Game crashes when joining gather servers

Fule · April 2013

So I tried to join the Frankfurt ENSL server but the game keeps crashing. I tried restarting steam and verifying files, but it did not help. I haven't tried other gather servers, but it doesn't crash when I play pub games.

GrayW · April 2013

Can you open the console when joining so when it crashes you can see where it's happening?

Fule · April 2013

Error: Animation graph is in an invalid state for 'models/marine/male/male.animation_graph', no node found for 8 in layer 1

It crashes on this one. Also the camera is kind of silly - it is zoomed in.
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ScardyBob · April 2013

1. Try joining other ENSL servers to see if its a problem with that specific server (which is my guess)

2. Are other people able to join the server?

Fule · April 2013

I just tried joining Frankfurt and Chicago servers - same thing, so I guess it will be the same for all others. Yes, other people are playing on them.

GrayW · April 2013

lamb wrote: »

Ghosthree3 wrote: »

Pretty sure this is an issue with servers having outdated files to check against.

I actually tried deleting the corrupted file and other files in the same folder, and several other files in different locations in the NS2 folder, THEN verified files on steam and it worked.
It's like it didn't scan for missing files in that folder at one point, I got no clue.

Other than that, thank you for the help, both of you

From - http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/129805

Try that.

Fule · April 2013

Tried deleting that file and verifying - didn't work. Not sure what other files did he delete as he didn't mention them.

GrayW · April 2013

Hmmm.
Turned off all of your Mods and enabled them 1 by 1 to see if it's one of those?

Fule · April 2013

GrayW wrote: »

Hmmm.
Turned off all of your Mods and enabled them 1 by 1 to see if it's one of those?

Yep, tried that also. Still, it happens only in gather servers, never in pubs.

Fule · April 2013

bump, still not fixed, still annoying.

DC_Darkling · April 2013

check steam cache and reinstall ns2?

casan0vax · April 2013

I get the same thing. I tried what lamb did and it fixed it, but it's come back again. It seems that this only happens on ENSL servers, or servers that are running ENSL configs, so I'm going to guess that it has to do with either the consistency check or the NSL version of maps.

EDIT:

Okay, so I believe that I've found a semi-working fix for this. I've been experiencing two different errors.

The first:

NS2 Error wrote:

Animation graph is in an invalid state for 'models/marine/male/male.animation_graph', no node found for 8 in layer 1

The fix:
Like lamb suggested in the post GrayW linked (http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/129805), it appears that deleting the entire "marine" folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2\models), along with a few other random ones (of your choice) within the root NS2 folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2), and then verifying the integrity of the game cache (Steam Library > Right Click Natural Selection 2 > Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache) fixes this. I've encountered this error twice, both times having been fixed through this method.

Keep in mind, when you're verifying the game cache, you cannot do anything else on Steam, so if you're having a conversation with someone, you won't be able to respond until it's done verifying (which can take upwards of 7-8 minutes).

The second:

NS2 Error wrote:

[Client] Script Error #1: lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Call stack:
#1: GetBadgeIcon lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174
self = {GetBadgeIcon=function, SetBadge=function, __initmixin=function, currentBadge=32, networkVars= {currentBadge="enum kBadges" }, type="Badge" }
#2: lua/NetworkMessages_Client.lua:89
scoreTable = {assists=3, badge=32, clientId=-939524096, deaths=48, entityId=98, isCommander=true, isRookie=false, isSpectator=false, kills=224, playerName="†§Çæ"Ç–æV", resources=66, score=7175, status=5, teamNumber=-1 }
status = "Commander"
[Client] Script Error #2: lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Call stack:
#1: GetBadgeIcon lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174
self = {GetBadgeIcon=function, SetBadge=function, __initmixin=function, currentBadge=29, networkVars= {currentBadge="enum kBadges" }, type="Badge" }
#2: lua/NetworkMessages_Client.lua:89
scoreTable = {assists=4, badge=29, clientId=-939524096, deaths=160, entityId=52, isCommander=false, isRookie=true, isSpectator=false, kills=224, playerName="†§Çærô$uTôV7", resources=961, score=1027, status=5, teamNumber=-1 }
status = "Commander"
[Client] Script Error #3: lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Call stack:
#1: GetBadgeIcon lua/BadgeMixin.lua:174
self = {GetBadgeIcon=function, SetBadge=function, __initmixin=function, currentBadge=27, networkVars= {currentBadge="enum kBadges" }, type="Badge" }
#2: lua/NetworkMessages_Client.lua:89
scoreTable = {assists=0, badge=27, clientId=-2013265920, deaths=16, entityId=542, isCommander=true, isRookie=false, isSpectator=false, kills=224, playerName="†§ÇæÂô6¶ÆV&", resources=576, score=4097, status=5, teamNumber=-1 }
status = "Commander"

The fix:
I saw "Badge" in the error, so I ended up going into my Mods and apparently I had some badge mod active. I disabled it and it seems to have fixed it.

I can't guarantee that this will fix the problems for anyone else, but these have both worked for me personally. Hopefully the problem will be identified and solved soon because it's rather annoying, and constantly deleting files manually and re-downloading them is hardly an efficient fix for anything. Like I said before, I'm conjecturing that it has to do with ENSL configs/consistency checks.

Fule · April 2013

^^I tried your fix and it did not fix it at all. I deleted all kinds(TM) of folders. Come on guys, I wanna play some gathers

Fule · April 2013

New problem - now I can't even join, it shows a message "Invalid data". Nothing shows up in console.

Tharos · April 2013

I guess you'll have to reinstall ns2

Fule · April 2013

Tharos wrote: »

I guess you'll have to reinstall ns2

That's what IronHorse told me to do and I'm doing it atm.
edit: reinstalling did not fix the "Invalid data" issue which prevents me from joining the servers.

Gamerkatze · April 2013

when did you join the server ? we had a gather running earlier on the new version. but that was after i disabled 1/2 of the mods ^^

we also have a forum topic called "help desk" on ensl.org . if you post there i can respond to problems with our server much faster

Game crashes when joining gather servers

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