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Cs Source Freezing =) Update

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Spike23

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Hey guys just want to let u all now, I am pretty sure some of you may notice yourself when your playing CS source its been crashing for no reason. Sometimes the game might just freeze and you can safely get out without a reboot. I've done my research and looks like i am not the only one having this issue its alost posted on the offical Steam forums.
So for starters i wanted to start this thread so that people who are expericiing this won't have to go through all the trouble and tinkering with their cards or what not to find the reason behind it. The problems seems to be the game itself with the more recent updates. Its annoying yes and seriousely pretty annoying. There is currently no real fix to this problem but a suggestion someone posted on the offical Steam forum is lower your graphics to medium. This may or may not help you, sadly i haven;t tested this yet but will soon =). Anyhoo hope you all have fun with Cs source until there is a fix or some type of patch to fix all this up cuz its pissing me off seriousely. I can't even play for a few hours without it freezing on me.
 
Ok, this happened to me many times and after hours I found the answer:

If you have a 6800 Series GPU and are getting lockups im 99% sure its the BIOS. A lot of these cards had bugged BIOSes when they left the factory. I had to flash my card with a newer BFG BIOS 3 times before the lockups stopped. Also remember to NOT USE 66.93 drivers since they are bugged with CSS. Disable fastwrites and RAM shadowing

If you dont have a 6800, I'm sorry I cant help ya.

Hope that helped
 
Yes it does not help at all if you dont even tell us what hardware / software config you are using...there is like a million differend reason why your computer crashes.

Ah, i saw your profile

Intel P4 3.0E Oc> 3.3
1 GB Apacer DDR3200 > 215 mhz FSB:RAM 1:1
Aopen AX4SPE-UN
ATI Sapphire 9600 > Core 419 > MEM 209
Seagate 120 GB 8 cache

Dont know much about radeons, but i would check the bios, and overclock stuff(voltages, timings) and do some general torture tests for example,with prime95 (see overclocking section) and so on...if you find your hardware is not for blame, continue thinkering with the software. Maybe it crashes just because you are overclocking and its not stable ?
 
I started having lock ups and a blue screen sometimes but rarely in the game.. it all started after I went from 67.02 to the 71.22 driver.. I did pick up some good #s on the benchmarks for the 71.22 driver but I also picked up weird artifacts in half life 2 and of course these strange lockups in CS:S. Removed the driver and tried to use a driver cleaner that just gave me an error.. then reinstalled the 67.02... been fine ever since. Played HL2 with no glitches and CS:S for 2 hours no problems. I have a 6800 also. System specs in sig.. good luck getting this figured out on your end.
 
Yea thanks for the input guys.
I hope some Radeon users can shed some light on this issue.
 
I haven't had any probs with CS after the last update, I've been trying the bots and there hasen't been any probs. What's your driver ver.? I use 4.12
 
Yea 4.12
and its still happening its pissing me the heck off..
i think i am gonna die this problem is pushing my patience.
 
Have you tried it with everything running stock? Source engine is a picky one for telling you your system isn't stable..
 
Faulty ram or OVERCLOCKED ram can cause problems (with anything) (or overclocked anything including CPU) Make sure fast writes are disabled in the bios.

Describe your lockups, do you ever crash to desktop with a Memory error? have you tried running the steam utility that goes through your files and verifies them? (I can't remember the command - you will have to google it)
 
seanmcd said:
Faulty ram or OVERCLOCKED ram can cause problems (with anything) (or overclocked anything including CPU) Make sure fast writes are disabled in the bios.

Describe your lockups, do you ever crash to desktop with a Memory error? have you tried running the steam utility that goes through your files and verifies them? (I can't remember the command - you will have to google it)
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Yea it was a memory moduel error
U know anything to fix that?
 
 
Thanks man =)
i think i have solved my problem.
It could be that i put too much AS5 on my GPU.
Cuz yesterday i reinstalled it and i think its fine so far 1 hour of CS s and no problems as of yet
I also Declocked a lil to 428 core 244 mem =)
Seems fine so far ^___^ really happy
 
Spike23 said:
Thanks man =)
i think i have solved my problem.
It could be that i put too much AS5 on my GPU.
Cuz yesterday i reinstalled it and i think its fine so far 1 hour of CS s and no problems as of yet
I also Declocked a lil to 428 core 244 mem =)
Seems fine so far ^___^ really happy
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Sounds like the pausing/crashing issue was most likely due to the GPU recovery mode. When I was running my 9600pro with CS:S it would pause/crash until I clocked down the card as you did.

Back in the old days, it would just crash to desktop.

Live and learn...

-Skystalker
 
I am not saying that the GPU recovery does NOT work. I am saying that if you overclock your card, it MAY have issues with some games, and the symtoms are as he indicated.

CS:S is an excellent "acid test" for any video card (and system) overclock. Your card (and system) may run fine in some other games, but this is the shit. If your system runs good playing this game for five hours straight with this game, it tells me more than all the 200x benchmarks/memtest shit. This will kill an unstable system. No question.

Anyone wanna disagree? LOL. Thot not.

-Skystalker
 
Zxcs said:
Ok, this happened to me many times and after hours I found the answer:

If you have a 6800 Series GPU and are getting lockups im 99% sure its the BIOS. A lot of these cards had bugged BIOSes when they left the factory. I had to flash my card with a newer BFG BIOS 3 times before the lockups stopped. Also remember to NOT USE 66.93 drivers since they are bugged with CSS. Disable fastwrites and RAM shadowing

If you dont have a 6800, I'm sorry I cant help ya.

Hope that helped
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where did you get the new bfg bioses?
 
oh sorry, looked at this thread a few times, didn't realise you wanted to know where I got MY bios from, will post back in a couple of minutes when I find the link.
 
Zxcs said:
I had to flash my card with a newer BFG BIOS 3 times before the lockups stopped.
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you had to try three different BIOS's? Because if you had to flash three times with the same bios, that makes no sense
 
seanmcd said:
you had to try three different BIOS's? Because if you had to flash three times with the same bios, that makes no sense
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I used the same BIOS, it puzzled me too, I have no idea why it worked though, I did nothing in-between, so I know it was the BIOS
 
seanmcd said:
Faulty ram or OVERCLOCKED ram can cause problems (with anything) (or overclocked anything including CPU) Make sure fast writes are disabled in the bios.

Describe your lockups, do you ever crash to desktop with a Memory error? have you tried running the steam utility that goes through your files and verifies them? (I can't remember the command - you will have to google it)
Click to expand...


Yes this is true. I had the same problem and I removed a stick of RAM and my problem was resolved. I learned the ahrd way to make sure your RAM is compatable. I had Samsung PC3200 and Elixir (Kbyte memory) PC3200 both 512mb sticks
 
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