Well, after the last reinstall I tried setting the entire natural selection 2 folder to 'NOT read only' in the properties, since that fixed an error problem I had with another game (red alert 2) once.
^THANK YOU!!!
I just deleted it from the folder and ran ns2.exe and it opened! No idea why that happened, but it's solved now. I thanketh thee, GhoulofGSG9, good sir.
Yeah, that's the way it runs with administrator rights on. When it's off it just goes straight to "ns2.exe has stopped working" with no bad image error.
Starting up ns2.exe from the directory gives the same result. I made a crash dump, but didn't post it (almost no difference in file size from the last one, and it's a big file)
Thanks, I updated razer and also tried disabling it and made sure it had no processes running. Unfortunately, it didn't have an effect.
Here's the crash dump as well.