Game shuts down when I try to connect to a server

[Molecular]

The game just shuts itself down when I try connecting to a server, it's rather weird. Although I can remember something similar happening in earlier versions, anyone know what's causing this?

 

[Tradion]

same on this compy.. not on mine at home though o.0

 

[Too Short]

I have the same problem.. cant make a lan game either. i have win 2000, mybe its the os?

 

[JubeiSaotome]

I'm getting this problem too

 

[simillion]

Same here. Very frustrating because I really want to try out the new version.

 

[Crow]

are any of you banned? if so, you wouldnt be able to create a game because the new VAC update made it so when you create a game, it automatically activates vac protection. thus when you create, you instantly get kicked out of your own server. my brothers account is banned, and i havent been able to find a way to turn off the auto-vac thing.

other than that... try reinstalling? i had a weird issue were it locked up in the middle of creating, and i reinstalled and it worked fine.

also, i think, not too sure, but i think if you try to create a game if you arnt connected to the internet, it wont let you, but your all probably connected, so i guess that probably isnt your problem

and your probably not banned

so i dunno

EDIT: and i just relized the problem was connecting to a server, not creating. i've had no problems connecting yet so... sry

 

[simillion]

Edit: Deleted the post, as my ideas were all nonsense anyway. I have no clue what the problem is.

 

[Crow]

i say check out the wiki and see if you can find anything useful there.

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[Dudeman418]

I cant seem to host a listen server or join other servers...both make the game crash...i couldnt find out what was the reason and no one seems to be having this problem so if there is a way to fix this please tell me how....i really wanna play msc.....

 

[Gurluas]

is your video mode opengl?

 

[simillion]

Yup, OpenGL is on. To test if video settings were the problem, I had already tried D3D, Software, and OpenGL in windows, fullscreen, and at various color depths and resolutions.

 

[Belmont]

Happens to me too, No idea why, I tried putting MS:C in all video modes but no luck.




EDIT: Weird shit, I can join, but I can't create .

 

[Molecular]

Well belmont, at least you can join ;P.

The strange thing about this problem is I used to have it before aswell, on ms 1.35. Although back then I figured some way to fix it, I have absolutely no idea how. As far as my memory reaches it was the steam compatability patch.

In any case, can anyone with some good knowledge tell me what the "parsing game info" step is all about? Perhaps it may be of use to find out what exactly the game can't handle.

 

[Too Short]

well i was banned from hells server somehow in ms but thats all and i tried reinstallin it plent of times and redownloading it. still wont work tho

 

[Tradion]

o.0. No i'm not banned.. jeeze.. I thought of video modes while i was at work too.. didn't work from your guy's point of view.. lets see if my compy works (i was on a friends last night_)

 

[FuzzyFish]

Some of this might be a bit repeative but for those that didn't see/do it yet

1. Make sure it is in openGL mode (MS will only work in this mode
2. Try setting ms_reflect to 0
3. Set ms_music to 0
4. Try setting ms_serverchar to 0 in yourt listenserver.cfg

 

[Too Short]

Ok i did all of that and it still dosnt work....

 

[FoX]

I know everyone's problem, I had it too but I guess I was smart enough to figure it out .

Upon extracting I seemed to be getting extracting errors just about everytime, so delete your install program and re-download it, and re-install it from there, it seemed as though human1.mdl and blacksmith.mdl kept crashing on me, it was always a different combination of errors everytime I did it too.

So in conclusion, the installer is buggy.

 

[Too Short]

i already redownladed the install like 3 times and i never got a error during it.

 

[therurouni]

I redownloaded it many times too from all three mirrors and it still doesn't work.

Is there a way to logs when connecting to servers? When ever i create a server it all ways seems to crash between when i'm "connected" and when i "join" the server. I wonder if the same thing happens.

I wonder if it has to do with any programs that are run during/before master sword. I say this because when i tried to join a server after a fresh boot (only other non essential programs i ran where hixirc, msn, IE, and xfire) it only loaded to about 5 bars, but when i loaded CS then MSC it got further in the loading process.

This is strange because I ran a servre just this morning around 1:55 and it worked, but 10 hours later it doesn't work. :?

 

[FuzzyFish]

Yeah got a friend with the same issue, they could play before and now they can't. No luck with re-installing

 

[Molecular]

Hmm, I for one have still not got it working, but then, just out of curiosity, to anyone who reads this, can you answer me;

Does it work for you? (no or yes)
and;
Where do you have your steam client installed? (in the same directory as windows or in a different, alternate directory)

I remember having problems with a steam related mod some time back becuase steam was on D:\ instead of C:\, it might have been MS.

 

[Kuroneko]

I have always run Steam from D:\ whereas windows is on C:\ and it's never had any problems with that

 

[ceriux]

iv got the same problem... im going to try and re-installing it... iv been waiting so long for this -.- and i cant even play it lol.... :roll:

 

[simillion]

I got it to work!

Apparently, updating my video drivers did the trick. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 series, and I downloaded the new drivers and installed em. It works now. I hope you guys can get yours to work too.