Game freezes at loading state

supsu

<div class="IPBDescription">someone please help :<</div>I really don't know what's up with this, I just join on some server and it won't let me in and just freezes my ns2 completely. It doesn't do this on every server which is even weirder just few of them.

Specified steps on what happens:
- I join on some server e.g. team exertus'
- Everything goes smoothly until ít goes to LOADING... state and even in there it loads for a while.
- Game freezes completely and nothing happens and even alt+tab won't let me into windows.

Computer specs:
- c2d e6750
- radeon hd 4800
- 8gt ddr3

Am I the only one? What's up with this? Am I dying? Someone help :<

DFC

this game can't deal with alt tabbing properly, you have to open task manager and end process if you want to close the game after alt tab, (for me alt tabbing causes game crash into send error report) other i dunno.

My game freezes when i try to use "pick up game" so i used task manager to close it

IronHorse

Look at the console (~ key) and see what it says.
You might be downloading 3rd party maps (can take a while depending how many, as you download ALL that the server has, at one time)

supsu

<a href="http://mouhez.net/paska/console.jpg" target="_blank">http://mouhez.net/paska/console.jpg</a>

This is all I see, nothing useful :< It just freezes at that state and doesn't load anything at all.

IronHorse

Check the log file in %appdata%/natural selection2/ and see if theres any errors after that.
If not:

Delete your cache in %appdata%/natural selection2/cache by deleting the files in there.

Then uninstall (remove the files through steam) NS2 and then reinstall it.
Install latest version of video drivers

If that doesnt work PM me

Syknik

Happens to me as well, however, it'll be random servers. The other day I was trying to join the nxzl private server, all my teammates could go in and I couldn't would end up crashing at "Loading...". However, I could connect to my own teams private server, and every other server I tried connecting too, except for that one server. Now today I tried to connect to the Exertus Private server, and it'd crash, however, same as before, I could connect to every other server I tried, just not that one.

exit: Shouldn't say 'crash' it freezes up and I have to end process.

_Necro_

There seem to be some problems with custom maps. Some server run them and some clients have problems with connecting to this server. Even when they are running an official map at the time you connect. A solution is to load every custom map in the steam workshop of NS2. As described in this thread: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=120106" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....howtopic=120106</a>

twiliteblue

<!--quoteo(post=1968547:date=Aug 29 2012, 02:44 PM:name=Syknik)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Syknik @ Aug 29 2012, 02:44 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1968547"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Happens to me as well, however, it'll be random servers. The other day I was trying to join the nxzl private server, all my teammates could go in and I couldn't would end up crashing at "Loading...". However, I could connect to my own teams private server, and every other server I tried connecting too, except for that one server. Now today I tried to connect to the Exertus Private server, and it'd crash, however, same as before, I could connect to every other server I tried, just not that one.

exit: Shouldn't say 'crash' it freezes up and I have to end process.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The situation you describes happens to me too. Except my game only hangs upon joining Monash servers. I can join other servers with under 350 ping with no problem.

supsu

I think that did it. Thanks Necro<3

twiliteblue

<!--quoteo(post=1968765:date=Aug 30 2012, 02:33 AM:name=_Necro_)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (_Necro_ @ Aug 30 2012, 02:33 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1968765"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There seem to be some problems with custom maps. Some server run them and some clients have problems with connecting to this server. Even when they are running an official map at the time you connect. A solution is to load every custom map in the steam workshop of NS2. As described in this thread: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=120106" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....howtopic=120106</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That worked! Thanks!

It is a problem with the steam workshop on the server, I assume?

_Necro_

Yeah, but don't know why it occures. My friend got this problem, but I never needed to load a custom map over the workshop it always worked directly over NS.