STARTUP MENU WON'T WORK HELP D:

[_もぜ1R//*]

Hey guy's, Just brought NS2 been waiting to play with my friends for the past 2 1/2 hours when my startup menu wont work at all, I have no options to change the GPU setup nor my startup menu wont work either

I've tried everything reinstalling, getting rid of %appdata% ns2 shaders
then validating ns2 on steam

Im using the most recent Steam "Beta" released on the 18th / may / 2012

My build is
Win7 x64
16gb ram
gtx660ti
x2 gtx550ti
intel i5 3470 overclocked to 4.3ghz
asus p8-z77-v-pro motherboard

Here's the print screen link
http://steamcommunity.com/id/bluescope93/screenshot/542960665356795489 <- options menu

the second time i tried to upload to menu now steam overlay wont work

help

[_もぜ1R//*]

Nvidia Driver is 314.22
Monitoring system is MSI Afterburner

[Gimcrack]

Turn off SLI, use one card for now.

[_もぜ1R//*]

Not using SLI mate
Can't run SLI with a different model card in the system
the x2 GTX550TI's are for PreRendering and Cuda Processing

[_もぜ1R//*]

primary card is the GTX660TI

[Gimcrack]

I've never seen so many GPUs in an average build, so it is likely you are a fringe case with a unique hardware setup. Humor me and take out the two 550's and see if it does anything? If it doesn't, I appologize.

[_もぜ1R//*]

they aren't really average they are all overclocked and on a water cooling loop i can't exactly take them out of my system...

[Gimcrack]

Does it freeze on the main menu, or can you still access the console by pressing the ~ button?

[_もぜ1R//*]

i can still access console

[_もぜ1R//*]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/bluescope93/screenshot/542960665358007521

Does this help ^
(Print Screen of console)

[Gimcrack]

Okay, this is good news... you can do some workarounds with the console if you want to play the game or change settings.

here are some useful commands I know from the top of my head:

r_stats //sows render data and timings for CPU and GPU
connect <IP:port> //connects to ip address

i_rawinput 1 //sets raw input
i_accel 0 //turns off mouse accel
i_sensitivity <number> //mouse sens.

print_bindings //shows all key bindings
bind <key> <function> //manual key binding

r_atmospherics <0 or 1> //turns off/on foggy lights
r_bloom <0 or 1> //turns off/on bloom
r_shadows <0 or 1> //turns off/on shadows
r_mt <0 or 1> //disable/enable multithreading
r_aa <0 or 1> //disable/enable antialiasing
r_anisotropic <0 or 1> //disable/enable anistrophic filtering
r_ao <0 or 1> //ambient occlusion off/on

[Gimcrack]

Oh, as for your screenshot of the console, looks like bad beans man. Might wanna post your log file located in %appdata%\Natural Selection 2\log.txt

[_もぜ1R//*]

[Client] Script Error #1609: lua/MainMenu.lua:327: attempt to call global 'StartSoundEffect' (a nil value)
Call stack:
#1: MainMenu_OnMouseIn lua/MainMenu.lua:327
#2: callback lua/menu/GUIMainMenu.lua:337
self = Link { }
buttonPressed = false
#3: OnMouseIn lua/menu/MenuElement.lua:658
self = Link { }
buttonPressed = false
(for generator) = function
(for state) = {1=function }
(for control) = 1
_ = 1
callback = function
#4: OnMouseMove lua/menu/WindowManager.lua:42
self = WindowManager { }
pressed = false
element = Image { }
window = Window { }
#5: MouseTracker_SendKeyEvent lua/menu/MouseTracker.lua:155
key = 115
down = true
amount = 5
inputBlocked = false
screenWidth = 1920
screenHeight = 1080
(for generator) = function
(for state) = {1=WindowManager { } }
(for control) = 1
index = 1
listener = WindowManager { }
#6: lua/InputHandler.lua:179
key = 115
down = true
amount = 5
repeated = false
[Client] Script Error #1610: lua/MainMenu.lua:359: attempt to call global 'StartSoundEffect' (a nil value)
Call stack:
#1: MainMenu_OnCloseMenu lua/MainMenu.lua:359
#2: LeaveMenu lua/MainMenu.lua:77
#3: lua/MainMenu.lua:371
Error: Attempted to load remote options from a file that does not exist.

Here you go.

[Gimcrack]

Seems like a file is missing, let me look at my files and see where the StartSoundEffect function shows up.

[Gimcrack]

In the mean time, you can post this log to NS2's official support forum:

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/categories/technical-support

[_もぜ1R//*]

FIX FOR ERROR

DELETE THESE FOLDERS

(insert drive letter here) :\ (program files x86) (program files) \Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\system\lua

(insert drive letter here) :\ (program files x86) (program files) \Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2\shaders

(insert drive letter here) :\ (program files x86) (program files) \Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2\lua

(insert drive letter here) :\ (program files x86) (program files) \Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\core\shaders

(insert drive letter here) :\ (program files x86) (program files) \Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\core\lua

%AppData%\Roaming\Natural Selection 2

Now revalidate your files on steam

Go back to " %AppData%\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\ " and open system_options.xml and force the correct resolution for your monitor and turn <anti-aliasing>true</anti-aliasing> to <anti-aliasing>false</anti-aliasing>

Here's my system_options.xml if you want to copy it
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<options>
<system>
<runs>16</runs>
<build>246</build>
</system>
<graphics>
<display>
<bloom>true</bloom>
<x-resolution>1920</x-resolution>
<anisotropic-filtering>true</anisotropic-filtering>
<window-mode>fullscreen</window-mode>
<atmospherics>true</atmospherics>
<fov-adjustment>0.000000</fov-adjustment>
<shadows>true</shadows>
<y-resolution>1080</y-resolution>
<display-buffering>0</display-buffering>
<ambient-occlusion>off</ambient-occlusion>
<anti-aliasing>false</anti-aliasing>
<particles>high</particles>
<quality>1</quality>
</display>
<reflections>false</reflections>
<texture-streaming>false</texture-streaming>
<multithreaded>true</multithreaded>
<infestation>rich</infestation>
<decallifetime>0.200000</decallifetime>
</graphics>
<soundVolume>90</soundVolume>
<sound>
<output-device>Default</output-device>
<input-device>Default</input-device>
</sound>
<voiceVolume>90</voiceVolume>
<musicVolume>90</musicVolume>
</options>


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I hope this helps

Regards
[MonashCS] [N.D.GamingCommunity] bluesc0pe "Tim"