Vandagriff 1st MRB

It still doesn't change the fact that USA beat Canada in hockey, in Canada. Oh Shnap!

Thanks. But yea, maybe this will help others in the future if they want to fix this problem.

Wow, I think I may have found a fix for what was going wrong. Apparently the MOTD screen WAS what caused the sound loop error. I fixed the textwindow_temp.html file that someone said to fix and now I can join the server! I may not get to see the MOTD anymore but hey, at least I get to play right?

Outside of what some of the others have said here I only have a few things to add. Going from how agitated you are from what you said our unit has done to you, how do you expect to deal with it when an employer/fellow employees decide to treat you the same? Deciding to up and quit your job isn't exactly going to help your wallet and time. While you may have been a Lt. in another unit, this is not that unit, and as such you need to understand that any time you relocate you have to start fresh. You aren't around the same people you used to be with and as such can't expect things to be the same as what your accustomed too. On a final note, everyone here also lives in the real world, and as such the real world plays into this game, through people's personalities, opinions, and processes of doing things. You are going to have to learn to be able to adjust to what and who you are dealing with, and if there is a problem, you look for help. I think if you had asked for some help with this problem then we would not be seeing your resignation right now. Unfortunately things don't always go the way you want, but you pick up what you got and you move on.

Looks like I may have to, but for now i'll just have to deal without. I just don't understand how changing from xp to win 7 64 bit could have caused something like this to happen. The hardware didn't change, just the software.

Well i've already updated my chipset/audio/lan drivers for my motherboard and it still hasnt fixed the problem. I guess i'll just keep looking day by day and see what happens. I think it's definitely a sound card issue, as I have been reading about some sound loop errors that crash both dods and css

Fooled around with the drivers and its still freezes. I've noticed the time it works (on random occaisons), is when there is noone playing on the server. Either noone's on the server or they are spectating. And if there are players playing then its a higher chance it freezes.

On a side note, CSS and DODS worked fine when I was running windows XP 32 bit on the same motherboard/drivers/harddrives and same Graphics card as I am currently now with windows 7 x64 bit

I've already turned off UAC and have no administrator issues whatsoever. It's just weird how it randomly lets me play and most of the time it just freezes. I think it may be grapchis as well, but how could I run other source mods such as Insurgency no problem and other source engine games, but specifically DODS and CSS have this strange issue. Of course other games like Command and Conquer '95 keeps minimizing and won't let me play, but I don't really have a hard on to play. I'll just have to try and reinstall old graphics drivers and see what happens. I love win 7 and be more than willing to give up CSS and DODS to keep it, but best case scenario i'd like to have both.

BIOS updated, AVG installed. Still no luck; as far as the sound drivers go, I use the on-board sound card, but have HD drivers installed from RealTek.

Yes Win 7 x64 is a clean install, there is currently no anti-virus software on my computer but I do have windows firewall on, although im positive I allowed the hl2.exe access to the internet. Currently there is no fragmentation with dods. Remember that my whole computer does NOT crash, just the game locks up completely at the MOTD screen, and the sound loops as well, without the ability to Alt-Tab, so I had to use my second monitor to end process. I tried turning off Windows Firewall but the same thing happened with one exception. Sometimes it works when I play it in windowed mode, but im not sure what would allow it to randomly work in windowed mode or not. Also I noticed that Win 7 has some kind of Aero Themes, could those interfere at all with the game? P.S. I just updated my graphics drivers last night so I know they are up-to-date

Ok so i'm not exactly sure when this started happening but I know it's since I updated to windows 7. Now CSS and DODS load up fine, I can browse servers and all that good stuff, and I can even start connecting to them just fine. However after I have actually connected to a server and that first screen that shows the MOTD shows up, the game just completely locks itself up, I can't alt + tab or anything; luckily I have a dual-monitor setup to task manager end process hl2.exe Now I'm not really sure exactly what's causing these 2 games to lockup because many other games, and some that even run off the source engine like TF2 or Insurgency Mod run just fine, it's just specifically these 2 games. I know it can't be a overheating issue because I play Crysis, Microsoft Flight Simulator, which are graphically and resource intensive. If there is anyone who has these same issues or an idea as to what I could do to fix it please feel free to pitch in some ideas, as I have read some others having the same issue but noone seems to have found a way to fix it. Win 7 64 bit Professional 2.25TB Total Hard Drive (4 drives) 8gb DDR2 RAM Sapphire ATI Radeon 4890 1GB VRAM Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz (2.4 Ghz)

Just go fly, that will get rid of research papers hahahahaha

Get the LUBE!!

Longhorns ftw!

Radeon 4890 1GB with Q6600 Quad Core, run at avg of 99-120 on donner

Maybe some century we might see SCII

Yep, the Raccoon City Defense. I still have some of those if you want to get together and try it sometime, although 2 of us holding off my get us easily rocked.. but who knows?

As far as the Zombie-Shooters go, I liked some of the Resident Evil user maps some would come up with. Like the Resident Evil Raccoon City Versions, the Code Veronica X, and others.

Rise Against - Savior

TBS, Very Funny

She's a real winner!

I have it and on occasion still play it, but i'm more of a user map settings player. Not too good at the whole ladder matches or the such, I just like playing the custom scripted maps that users come up with. But I don't mind playing if you want to play sometime.

Yea, it was a bit disappointing with the story and how it played out. The gameplay was pretty good though, and spec ops can be real fun trying to run it with a buddy. MP on the PC is fun but still frustrating because of the whole p2p issue and lag, and hoping the game you get into has little to no lag, even though iw claims their iwnet takes you to good ping servers. Those titles and emblems also spell console port for me, since these were first started on console games, and this is the first pc game that I personally have seen them on.

haha, it happens. Lesson learned!