Crash on server creation. Options

[dukeextreme]

NS crashes when I create a new game. But it runs fine when I join games. After it crashes and I start up NS again. It'll say that I can't run in OpenGL and it will run in software mode. From there I cannot change from Software Render to OpenGL until I restart the comp altogether. After restart, I can join games fine, but will crash again if I create a server.

[LordSkitch]

The server doesn't care what kinda video card you got, I have a Voodoo4 4500 in mine, just because that's what I had lying around.. and its got drivers that work on win2k3 as a standard, so what do I care...

NS .. if I dare say it.. is like the worst efficiently coded of the mods.. I mean it's completely obvious if you look at the resource usage, NS is very VERY heavy on memory too..

A likely cause is yer OS.. 98 is.. ... how to put this... crap. It's totally not designed for a server environment.

I'd recommend upgrading to Win2k Server or Win2k3 if you can get ahold of it... Win2k server is available at almost EVERY college for like $20, and Win2k3... well, that's a hard one to get a hold of, and can cost anywhere from $1000 to $4000 depending on which flavor you get.

As for the processor you have, I had a AMD K7 old school athlon @ 750mhz running an 8 bot server fine, but then again I have a gig of ram in that server..

I'd suggest first to strip off all the addons you have, even RCBot, then see if it runs. If it does, add them back one at a time to see if you can whittle it down to a specific 1 or 2, or a clash between two or whatever. If it doesn't run, I'd suggest a trip over to http://www.memtest86.com/ and grab their memory tester, and do some deep scans on your ram.