Does your CS Source crash ?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:07 pm

I just wondered how much other peps CS Source crashes?
Mine sometimes lasts an hour or longer but always seems to crash at some point. It just frezzes with a sound playing over and over. Sometimes I have to reboot, If I am lucky I can get back to desktop with loads of alt tabs and ctrl Alt Del.
How about you?.

Post by **DE-G@vnor** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:49 pm

I used to have the sound looping, but I tried that ambient cl command and that sorted it.

Now it crashes with loads of jumbled tiny squares all over the screen all different colours.

Scared me because I thought my video card had broken.

masseymo · Post by **masseymo** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:49 pm

dose this just happen at any time when your walking about or dose it happen when you go onto the buy menu (like it did with me) ?

out4zero · Post by **out4zero** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:50 pm

Would this be with a Soundblaster/Creative card by any chance?

It's never crashed on me yet I must admit but then I don't use a Creative sound card.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:20 pm

It happens just running arround not sure what sound card I have I will check when I get home, comp is newish.
Bosscat.

Post by **MrsWintermute** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:35 pm

This used to happen to me quite often (usually on Aztec), with exactly the same symptoms as Bosscat, freezing with a sound loop. In fact on rejoining I've often had to kick myself of the server to get back on.

Seems to have stopped recently, sorry I can't be of more help. Obviously, if anyone has a solution I also would be very interested as I'm sure it's going to rear its ugly head again soon!

stigdu · Post by **stigdu** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:05 pm

Yep this happens to me a lot, the screen just freezes and I get a sound looping. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and end task, as it comes up as 'not responding.'

I have a Creative Audigy 2 soundcard.

Any solution would be great as its really annoying!

Rawk · Post by **Rawk** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:18 am

I used to have this frequently on CS 1.6 with Windows 2000, with a Soundblaster live 5.1

I eventually tracked it down to a problem between the soundblaster and the via chipset on my old motherboard, but with both via and creative labs blaming each other.

Since I have had winXP/changed motherboard, it hasn't happened again.

Post by **KillJoy** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:12 pm

yeah, every now and again i get stuck with the sound looking but it only lasts for about 15-20 secs then i can carry on playing...

I have on Rare occasion had what happened to gav where the graphics screw up - first time it happened it scared me too cos i went to desktop and all that was screwy! - afer a restart tho its ok...

Post by **jamie** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:16 pm

I use a creative soundcard and have had the same issue, I thought it was the gfx overheating, as I have a second fan blowing on it, and when its not running full pelt, it locks up. Turn the fan to full, runs fine. Wonder if its a driver issue with nvidia and creative then.

Post by sm » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:32 pm

jamie wrote:I use a creative soundcard and have had the same issue, I thought it was the gfx overheating, as I have a second fan blowing on it, and when its not running full pelt, it locks up. Turn the fan to full, runs fine. Wonder if its a driver issue with nvidia and creative then.

Or a hardware conflict.

Elexes · Post by **Elexes** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:53 pm

i used to have the same probloms .

was between via and the sb live card i had .

i had no way of fixing the problom unless i switched card .

what hardware do you have ?

stigdu · Post by **stigdu** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:07 pm

I have an ASUS nforce 2 motherboard with a Creative Audigy 2 gamer soundcard, and it just crashed again 2 minutes ago...

Post by sm » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:37 pm

You could try moving your sound card to a different pci slot.

out4zero · Post by **out4zero** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:38 pm

From Steam's help site...

Games freeze or crash with Looping Sounds

Question
My Games Crash with Sounds looping over and over, usually no error message

Answer

SoundBlaster Problems
If you have a soundcard (not a chip on the motherboard) what PCI slot is your soundcard plugged into?

SoundBlaster soundcards are infamous for not performing well on the lower slots (beyond slot 3 on most PCI buses). Other cards may also have problems. Try moving the card closer to the graphics card, or if it's already as close as it can get, then try moving the card down a slot or two.

On-Board Soundchips
If you have an on-board soundchip, there are several web reports seem to indicate there are problems with some on-board sound chip drivers causing this problem, here is one:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/archive/i ... 34588.html

For both onboard and PCI soundcards there are a few things to try and eliminate this problem.

Get the latest drivers for your motherboard and for your sound card
Make sure you have all the latest O/S updates installed from Microsoft (windows update).
Be sure to get the latest DirectX version installed as well.
Don't Run Both
If you have a sound chip on your motherboard and you upgrade to new PCI audio card, you must uninstall the old drivers and then disable the on-board soundchip in your BIOS settings before installing the new card.

Try Turning off the Sound
Try disabling the sound card in the device manager: right-click on the sound card and select "disable", you can re-enable it later once we see if it helps or not. On-board soundchips can usually be disabled in the BIOS.

For both HL1 and HL2 games you can also add:

-nosound

In your game launch properties and see if that prevents the crash.

I know it's no fun to play without sound, but try it for a while just to see if the problem is still there.

If the problem goes away then you know something related to your sound card or sound card drivers is causing the problem.

Phone Home
If after installing all the latest drivers and O/S updates you still have this problem, you might try contacting your motherboard manufacturer and see what their recommendations are, especially for on-board soundchips.

DirectX Acceleration
You can also turning down or disabling the DirectX Sound Acceleration.

You do this by going to your start button:
Start > Run > DXDIAG <enter>

Then go to the Sound Tab and turn off hardware acceleration, then exit and run the game and see if there
is any change. If the problem goes away then you can go back and move the acceleration up a step at a
time until the problem starts happening again .. then reduce the acceleration one step.

Two last things,
1.for HL1 games, in the game sound options, make sure that EAX and A3D options are UNCHECKED.

2. There are reports that some sound codecs can cause this problem, specifically:
k-lite mega codeck pack

I'd try moving it to another pci slot first and I've got a Hercules Digifire 7.1