Playing NS2 Without Actually Playing....... Help.
IZAK
Australia Join Date: 2015-06-27 Member: 205815Members
Australia Join Date: 2015-06-27 Member: 205815Members
So. Ive tried everything. I have a temporary fix, but not a proper one. Here is my issue.
About a week ago, NS2 thought it would have some fun, and crash. Cool. No problems restarting, no issues in game after that. Until i went to close steam..... After successfully exiting NS2, as in there are no processes running, nothing, I am on my desktop about to exit steam. I get a warning telling me I must first exit NS2. I check my steam friends and low and behold, it thinks I'm still in there, chomping on marines. When i am not. So i killed steam's processes, and turn off my PC. The next day, trying to start NS2, I start steam, try to start NS2, and it thinks, before I've even found the game in my giant games list, that I'm already there playing.
Ive tried getting your Techsupport.exe to run on multiple occasions to no avail. It sits open for hours doing nothing after "scanning installation". And my only fix that lets me do anything, is starting NS2.exe manually via either cmd, or going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Natural Selection 2. Then closing it, to which point steam thinks its closed until I restart steam. Ive had this problem since about the 19th or 20th of June, to date. My PC has been restarted multiple times since the issue arose, and has been off since Tuesday, until today my time of posting. Any help would be lovely. This is my last resort, I've tried everything I can think of.....
About a week ago, NS2 thought it would have some fun, and crash. Cool. No problems restarting, no issues in game after that. Until i went to close steam..... After successfully exiting NS2, as in there are no processes running, nothing, I am on my desktop about to exit steam. I get a warning telling me I must first exit NS2. I check my steam friends and low and behold, it thinks I'm still in there, chomping on marines. When i am not. So i killed steam's processes, and turn off my PC. The next day, trying to start NS2, I start steam, try to start NS2, and it thinks, before I've even found the game in my giant games list, that I'm already there playing.
Ive tried getting your Techsupport.exe to run on multiple occasions to no avail. It sits open for hours doing nothing after "scanning installation". And my only fix that lets me do anything, is starting NS2.exe manually via either cmd, or going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Natural Selection 2. Then closing it, to which point steam thinks its closed until I restart steam. Ive had this problem since about the 19th or 20th of June, to date. My PC has been restarted multiple times since the issue arose, and has been off since Tuesday, until today my time of posting. Any help would be lovely. This is my last resort, I've tried everything I can think of.....
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Close steam.
Delete ClientRegistry.blob
Re-open steam.
Tell me what happens then.
I'll see what I can find out.
EDIT:
Try closing steam and deleting GameOverlayRenderer.log
Then restart steam and see if that works.
Still no dice
Did you enable library sharing? is your account hacked? etc
Nahh, if that was the case, my tf2 shit would be long gone. haha.
There has been a development though. Upon exiting NS2 once manually started, sometimes this causes a crash in ns2. And reporting this crash causes my pc to freeze up for an hour or 2. Then i have to do a hard reset.....
I mean, if you even restarted your pc there is 0 chance your client is still running.
Installed NS2 for the first time in a long time and poof, after playing the game for a bit, I have absolutely no processes related to NS2 running, and yet steam says I am playing NS2.
I am about to do deeper debugging but I thought I should highlight having this issue as well.. As it is odd that the only other time I have ever heard of this was in this thread.
But if you restart the only thing I can think of is the cloud upload.