Ns Just Crashes Sometimes

daidalosdaidalos Join Date: 2004-05-23 Member: 28854Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">especially viewing server info</div> Hi,

NS started crashing itself. I don't know, I just start my comp, start steam, start NS and want to play. I always view the info first, so I can see whether the round has begun or not. But sometimes, it crashes my whole comp. I didn't do something special, but it does this sometime.
Sorry I can give no further info, but I have no idea why this could happen. Everything worked fine yesterday.
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  • JaspJasp Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13076Members
    Could we have a tad more info please.

    >System Specs
    >Windows Version
    >When this started occuring (After a steam update, windows update, gfx driver update etc)
    >What you have tried to fix the problem (If any)
    >Does this happen with any other mod?

    Without much info all i can suggest is to make sure you have all the windows updates.

    Upto date motherboard drivers/graphic drivers/sound drivers/perhipral drivers etc.

    Also try uninstalling NS and reinstalling, same goes for steam.

    Sorry i cant be more help, perhaps the next person will be.
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  • daidalosdaidalos Join Date: 2004-05-23 Member: 28854Members, Constellation
    Well, I never update my windows, nevar. I have windows xp SP1.
    I don't know when steam was updated the last time, but like mentioned in my post above, it started yesterday.
    athlon 2000+ xp
    sapp atlantis radeon 9800 pro
    1280mb ram
    soundblaster pci128

    But this infos are of no use, because it started doing this out of the blue. This is ridiculous.
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  • DaJMastaDaJMasta Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34750Members, Constellation
    it is an odd problem, especially since it just happened out of nowhere. I think there is some benifit to updating windows, though it took me about 6 months to do it myself, thats probably not the problem. I'd check for adware or spyware running in the background, and do a virus scan just to be sure, plus does any of the other HL or steam based games do the same thing? Cause if they do it could be a steam problem.
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  • Cujo6Cujo6 Join Date: 2004-11-01 Member: 32582Members
    That has happened to me too, just all of a sudden it locks up and you hear a sound repeating itself until it resets the computer.

    Does it ever so often, not that big of a thing but I've since updated my soundcard drivers, I have a feeling it won't be resetting anytime soon <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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