enough to disrupt play. From the point of triggering, there's also one other weird symptom: I can't type. I can open chat, or the console, but typing either won't appear, or will appear in gibberish. I checked my language panel, but it hadn't accidentally triggered (nor was it writing in any of the languages it might accidentally have been switched to).
Restarting the program resets it, but that's not exactly the permanent solution I'm hoping for.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
-MM
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Never heard of NS2 Beeping... that sounds like windows.. and holding down the shift key or some other activating key will produce this beep.. and ofc a windows popup may interrupt your game?
not overheating?
It's not a temp issue. My fan's operating fine, my temps are cool, and I've played NS2 (and other graphics-intensive programs) for hours on end with earlier builds and not had any issues. This has only started happening to me this week, and I haven't the slightest what else to check.
Thanks for the input so far, though, folks. Keep it coming!
Does your mouse become jittery/unresponsive at the same time?
Something like this when you get beeping and an unresponsive keyboard is something wrong with your computer, and not necessarily with the game. So we need to try to pinpoint what is what to help find a solution.
Mine beeps when I hold down keys like the E key for marines to build stuff or the shift key to be silent when playing skulk. Like MalignantMouse have stated, if I exit from the game and restart the game everything is back to normal.
I want to say it is more of a windows thing, but I should not be having access to those windows short-cut keys while in-game and I don't know what key combinations are causing it either. Hope someone has encountered this before and have a solution.
I'm not running mods.
Input language keyboard. For Windows I think some sort of comb like Shift+Ctrl will switch to another input language that the game may not recognize. You cannot change back to your default language while in NS2, so the only option is to restart the game to fix the issue. So if it's vital that you have to use the key combo that is set for the input language, then you can change those key combos for it and still be able to enjoy the game with those you are using.
The key repeat rate for your keyboard. If you go into your control panel for the keyboard, look to see what the repeat rate is set at. If it is set at the fastest setting, try lowering it down a bit and see if that helps.
Thanks to all assistance.