Palos 0 Posted January 24, 2001 Hi peoples, Lets put it the short way: IT CRASHES! Regardless of the renderer type, screen resolution, bitdepth, FSAA, Creative EAX on/off, DirectSound on/off, etc...I have all the patches available: the viaagp1.sys from AMD, SP1 for W2K, the memory registry hacks from geforce faq and AMD, the application update from M$.....u name it. My system: A7V w/Promise ATA100 onboard, Thunderbird 700 (no o/c), 192 MB SDRAM PC133 (set to CAS3 in BIOS), ASUS V6600 Deluxe (GeForce 256 w/64 Mb SDR), SB Live! X-Gamer w/Liveware 3 for W2K, 20 GB Maxtor UDMA5 HDD, Elsa Microlink 56k USB, Realtek 8139 FastEthernet, Epson Stylus Color 580 USB, the usual mouse and monitor... I have the 1004D BIOS on my A7V, with Normal settings (AGP 2x by default, and CAS3 RAM), 128 MB AGP Aperture, NVidia official 6.31 drivers. Counterstrike seems to lock up at random times during the game, system does not respond, the screen becomes a screenshot, the footstep sound loops over and over and the only way out is a cold reset. What could it be??? Share this post Link to post
Palos 0 Posted January 24, 2001 Damn, I just noticed I posted in the wrong forum....doesn't matter tho, the situation wouldn't change Share this post Link to post
LoW_beta 0 Posted January 24, 2001 I had some lockups in CS but tweaked a bunch of stuff in the config.cfg file and it stopped. Check out a place like http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/half-life/index.shtml for tweaking information on that .cfg file in the CS directory. Also have you experimented with newer leaked Detonator drivers?? Share this post Link to post
Bursar 0 Posted January 24, 2001 It's unlikely to be a CS problem. Although I don't like the mod much, the underlying HalfLife engine is fairly stable now. I would really suggest that you go through the hardware drivers again. My GF2 Ultra runs HL and other mods (TFC, FA, FLF) without problem using the 6.31 drivers. I've just upped to the 6.50 drives for Win2k and that too runs fine. Maybe you should undo some of the registry hacks and tweaks that you've made to see if that helps the situation. Also, does it make any difference if you use OpenGL or D3D? Share this post Link to post
Palos 0 Posted January 24, 2001 No I havent experimented with different driver builds, leaked or genuine. Guys, what the hell, the original released Detonator 3 drivers (6.31) should work, shouldn't they?? That's why they release them, right? Anyways, the freezing happens both in OpenGL and DirectX, and I might add that it seems to me that it dies more quickly in OpenGL than DirectX. Also, did any of you had the problem with the menu screen still being shown in the top left corner after a map was loaded and it shows the map info and terrorist/counter team menus. If you "escape" and "resume" it goes away! Happens in OpenGL only though.... BTW, it just hit me...what version of DirectX is included by default in W2K? Cos I didn't update it yet! Share this post Link to post
Fozz 0 Posted January 29, 2001 Palos, yea, I had that issue with the Menu screen staying in the top left corner of the screen. I had this with the 6.31 drivers and since I have a TNT2U card I just reverted to the 5.32 drivers and it all works fine now. I apreciate that the official drivers from NVidia should work fine but that is not always the case...I mean, dya not wonder why there are SO MANY NVidia drivers versions out there?!? I would suggest you experiment with some different NVidai drivers and see what the results are. Finally, Win2k comes with DX7 as default. I have installed the DX8 for Win2k and it works fine, altho there is a version 8a out now, so you may as well get that. Good luck! ------------------ Asus K7V - Athlon 750 (not o/c'd), 256Mb PC100, CL TNT2U, SBLive. Share this post Link to post
Bursar 0 Posted January 29, 2001 At last! Someone else has the same screen related problem as me! I had it with my G400MAX and now my GF2 Ultra. It only ever happens if I start a LAN game. Joining an Internet game (either using the built in server-finder or a 3rd party one like GameSpy) gives no problems. The Win2k DX7 worked fine for me in HL, as did DX8 and now DX8a. I will tell you one problem that I've had over the past few days though... Every now and then I get an error along the lines of Application popup: iexplore.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x013f5102" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". I've had this once or twice on my work machine as well (which I don't use for playing games and has a different video card). I'm going to be swapping my RAM soon to see if that helps. However, when this error appears, mostly the machine drops back to Windows and displays the error dialog. On occaision though, it stays in HL, I get the mouse pointer, and have to guess where the dialog boxes are or just bash away on the keyboard using Enter, Esc, Alt-F4 in order to eventually get back to the desktop. Maybe you have some underlying problem that is causing CS to crash. Have you checked your Event Log to see if anything odd is going on at the time of the crash? [Edit - On my home machine, iexplore.exe is replaced with HL.exe when this type of crash occurs] [This message has been edited by Bursar (edited 29 January 2001).] Share this post Link to post
GHackmann 0 Posted January 30, 2001 There's three things you should try to fix the crashes, but you're not going to like the third one. The first one is to download the DirectX 8/8a update, and then download Detonator 6.47 from Reactor Critical. (Detonators before 6.47 have crashing problems with DirectX 8 under Windows 2000.) This probably won't help much, but it can't hurt. The second one's easy. Pop up OpenGL Settings tab under the GeForce Properties and change "Buffer flipping mode" to "Use block transfer". This made most of my crashing go away, but not all of it. The third one is the one you're not going to like, so use it only as a last resort. Try yanking your sound card or disabling it in Device Manager. If that fixes your problems, replace the sound card with one from a different manufacturer. SB Live!s give a lot of Windows 2000 users grief, since their drivers have a lot of, umm, issues with ACPI on many systems. I eventually had to pull my SB Live! and replace it with a Santa Cruz to make my crashing stop. Hope this helps. Share this post Link to post
Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted January 31, 2001 not a solution, but cs 1.0 and the new beta works fine on my computa..no probs at all with all the latest HL drivers/updates, hardware updates etc etc. hope u get it to all work and i am currenlty runn'n win 2k adv sererv, also ran fine on win 2k pro andserver. ------------------ ========================= ICQ me!!! ========Specs======== ASUS P3V4X VARIOUS O/C SETTINGS PIII 533 @ 640 133fsb PIII 533 @ 584 150fsb 384mb PC133 20gIBM 7200 rpm 40g MAxtor 7200rpm Sound Blaster LIVE!!! Platinum ATI All-In-Wonder 128 32mb 2x Agp 19'Samsung SyncMaster 950p Logitech Wireless keyboard/Mouse Creative 52x cdrom Richo CD-R/RW MP7040a 4/4/32 Epson Stylus colour 760 Cable modem and i networked with a MAC G3, now sharing printer/hardrives and internet. WOW, aren't i special now AND iT ALL WORKS GRRRREAT!!!' Share this post Link to post
