Counter-Strike: Source Forum

I've posted quite a bit in the TF2 forum, reporting bugs, giving feedback, etc. It runs absolutely great (60fps nearly all the time w/my settings). Aside from the lack of DX9/AA and the occasional crash, couldn't ask for more.

Naturally, CSS being less demanding and being a source game too, I thought it'd have no problems running on this system. (not to mention it seems many have had success here)

Bought it through Steam, downloaded it, tweaked settings (dxlevel, resolution, novid, window mode, etc.).

When I tried to join a game, any server... it resulted in CSS hanging at "sending client info..." (2-3 bars left in loading). When I tried to create a game, it freezes at "initializing game data..." (2-3 bars remaining again). I have no idea what's going on. TF2 never did/does this.

And what's strange is that the video stress test works perfectly fine, looks great, high fps the whole time. (800x600). So it's not a 3d rendering issue.

I tried:

• Creating, testing with new bottle
• Installing CX HTML engine
• Verifying game files
• DELETING the files and redownloading the whole game
• Switched between dxlevels 70 - 81
• Turning all settings lowest
• Turning all settings high
• Changing resolutions from lowest to highest
• Widescreen on and off
• Windowed mode on and off
• Tips & Tricks for CSS

Any idea of what could have gone wrong? :(

Many thanks.

iMac 2007 / 2.4Ghz C2D / 4GB RAM / ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro / Mac OS X 10.5.2 + Updates

EDIT: However, CSS seems to run and join servers ok in CrossOver 6. Framerate isn't quite there however, so I still want to find out what happened to CSS and CrossOver 7.

CSS works fine for me on Leopard + MacBook Pro (w/ ATI X1600) + CX7. However, it works only in windowed mode. If I try full screen, it already freezes during game start (after changing the screen resolution and before the CSS background picture is displayed).

The only difference between your and mine setup seems to be the hardware, MacBook Pro vs iMac, which might indicate a driver issue.

johntorque, what happens if you start your own server? Does the problem occur there too?

yes, (i think i mentioned it in the OP), it freezes at initializing.

however, said before too, strangely the video stress test runs no problem.

i don't think it's a driver problem. after all, it connects/creates servers in crossover 6 ;_;

Did you install Steam/CS:S with CrossOver Games, or did you copy the bottle around? If you copied the bottle, try to reinstall Steam. Otherwise, do you have any software installed in the bottle you didn't have in 6.2, or vice versa? I think there's some difference between your bottles, rather than the driver(otherwise the stress test wouldn't work).

To answer your other question in the TF2 forum: Yes, we follow all the app's discussions. Our forum web app can send emails for each forum post(you can enable that for yourself as well), so you might even catch my attention if you post a CS:S question to the Outlook 2007 forum. However, the forums aren't our support system. I sometimes do not have time to answer here, or I miss some posts. If you have any issue, the prefered way to ask for support is the support ticket system(http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/)

wow ^_^

correct, while trying everything possible, I just kept on creating the new bottle, then using the steam installation folder from 6.x (which worked just fine for HL2, TF2, etc.). did this because seemed to work fine until now, and didn't want to waste bandwidth redownloading steam.

i tried an actual steam installation this time with a new bottle in 7 like you suggested and it worked :O

thanks stefan!