Strange Crash Problem

Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:43 am

I've run this game for a very long time and have not had any problems. Today, out of the blue, my comp seems to freeze into a hard lock within a minute of connecting to a server and joining a team. Once it freezes, I can't alt-tab, hit the windows key, or anything. I haven't changed anything in my comp and other games run fine. Anyone else ever experience an issue such as this?

-BT

Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:09 am

What graphics card/driver version are you running?

Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:19 am

Geforce 3 using nvidia drivers 52.16 for WinXP. I've been running this way for awhile, today was the first day I encountered a problem.

-BT

Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:42 am

are you sure it was a crash and not a problem with punkbuster? PB was turned on today. i had trouble for several hours before i could connect to the server for more then a minute. i was getting "pb client in distress" errors.. which means pb can't run its auto update... the pb website has instructions on how to fix it. pb site

Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:05 pm

I had the same problems and its your video drivers.
Down grade your drivers and it should work.

Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:11 pm

Thanks for the tip guys. I will try the punkbuster fix and rollback my drivers.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and used the latest patch last night and that still hand't worked. Now I'm mad at myself because I've overwritten some of my keybindings and I forget how I made them... only one I really used was to hit the z key to do /s_stop.

-BT

Tue Dec 09, 2003 11:29 pm

Rolling backs the nvidia driver worked. I don't understand why 52.16 worked for several weeks and then became the problem.

-BT

Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:09 am

Its a problem with PB. I turned PB on recently. Overall the 5* series drivers from Nvidia are unstable and I would stay away from them.