Obby's FULL NUKE NS2 GUIDE (Only way to be sure)

Obraxis · August 2013

Hi there.

I've noticed a number of people on the Tech forums have various different issues, which could be fixed by following these next steps:

Disable all mods from within NS2 first, and unsubscribe from any in your Mods list. (You must go through steam to properly unsubscribe!)

Then.....

Delete NS2 from Steam. Then do a manual NS2 Cleanup (this is not done when Steam deletes NS2 from your Library) like follows:

1) Delete NS2 from Steam the normal way.
2) Go to your hidden folder where settings are saved C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming and Delete the 'Natural Selection 2' folder.
3) Go to your SteamApps\common Directory and make sure you delete 'natural selection 2'
4) Restart your PC (to be on the safe side)
5) Reinstall NS2 fresh from a new download.

Try those steps. Chances are, your NS2 is now working fine!

If that does not help then post a thread with your issue, with as much evidence as possible (screenshots/video) and also run techsupport.exe in your NS2 Steam Directory. Then upload it somewhere for us to see & report back.

Thanks all!

GhoulofGSG9 · August 2013

Doesn't nuke settings stored at Steam Cloud steam/userdat/<steamid>/4920

and verifying should do the reinstall with deleting all mods as it compares all hashes and replaces corrupted files.

Obraxis · August 2013

GhoulofGSG9 wrote: »

Doesn't nuke settings stored at Steam Cloud steam/userdat/<steamid>/4920 and verifying should do the reinstall with deleting all mods as it compares all hashes and replaces corrupted files.

Clearly, you've never had to deal with the amount of different NS2 problems I have.

You can uncheck steam cloud use easily in Steam settings. Verifying Game cache works half the time only. The rest of the time, my guide will work fine.

My guide still stands

GhoulofGSG9 · August 2013

Obraxis wrote: »

GhoulofGSG9 wrote: »

Doesn't nuke settings stored at Steam Cloud steam/userdat/<steamid>/4920 and verifying should do the reinstall with deleting all mods as it compares all hashes and replaces corrupted files.

Clearly, you've never had to deal with the amount of different NS2 problems I have.

You can uncheck steam cloud use easily in Steam settings. Verifying Game cache works half the time only. The rest of the time, my guide will work fine.

My guide still stands

Doesn't meant to be rude its just unchecking steam cloud won't reset bindings and there were some mods messing with these files. And ofc verfying the gdc wont install the dxsetups.

Ghosthree3 · September 2013

Verify is stupid, I have corrupted a file on purpose and attempted to verify to see if the file would be restored by steam once, it "said" that a file was corrupt and would be redownloaded (could have been a different file I really don't know) but the file didn't get fixed. The only way to be sure that steam is replacing the file is to delete it. If you don't know which files to delete delete a bunch/all of them (obviously a specific bunch). Eg. if ui/crosshairs.dds fails consistency check and you haven't modified it, go delete THAT file, THEN verify, should be good, if it's still not working then the server is messed up or you have way deeper issues.

Kilo · September 2013

Guys you both have vaild points and sugestions, why not try the (faster) verify method first, then failing that try the fresh re-install method

Jones108 · September 2013

Any idea how this works on Linux?

Confused · September 2013

@jones in linux it works completely the same way. The folders are different but hte solution is the same. Instead of c:\programs files, steam installs to ~/.local/share/Steam and ns2 settings are in ~/.config/Natural Selection 2 instead of %appdata%/Natural Selection 2

Achilles · October 2013

I verified game cache and did a few of those other steps and haven't had any freezes since. Played a good 3 hours last night, everything ran very smoothly.

If I were a betting man, my money would definitely be on that optimization hiccup where the game ran it twice. Just for info, I did alt+tab while it was running, so that may have caused problems (though I think a lot of people must alt tab while waiting.) Probably best not to do this and just let the game do it's thing. Thanks guys.

Twig · November 2013

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

BabblerKing · October 2015

Quickly made a thing:
Batch script that will fully nuke NS2. Easy to use.
Might wanna sticky that.

Can't be uploaded to forum. Had to put on ftp. If it displays as text just save to a .bat or .cmd file.

lordtankalot · June 2017

Obraxis wrote: »

Hi there.

I've noticed a number of people on the Tech forums have various different issues, which could be fixed by following these next steps:

Disable all mods from within NS2 first, and unsubscribe from any in your Mods list. (You must go through steam to properly unsubscribe!)

Then.....

Delete NS2 from Steam. Then do a manual NS2 Cleanup (this is not done when Steam deletes NS2 from your Library) like follows:

1) Delete NS2 from Steam the normal way.
2) Go to your hidden folder where settings are saved C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming and Delete the 'Natural Selection 2' folder.
3) Go to your SteamApps\common Directory and make sure you delete 'natural selection 2'
4) Restart your PC (to be on the safe side)
5) Reinstall NS2 fresh from a new download.

Try those steps. Chances are, your NS2 is now working fine!

If that does not help then post a thread with your issue, with as much evidence as possible (screenshots/video) and also run techsupport.exe in your NS2 Steam Directory. Then upload it somewhere for us to see & report back.

Thanks all!

How do i find hidden folder?

Handschuh · June 2017

Type %appdata% in your fileexplorer or go to http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+appdata

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Obby's FULL NUKE NS2 GUIDE (Only way to be sure)

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