FF keeps crashing when audio starts looping

[Demasu]

Originally Posted by Kapz

I've experienced this on every map i've played so far, usually after 1 to 2 minutes. It just locks up with the sound looping, and the only thing I can do is press the reset button.

I'm doing some more investigating to see if I can track down the issue. Also I can't find any .mdump files in my source SDK base folder.

Do you know if there are any heat problems when playing? Because that could be it.

[Shirley_Crabtree]

Originally Posted by Hellraz0r

Yup I have this problem too, and ESPECIALLY with ff_hunted.

I just can't play that map, my computer won't let me. It just jams ALL THE TIME.

Although I get this problem, mine doesn't goto desktop. My whole computer jams and I have to force restart.

Exactly what mine does.

Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
ATI X600 pro (latest driver)
1 GB DDR ram

I'll try setting sound quality lower and see if it helps,cheers.

(When its running its smooth as shite...Then it just loops and I appear to have lagged out to others)

Same error here

Always the same error
My Windows Vista Protocoll tells:
Erroneous application hl2.exe, Version 0.0.0.0, Timestamp 0x4445c334, erroneous module serverbrowser.dll, Version 0.0.0.0, Timestamp 0x46803761, Exceptioncode 0xc0000005, Erroroffset 0x000210cf, Prozess-ID 0x13e4

Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
Core2Duo E 6400
2 GB Ram
Geforce 7900 GS

I tried setting audio to medium, as well as updating my graphics drivers and sound card drivers, but I'm still having the soundskip crash.

System Specs are:
Windows XP SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz x2
1 Gig of Ram
Nvidia 7600GS Graphics card

MDMP File of one of the crashes

[Shirley_Crabtree]

Ok...I set audio to medium and started a listenserver on hunted.

I played for about 1 minute and my PC restarted itself...No looping...Just restarted :S

BTW Insurgency plays fine

Oh I checked in event viewer straight away when PC had booted up and saw this :-



The time on my clock was 19:52 ... So I guess that error tallies with what time my PC restarted.

But as you can see that error happens a lot yet it doesn't affect the comp/games at all.

Cheers.

[BumGravy]

Originally Posted by RogueA

I tried setting audio to medium, as well as updating my graphics drivers and sound card drivers, but I'm still having the soundskip crash.

^^ same here, different specs

Oh well, so much for the widespread success of that

[BobTheChainsaw]

This is happening to me all the time. I'm pissed off, as soon as I get 5 minutes into the game it always crashes with a sound loop. ARRRGH.

[kevjones]

I had the exact same problem as the OP until I updated my ATI drivers. I read that ATI cards need the newest drivers. it still crashes often but say every 30 minutes now instead of every 4

I am getting the same thing, I started it up the first time and just before the map finished loading I got some directx error, restarted it, I played for about 15 minutes and my game froze with looping sound with the only way out been restarting the computer.

The second time I loaded the map and a few seconds later it froze...

I am running:
X800XT PE 256MB
1.5GB DDR2 400Mhz RAM
Windows XP SP2
AMD64 3200+
SB Audigy ZS 2

I have all the latest drivers which I am 100% sure I do.

Count me in as having this problem too. It's really annoying.

Except sometimes I don't loop and then crash. Sometimes the game slows down to 1fps and then eventually locks up and I have to restart. And a few times I was playing and then randomly got booted to the FF splash screen and got disconnected from the server. Very strange.

And yeah, sometimes I can play for a few hours and sometimes it happens within minutes.

[Skanky Butterpuss]

ok well i used to get this chronically, but after screwing with some settings, i havent crashed like this in about 2 hours (only getting the studiorender.dll crash). heres what i did that seemed to have fixed it:

- uninstalled and reinstalled sound and video card drivers
- run FF windowed, with all the graphics settings on low, 1280x800 resolution
- turned off steam community ingame (go to your steam options, select In Game, and uncheck)
- turn sound quality to medium

with every one of those it got a bit less frequent, and the sound quality one seems to be the nail in the coffin. hopefully this is it for good, and i hope it helps you guys too.

[Foxtrick]

My crashes was largely when playing Soldier on map well(either or both being the cause seemingly 3 or 4 times). Its now resolved by the sound quality turning to medium, instead of its default high.

By the way, I think when FF installs, it should put things on a low graphical setting by default. My pc runs okay in high settings but I played poorly(at what was likely 20-25 fps), now on low settings, at 35+, its really fun...

Im having this very same crashing. I did what Skanky Butterpuss did, but it didn't really help. I hope solution for this problem is found soon.

My game keeps crashing with the audio loop thing... I've done everything!

-Set res to 800x640, in windowed mode
-Updated Drivers
-Reduced sound quality

Nothing seems to work. I always get this when I play:

I really hope they fix this soon. It's pretty much making the game unplayable for me. It's not worth restarting my computer every 5 minutes.

Try making a shortcut on the desktop with -dxlevel 70 handle, seems to have resolved to issue for me.

I'll try that but.........what exactly does that do?

Wait, how do I make a shortcut for an HL2 mod? There's no exe file for FF.

[Demasu]

Go to the folder with steam.exe and then create a shortcut of it(right click > create shortcut). Then right click the shortcut, go find the target field, and put "-applaunch 215 -game "(path to the fortressforever folder(\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\FortressForever )"" (without the very first and the very last quotes). I was able to run FF using this method, just make sure you have everything EXACTLY right.

Ok, so it's supposed to look like this?

-applaunch 215 -game (\steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\FortressForever)

Or like this?

-applaunch 215 -game D:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\FortressFor ever

The Steam folder being in my D partition.