Does anyone else have these problems with CS:S?

Okay when you join a server, it pretty much freezes at a loading screen. Then when I hit alt ctrl delete, it shows the game as not responding, so I end it. This doesn't happen to me all the time, but a lot of the time it does. Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

Yes, your connection to the server timed out or you request a file and the request is never acknowledged and Steam isn't smart enough to send another request. Basically, Valve screwed up with the networking code there, although it's a pretty **** good job they do otherwise.

Count yourself lucky that you can get the task manager up to kill it, sometimes I have to navigate "blind" because the stupid loading screen won't minimize.

 

I have the same problem too. Sometimes it freezes up on me during game. Could this be fixed by a patch?

 

The ingame freezing is probably a different issue, related to texture thrashing on your video card - ironically, it was introduced by a patch, and hasn't yet been corrected (Valve refuses to acknowledge that it's their fault).

 

I keep getting datacache.dll errors even after I reformatted my comp.

 

I use to get this a lot, but I kept on restarting the game, or played other games, and now it doesn't happen to source games anymore. This problem really bugs me, I hope they fix it. At first I thought it was Norton, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't because it asked me to allow Source, the first time I played it. Also I disabled Norton and it still happened. I checked the Steam support and I it says something it may be a problem with the firewall. The problem is I don't even think I have a firewall up, I know I don't have the Windows Firewall, up and I don't think I put up any other firewall, so it I'm pretty sure I don't have one up. Also is there a way to check if you have a firewall up?

 

Do you guys know what causes the datacache.dll errors?

 

I have been around steam games since the system was in beta oh about 5-6 years ago and played counterstrike on the won servers before that. Asking the support team/valve coders/steam people to fix a problem is like asking gasoline vapors to not explode on contact with open flame. Their company subscribes to the belief that a game should constantly take up 100% of your CPU. Unlike other companies that are like this they don't add cool new features or anything to use up the extra bandwidth, they allow their coders to get sloppy and let your CPU and GPU take care of the extra overhead. On my gaming desktop I started out getting 212 FPS on de_dust. Now I hover around 60 to 100. At the rate its falling (about 20 fps a patch) I won't be able to play the game anymore by march or April. My laptop gets around 50-60 FPS and will probably be dropping into the 30-40 fps next patch.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind developers releasing patches or adding new content. Valve as no consideration for their customers. As soon as they have your money they no longer care at all. If you go on the official steam or counterstrike source forums every second post is yet another user who has been knocked out of the range of playable frame rates by a recent update.

The reason I don't expect meaningful updates from valve is because of the obscene amount of time it takes them to fix anything at all. During the beta and at launch of counter-strike source there was a bug in the viewpoint of the player when you were crouching -- namely it was in your crotch. This bug was finally fixed about 3 patches ago around October. And with all the new content they are pushing they overlook serious bugs -- team switch crash anyone? I personally dread the day they attempt to put in dual core or 64 bit support. Why? Because they will now feel the need to max both my cores and will do it not with new features, but with useless overhead and crappy code.

Enjoy it while you still can
Band-aid

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Looks like my turn to get hit by CS problems. After re-installing the game I keep getting with the same error message over and over. I'll double-click to start CS, 'updating counter-strike' will appear in the taskbar accompanied with nothing else and than an error will pop-up followed by Steam closing down. The error message is: 'Steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 010AEA54 : Attempt to read from virtual address 0 without appropriate access rights'. WTF

I re-installed again and still get hit by the same thing. This is really cheesing me off because I don't why it would it suddenly become unplayable. I could play fine before the re-installs, but began experiencing some choppy performance - which I thought would remedy it.

Give me some band-aid

 

Did you change your Windows virtual memory settings? Wild shot: allocate say 1GB more virtual memory, and see if it changes anything.

 

Nevermind, solved the problem. Back to getting headshotted

 

When I added more ram a couple days ago, I stoped having problems with Counter-Strike:Source not one problem since.