Ns, Steam And Windows Temp Folder...
Skyrage
Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20249Members
Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20249Members
Now, this is my problem: I recently emptied the windows temporary folder cause it's gotten really clogged up and all and it was time for a bit of cleaning up. However I also discovered that NS started crashing on me while ingame as well. I can fire the game up just fine, but at a point the HD will suddenly load furiously and I'm kicked out of the game. I didn't have this problem before. So I'm wondering whether there'd be any connection between steam, NS and the temp folder.
I can play, but I'm risking crashes everytime whereas I never had such a problem prior to the cleanup.
Anyone got any clue?
Oh, and to add: when NS crashes, I can't start it up cause I get a steam message saying that the game is currently unavaliable...only way to start again is to reboot first =\
I can play, but I'm risking crashes everytime whereas I never had such a problem prior to the cleanup.
Anyone got any clue?
Oh, and to add: when NS crashes, I can't start it up cause I get a steam message saying that the game is currently unavaliable...only way to start again is to reboot first =\
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The windows temp folders (C:\Temp, C\Windows\Temp\, C:\WinNT\Temp\, C:\Documents and settings\SkyRage\Local Settings\Temp\, whatever,) have nothing to do with NS as far as I can see.
The amusing thing though is that CD (when I try and turn it off) complains that the game is running when in fact it isn't...
Oh, and the sound kinda stutters after the crash too...this neverending annoying stutter...
Anyway, I can't figure out what's wrong....reinstalling NS didn't help either...maybe I have to do a reinstall on Steam...which I desperately wanna avoid...
Also, the reason that CD still thinks HL is running is because the game crashed and wasn't exited properly and CD was never informed.
If this is a result of hardware thrashing, there are a few things you can do to fix this. System restore, indexing and one other service I can't remember can all result in heavy hard drive usage and these can all be disabled. But before I suggest that you disable these (As system restore can be handy), can you please provide some more information?
Do you have much free space left on your hard-drive? If you are extremely low on space. When using NS, some files become uncompressed and more HDD space can be used (This was the case with quake 2 and 3 and the original HL. Can someone confirm this still happens with the steam version of HL? I would imagine it would since steam stores the files in cache's). NS may be crashing due to insufficient hard drive space.
<span style='color:red'><b>Summary: </b>To make this clear, how much hard drive space do you have remaining? NS may have insufficient hard drive space to work with.</span>
And before the temp cleanup, NS worked perfectly fine without any crashes or anything of the like...
As for my HD space, I have several gigs left so that shouldn't be a problem either.