Ns Freeze On Quit Or Disconnect

Zapho25 · March 2004

Since the latest steam update my ns freeze after i hit the disconnect button or i quit the game while connected to a server .
CD is not running at the monment cause due it dont work with latest steam .

I got an athlon xp+ with a nvidia geforce 4 running on windows xp

plz help

thx for answer

UnderDOG · March 2004

I have the same problem with almost exactly the same hardware

Renegade. · March 2004

Same thing with me bud, can't understand why it happens for the life of me! And it seems to be totally random too!
I have:
p4 3.0 ghz
1 GB ram
256 Radeon 9800 XT Pro
so its definately not the hardware <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
Never fear though, I posted this in the bug section about a month ago... still waiting for an admin to respond :S

NeonSpyder · March 2004

ive got the same problem, but it doesnt happen everytime... and it just started too., a couple days ago. proboboly a steam update issue...

nvidia geforce4
p4 2.4mz
512 ram

yadda yadda. all new drivers etc... probobly just steam bug

TheChuckster · March 2004

Same problem.

NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4600
Pentium 4 2.2 GhZ
256 MB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive

Windows XP.

Crono5 · March 2004

Same problem.

ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9200
Pentium 2.8 Ghz H.T.
512 MB DDR
160 GB HDD

Windows XP Media Center/Professional

ShadowSlay · March 2004

same thing...really starting to get annoying. i hate having to ctrl+alt+del out of the game.

Drummer · March 2004

hmm, me too.......

geforce 4 ti 4200
athlon xp 1600
256mb ram
70 gb hd

this is definatly a steam issue, this never happened before that big steam update......

grrrr, i want full ns integration into steam so this doesnt happen

MrGunner · March 2004

I don't suppose you guys would happen to be using a key bound to "quit" would you? Mine usually freezes when I hit mine, although it seems to also like freezing up randomly on map ends just to screw with me.

Drummer · March 2004

no, it always freezes for me when i hit escape and click disconnect

Cookeh · March 2004

i'm having the very same problem.

BizZy_9mm_Messiah · March 2004

Same problem here, whether my key bound to exit or doing it manually in console or command list.

512 Mb Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 128mb
P 4 2.56 GHZ
78 GB HD

owdawg · March 2004

I have the same problem too, only recently is it happening to me now.
To clarify the problem it always occurs to me whenever i use "Quit" or "Disconnect" from the in game menu. Though whenever i use "quit" or "disconnect" in the console it only crashes sometimes but other times it works as it should.

My system specs are as follows....

Windows XP Prof. (fully updated)
Pentium 4 2 Ghz.
512 mb. DDR RAM
Gigabyte GA-81G motherboard (using onboard sound adapter Realtek AC'97)
Adaptec 29160N SCSI adapter with Seagate X15 18 gb main hard drive
1 more SCSI drive and 2 IDE drives
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (using manufacturers AOpen 52.16 drivers)
Road Runner cable modem connection through a 100mbit connection to a Linksys Gateway Router
Natural Selection Network update rate set at 7000
Natural Selection 3.0 beta 3

Common Applications running in background......

mIRC
AOL Instant Messenger
Sophos Antivirus

Cpt_Krunch · March 2004

they're is a thread in the steam support forum.

Valve again screwed something because steam or my comp NEVER crashed before the super huge update.

Now it happens to me each time since then.

LOTS of ppl are affected by the incompetence at valve.

ooo1 · March 2004

Chalk another one up to this game problem.

Forcing an update by deleting "platform.gcf" or "ClientRegistry.blob" does not work as some people have suggested. I hope this is fixed soon, I can't ALT+TAB or CTRL+ALT+DEL out of the frozen game either, I have to do a hard reset.

Cpt_Krunch · March 2004

I tried running the game in D3D and the crashing stopped.

I never use D3D in HL because it runs slow and looks ugly, but at least it doesns't crash

zerwalter · March 2004

me2

p4 3.06 ht
512 ram
nvidia geforce4 mx 420
xp sp1

enforcer0007 · March 2004

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> same problem...(SOB!)

Is this happening with any other games?

LockNLoaded · March 2004

Some info <a href='http://forums.pacific.net.sg/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53844' target='_blank'>here</a>

Mazkaline · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>It looks like this came back. Right now, the fix is to delete the file SteamUI.dll and launch Steam.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
All I found under that link relating to fix the issue. I have to try it when back home but can someone confirm this works?

Grandma_Death · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mazkaline @ Mar 15 2004, 10:40 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>All I found under that link relating to fix the issue. I have to try it when back home but can someone confirm this works?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
It seems to work for me.

Daxx · March 2004

The fix:

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>It looks like this came back. Right now, the fix is to delete the file SteamUI.dll and launch Steam.

Taylor Sherman
</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Fierce · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>It looks like this came back. Right now, the fix is to delete the file SteamUI.dll and launch Steam.

Taylor Sherman</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Some people have said that still didn't work it didn't for me so really all you have to do is delete half-life engine.gcf and platform.gcf out of C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps.. and restart steam and wait for it to reupdate the files.

Clashen · March 2004

I got almost the same problem, Steam freezes everytime i connect too a server.
I can be in the RR for like 5sec and then it freezes and i got too alt+tab, ctrl+alt+delete and quit NS from there :/

Aesyrqwe · March 2004

I got the same problem..
Good to see that its not my computers fault this time..

-Aes-

Jodo_Kast · March 2004

Can we get this topic webbed or something? It seems pretty major- my whole household (5 people/computers) are all experiencing random crashes when servers change maps, or when trying to leave a server or quit NS. I've tried deleting SteamUI.dll, but I was crashing again within a few hours. I havn't tried deleting the other files, I might try that but from the sound of it that won't work either. Just how big a problem is this? Is my whole lan just an oddity, or is this pretty universal?
Also, sometimes when NS crashes I can ctrl-alt-del and shut down halflife, but sometimes it won't even bring up the task manager and I have to manually reboot.

Jodo_Kast
Win2k Pro
P4 2.6ghz
512 ddr 400
ati 9600xt
SB audigy 2

XShrike · March 2004

Same problem

TheMunch8 · March 2004

yea, same problem. I have to do a hard boot, which pisses me off, as i usually like to see how long I can keep my computer running well <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
It seems to happen to other people also who are playing CS. SO hopefully it is just steam's problem and it will be fixed in the next update <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Jodo_Kast · March 2004

And I can confirm, at least for me, that deleting half-life engine.gcf and platform.gcf, along with steamUI.dll, does not work. It just crashed again <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Jodo_Kast

rknZ · March 2004

going to console and typing exit seemed to fix my problems...

It only freezes up if I use my F12 key which is bound to quit (havent tried typing quit in console)

Xylo · March 2004

This happens to me a TON too...I'd say 50% of the time, at least.

Windows 2000 pro
Pentium 3 - 550
using Steam
256MB RAM
Sound Blaster Live!
nVidia GeForce Ti4600
cable modem

And it ONLY happens with NS....not DoD, CS, or any other HL mod.

Ns Freeze On Quit Or Disconnect

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