Ns 2.0 Crashed Windows Xp
Maltay
Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13926Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13926Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone have any ideas?</div> Okay, I made a similar thread due to the fact that Natural Selection 2.0 kept locking up my system and forcing me to hard reboot to get back into the Windows environment. I thought I had it fixed when I turned down the AGP BUS speed, but I was wrong. The game is still killing my computer at random intervals, and like some people said, I believe the problem may be related to sound.
I can play the game anywhere from five minutes to two hours fine, then it locks up, the screen usually turns black, and it starts looping a combination of static and whatever the ambient noise was through my speakers. I've reformated my system and installed every driver from scratch, updated to SP1 for Windows XP Professional, flashed my BIOS to the newest revision, and mucked around with the video and sound settings in both Windows and in my BIOS. I even turned down the clock speed on my processor and CAS-RAS latency to see if my overclocking attempts at all impacted my stability while within the game. For reference I am running an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ on an Epox 8RDA+ with the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX, and 1024 MB of Kingston DDR400 PC3200 RAM. Finally, the problem is not native to internet games, but persists when I try to start a LAN game and play with only myself in the game.
My reasoning for this problem being related to sound is that when the game does run stable for any extended period of time, I begin to get static at seemingly random intervals. This static is nearly identical to the static that loops through my speakers when my system does crash. Sometimes it's simply beeps and hissing, other times I get static and general interference at a volume loud enough to hurt my ears. I spoke with Creative Labs, and they were clueless, Natural Selection is the only game that this happens in. Further, I was getting this static, though not quite so regularly, when playing earlier versions of Natural Selection. Back then it would happen on a rare enough basis, perhaps once per week, that I paid it no mind and simply rejoined the server at such times.
Whoops, three thing I almost forgot. One, I am running Natural Selection 2.0 off of the retail version of Half-Life. Second, someone mentioned getting weird files written to the root directory of the drive they had Half-Life installed on, and I am getting the same now that Natural Selection 2.0 is living there. Examples of such are t1n4.1 and t1n4.j, no idea what those files are to be used for, or what purpose they might serve. Third, Natural Selection is the only game that I have this persistent problem in.
I can play the game anywhere from five minutes to two hours fine, then it locks up, the screen usually turns black, and it starts looping a combination of static and whatever the ambient noise was through my speakers. I've reformated my system and installed every driver from scratch, updated to SP1 for Windows XP Professional, flashed my BIOS to the newest revision, and mucked around with the video and sound settings in both Windows and in my BIOS. I even turned down the clock speed on my processor and CAS-RAS latency to see if my overclocking attempts at all impacted my stability while within the game. For reference I am running an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ on an Epox 8RDA+ with the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX, and 1024 MB of Kingston DDR400 PC3200 RAM. Finally, the problem is not native to internet games, but persists when I try to start a LAN game and play with only myself in the game.
My reasoning for this problem being related to sound is that when the game does run stable for any extended period of time, I begin to get static at seemingly random intervals. This static is nearly identical to the static that loops through my speakers when my system does crash. Sometimes it's simply beeps and hissing, other times I get static and general interference at a volume loud enough to hurt my ears. I spoke with Creative Labs, and they were clueless, Natural Selection is the only game that this happens in. Further, I was getting this static, though not quite so regularly, when playing earlier versions of Natural Selection. Back then it would happen on a rare enough basis, perhaps once per week, that I paid it no mind and simply rejoined the server at such times.
Whoops, three thing I almost forgot. One, I am running Natural Selection 2.0 off of the retail version of Half-Life. Second, someone mentioned getting weird files written to the root directory of the drive they had Half-Life installed on, and I am getting the same now that Natural Selection 2.0 is living there. Examples of such are t1n4.1 and t1n4.j, no idea what those files are to be used for, or what purpose they might serve. Third, Natural Selection is the only game that I have this persistent problem in.
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perhaps it has got sthing to do with the sound, but i'm not that sure anymore since i thought that i had solved the problem by turning off the eax-support.
hoping that someone can help. |arGl|