Snd_restart game crashes?

[Spook]

I've found out recently that anytime the game sound dies, and you type snd_restart, my game crashes. I can type the command in any other time and it's fine, but if the sound actually goes out, the game just goes non-responsive and closes.

I run Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, but I'm not sure if this is just a vista bug, or a full blown b.21 bug, or even possibly just a bug with my DP.

[Justinph5]

atmays you just ask to get into situations....

anyways... I never knew about snd_restart....    I had Conexant HD Audio, and whenever I switched from speakers to my headphones for vent, I would have to restart cuz the sound would die...   Does this only happen when sound dies then you try to restart it... Cuz I just pulled up DP and did snd_restart fine on Vista HP 32bit.... I can't replicate sounds failure right now tho.

P.S. Could there be an error with trying to snd_restart if you have a certain sound driver... I think there's more probability of other problems, but just tossing this out there to get answered.

[Spook]

Keep your "the hackers are innocent" bullexcrement out of my thread.

Justin, I can only replicate the game crash if the sound actually dies, and I have a fairly good sound card with all the drivers updated also, so I don't think that's the problem.

[coLa]

lmfao. is that the only sound restart command in the game? try s_restart. how long has it been happening? after you updated to 21?

[Spook]

lmfao. is that the only sound restart command in the game? try s_restart. how long has it been happening? after you updated to 21?

Can't say, I never had the chance to test it on my xp rig, I bought this comp and then put b.21 on it, so as far as I know, it's a b.21 or vista problem.

[coLa]

hm... so i guess that doesn't really narrow it down. lol. in for the fix.

[Herron]

I can only replicate the game crash if the sound actually dies, and I have a fairly good sound card with all the drivers updated also, so I don't think that's the problem.

What card do you  have?  I've encountered this problem in TF2 with my Soundblaster Fatal1ty XtremeGamer Pro Series... just wondering if maybe it's a Soundblaster driver problem (assuming you have a Soundblaster).

Also, are you using s_primary "0"?  It should be the default (and correct) setting, but if you changed it to "1" that may be the cause of the problem -- at least it did some weird stuff to me in the past regardless of what soundcard I was using.

[Spook]

I have the Soundblaster Audigy SE, and yes, my s_primary is 0

[jitspoe]

The sound probably shouldn't die to begin with.  I don't think I've ever had that happen.  If you alt-tab out of the game and back in, does the sound come back?  Do you have 3D sound enabled?

[Spook]

I don't use the 3d sound, and I haven't had a chance to try the alt-tab, the couple of times I've actually needed a snd_restart the game just froze, so that's why I brought this up.