Is it normal that the game crashes a lot?

[HalfBob42]

I don't see anything wrong with my PC, but the game tends to freeze with looping sound.

Specs:
Windows XP SP2 or SP1
Athlon XP 1800+
512 DDR Ram
Radeon 9700 Pro Cat 3.9 or 4.0

 

[Hypertony]

What were you doing when the game crashes?

 

[HalfBob42]

I found out that my router was causing the problems (caused connection overflow in the game) and that I had to open Steam ports. Thanks though.

 

[budgie55]

what router Halfbob? and what ports did you open ... I may try this as a last resort have tried everything else..

Cheers for any help

 

[HalfBob42]

Linksys BEFS41 Version 1

27000-27015 UDP
27030-27039 TCP

 

[budgie55]

thanks for the quick reply m8 turns out to be same router as mine hehe

going to open up those ports now and give it a try

Dont suppose you also had to update the firmware also did ya?

 

[HalfBob42]

thanks for the quick reply m8 turns out to be same router as mine hehe

going to open up those ports now and give it a try

Dont suppose you also had to update the firmware also did ya?

Don't know. I'm using
1.46.02, Aug 03 2004

EDIT: Also, try rightclicking on CSS in the Play Games menu -> Properties -> Launch Options
and in the box put
+clientport 27006

 

[niugiovanni]

I tried that to no avail (same router)

 

[xrmx]

I keeped on getting these errors when playing counter strike online

(Logged from the console)

Fragment transmission aborted at 1/1.
Received fragment out of order: 135/1
Fragment transmission aborted at 1/1.
Received fragment out of order: 135/1
Received fragment out of order: 136/1
Fragment transmission aborted at 1/1.

Failed to load sound "ambient/animal/flies4.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository
Failed to load sound "ambient/animal/flies5.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository
Failed to load sound "ambient/animal/flies3.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository
Failed to load sound "ambient/animal/flies1.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository
Failed to load sound "ambient/animal/flies3.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository

Hopeing a rebuild would fix it i deided to reinstall everything. Then found out that it was just the router.. Added the ports and specified the client port, now works fine (touch wood)

Spec :
Windows XP, SP2
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
Nivida 5700
1GB DDR RAM

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

The sound bug I get all the time, don't think anything of it though. I asked in a server I was in and most of them said they got the bug too.

 

[pingu]

Yes I've had crashing all the time since the beta, in every possible way.

I've reinstalled my graphics card with about a billion different drivers.

I've added more ram.

I've messed around with the heapsize thing.

I've lowered graphics settings.

Only CS:S crashes, nothing else, I've had this problem for AGES, and still NO FIX FROM VALVE!

 

[comradpoplin!]

yeh i have this problem 2 thging is sometimes i dont get the sound loop and that seems funny as everybody i read about gets the sound loop all the timeive tested everything in my machine 2 or 3 diffrent ways each and no answer yet.
VALVES customer relations really does stink on this matter i have sent a bug report to them everytime this happens i sudjest everybody else does the same the more we hound them the quicker it might get fixed!

 

[The Weatherman]

HalfBob42 - How do you open steam ports

I found out that my router was causing the problems (caused connection overflow in the game) and that I had to open Steam ports. Thanks though.

How do you open these Steam Ports?
27000-27015 UDP
27030-27039 TCP

 

[sushishem]

i am having simular lockup errors, heres a picture
http://www.aaohq.com/shem/errors.jpg