Game Suddenly Hangs Mid-game
Demerzel
Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9181Members
Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9181Members
in Tech Support
I've been playing NS since near the day of release and it's all been fine and dandy but for the last week the game has started to randomly hang mid-game. No pattern to it, it can be fine for a hour of play before it hangs or might go within 5-10mins. When it does hang, I can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL but must do a reset using the soft reset button the PC case. The frustating thing is that is was fine and I played countless hours of the game but now I can't be sure of even getting a few minutes of game time in before it hangs.
My system is WinXP, AMD XP1800+, 512Mb DDR RAM, GeForce3 Ti500, SoundBlaster Audigy and I play in OpenGL at 1280x1024 ( I think ). I've tried all the suggestions made elsewhere on threads, including the uninstall of the game and reinstall but that's not helped. I've also tried <i>-nocdaudio</i> in my commandline. I've even tried turning down the detail of the game in case that all of a sudden is a problem.
Any thoughts? I've scanned the threads to see if anything there will help but nothing has so far. I'm not anxious to go with the disable sound completely option which some seem to advocate unless I really must. Just wanted to see if there was an update, if there isn't there isn't but before I go for radical methods I want to check the simple things are all checked first.
My system is WinXP, AMD XP1800+, 512Mb DDR RAM, GeForce3 Ti500, SoundBlaster Audigy and I play in OpenGL at 1280x1024 ( I think ). I've tried all the suggestions made elsewhere on threads, including the uninstall of the game and reinstall but that's not helped. I've also tried <i>-nocdaudio</i> in my commandline. I've even tried turning down the detail of the game in case that all of a sudden is a problem.
Any thoughts? I've scanned the threads to see if anything there will help but nothing has so far. I'm not anxious to go with the disable sound completely option which some seem to advocate unless I really must. Just wanted to see if there was an update, if there isn't there isn't but before I go for radical methods I want to check the simple things are all checked first.
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Could be heat, but I doubt it.
Oh, my setup is: AMD XP 1700+, 640DDR, Asus Geforce 2 Ti Ultra, Windows XP Pro, and an Abit KR7A-r...
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1) Any other game
2) In Half-Life single/multiplayer
3) Any other HL mod, including CS which I have been playing constantly for 2+ years.
System:
AMD 1333 mhz, 256 ram, SBLive, GF4 Ti 4200, and other good stuff.
Shortcut:
D:\Half-Life\hl.exe -game ns -noipx -32bpp -nointro -console -numericping
Description:
Totally random, though almost always occurs after a few hours of playing. When it happens I can still hear the sound in real time. For example: I could be commander and I'll hear my guys asking for medpacks and wtf I'm doing in the comfy CC, but I can't help them for beans since I'm staring at a Blue Screen of Death. Oddly, the Blue Screen of Death has no info on it. It's just blue....
Hitting Cntrl-Alt-Del seems to just enrage my computer, and I soon get rewarded with:
1) A monitor light blinking on and off (the screen being totally black at this point)
2) A sustained beep sound.
The reset switch does the trick though.
Attempted Solutions:
Changed resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x960 (no effect)
Scan disked the entire drive (no effect)
Defragmented the entire drive (no effect)
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It isn't the video card that makes it hang. I even went to the point of running it in software mode, and it still hung. In the first few weeks, NS ran fine. It would freeze up every now and then (the whole pc freezes and the only thing to do is hit reset button on box), but it would usually be during a lot of happenings.
Now, NS can freeze in the first 2 minutes, and it has come to the point where I won't play anymore on my computer.
The thing is, the same problem happens to me when I play CS with vsync off. When vsync is On, cs runs perfectly fine.
What I've found also.. the longer that I have played cs before ns (and a restart), the longer it takes for NS to hang.
If I've been playing cs for say.. 4 hours.. if I play ns, it wont freeze for an hour or so. When I reboot and try again, it might take 5 minutes.
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.
I think I'm just going to have a dual boot.. when wanting to play ns, run win2k or something.
then, whenever i come back on (After resetting) to gamespy to join another game,
it tells me that it has detected a "proxy server" or "unusual network configurations"which apparently, may cause hangs...
this occurs on almost every online game i own...and can happen at anytime..
It didn't, so I had to do a "hard" reset (shut it off from the back, my reset button's wire is cut). Then my computer would not start in Normal mode, only in Safe, so I had to use my backup registry (Thankfully I made a backup 2 days before this happened).
This usually only happens to me when I make a LAN game and add the bots. It just randomly freezes for a min or so, then continues playing.
Specs:
400mhz AMD K-6 3D accel.
Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16mb (over clocked to 200mhz instead of 166mhz)
328mb PC1200 (?) RAM
640x480 OpenGL (I have the WhickedGL drivers too)
Sometimes I play in 800x600 OpenGL mode. (Less fps when alone but higher fps when in battle. Compared to 640x480, higher fps alone but 4 fps in battle)
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Tracked this down as to something to do with OpenGL. Nothing HL related though, which makes me think it's NS specific. Not to mention I played CS and DOD for years and never had a problem.
If I run in Direct3D I don't have a problem, but the fps I receive in combat then is bad (sub 30).
I am not going to guarantee anything, this is sort of a hack fix, no official word on this, do it <b>at your own risk</b>.
Go to your motherboard bios setting and change your APG speed to 1x. ( You might need to change your AGP aparture size as well. Yes, trail and error.)
This is a problem specifically related to the AMD processor (if you haven't noticed yet, those people having the problem are AMD users) and certain motherboard combinations like ECS motherboard + AMD 1Ghz and above.
I have zero hangs now when playing 3D games or NS.