Steam eventually crashes while playing Half Life 2 Death Match

steamclosed duplicate

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2173 · opened 2013-03-16 by pizzadude · updated 2013-04-03 · 3 comments · github

Ppizzadude 2013-03-16 github

Playing Half Life 2 Death Match, Steam crashes eventually, usually while speaking with the mic, thus requiring the restart of Steam in order to continue playing the game.

Processor Information:
Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
Speed: 2511 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading:  Unsupported
FCMOV:  Supported
SSE2:  Supported
SSE3:  Supported
SSSE3:  Unsupported
SSE4a:  Unsupported
SSE41:  Unsupported
SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 13 Maya (32 bit)
Kernel Name:  Linux
Kernel Version:  3.2.0-38-generic
X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release:  11103000
X Window Manager:  Openbox
Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-03-08

Video Card:
Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8400 GS/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!

Driver Version:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x6e4
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 16.06" x 10.04"  (18.94" diag)
                                        40.8cm x 25.5cm  (48.1cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 512 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC662 rev1

Memory:
RAM:  2013 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language:  English
LANG:  en_CA.UTF-8
Microphone:  Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available:  148175 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  31028 Mb```

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-03-16 github

Likely related to #1853, there’s a voicechat issue in steam that’s happening for users. It crashes steam which causes this network issue back in the game. Not specific to HL2:DM.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-03-19 github

Closing as a duplicate.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-03 github

Some users have reported that disabling or removing pulseaudio avoids the crash. I understand this isn't a solution, but it's an interesting thing to test to try and localize the problem. If disabling pulseaudio avoids the crash you should report your experience to the pulseaudio folks.

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