Hi there.

Some people have problems on a few select maps, with Dod crashing on startup when connecting to a server running certain maps. When the player is connected to the server, and the console is about to pull up, the game freezes and kicks the player to the desktop.

Known maps that cause this is Flash and Anzio, and sadly, my map, railroad2. I'm wondering what exactly cause this?

Skdr thought it had to do with the ambient_generic which plays on startup an ambient sound throughout the map. I removed this, recompiled, and sent the map to some of the people that crashed. For some people, this helped, but not all.

I'm at my wits end here, and I'd really like to know how I can solve this. Any ideas?

-Insta

I've been having problems too but only when:
1) Some pics up an object on map with lots of ambience
2) When over 24 people join a game on LAN with lots of ambience

I don't know what the prob is so I'm reinstalling HL and DoD.

the ambience sound thing was for a while 'the best possible theory' behind the crashing, and i came up with the stopsound as soon as the map loads fix. (cough credit cough) although, no real cause was found, and hence no real solution.

then the problem with people not even getting to that map load stage, and just crashing on connecting to server, and the ambient sound 'theory' was thrown out the window.


i hope the dod team find the cause...it could be how the game interacts with a special part of the map. Its just a bugger to try and find links to narrow down the causes.

good luck with railroad2, because there isnt really a proper exclamation.:(

Its quite weird, since only some people have problems with connecting. Could it possibly be a hardware problem?

I don't really know. I've been having hell with DoD and HL in the last week. First some of my DLL's corrupted and after fixing them I get that wierd ambience/objective problem (especially in custom maps). Maybe there could be a DoD virus going around? (Who knows?)

I had the problem when connecting to maps, just as the console went up, it locked up and crashed.

Reinstall should fix it.

this is way over me, but im betting its something to do with sound and gfx drivers or the cards.

I am quite positive that it's about sounds and sound processing in the game. Could be just one sound or something.

well, ive never had the problem in anzio

ive had the problem in flash many times but only when i choose a team, then ppl said "join allies first and you'll never crash" that worked but i dunno why

it never happened to me on railroad

it happened to me once on connect to rr2_b1 (out of 3 times playing it)

it crashed for me 3 times on connect for rr2_b2 and i only played it that once

also, ive never crashed on flash with retail dod, only dl version, and i cant play my demos from flash with dl version, only retail :/

still no clue why

ditto.

retail works fine. mod...ya that crashes a bit more for me, though not all the time.

I had this problem with all maps for a while. The console would begin to load, and I would hear the beginning of a sound, and then I would be staring at my desktop.

I ended up getting so frustrated that I deleted DoD, then reinstalled HL and DoD. No problems now.

Originally posted by Jello_Biafra
I had this problem with all maps for a while. The console would begin to load, and I would hear the beginning of a sound, and then I would be staring at my desktop.

I ended up getting so frustrated that I deleted DoD, then reinstalled HL and DoD. No problems now.

i had the exact same problem in 3.1, with my old gfx card (voodoo 3) on any server, any map, the console would start to go up, and then dod would crash, but with my other gfx card (TNT2 Pro) its works fine, but low fps :rolleyes:

I play w/ both the d/l version and the retail version and I've never had this happen. I mention this because while I have DSL, I have a fairly old rig (Athalon 500 w00t!), point being, I don't think its that an old box is the problem.

Has anyone taken note of the soundcards of those who have the problem? Assuming its related to the sounds.

Insta, you probably have done this, but if you search the support forum you'll find a lot of threads on this... however I don't think any really have a consistant fix or answer. :(

I have a completly different prob that happens to me on loading a map.

just 1 map gives me the error "bad surface extents 880/0" now the map works for everyone else and the textures are embeded into the map. The models I have ALL work fine.

can aany1 help me with this. re-install didnt fix. nor did updating to Direct X 9.0b

One I do notice though:
- PC's using onboard sound have errors more often
- PC's using onboard Video have more problems

My problem is too much cr** on my PC and I think it needs another defrag