Sound Loop crash when I join or press TAB key

**Aldath** · 05-18-09, 10:05 AM

Well i just checked the event viewer and my error is:

"Faulting application left4dead.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x492b66bb, faulting module client.dll, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4a0b41c0, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00347d44, process id 0x123c, application start time 0x01c9d7c8bfa8534e."

**angryvistakid** · 05-18-09, 10:09 AM

Dude, thats whats causing my crashes!!!! That stupid client.dll! Check my thread, it's the ndvd.dll

**what2be** · 05-19-09, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by JMantis

Hey guys, I've had the same problem. Using the event viewer in windows I found out my crashes are related to the ieframe.dll file which is used by Internet Explorer. I think I've found out a solution to my game freezes. I'm not sure if it will work for everyone but when I enter a game and the whole game freezes and the sound starts looping I hit the 'start' button on my keyboard (you can alt-tab as well) and open up Internet Explorer and then close it again. The freeze is gone and I can continue to play the game.

You have to have to have multicore rendering disabled and you have the run the game in windowed mode without borders. I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit myself.

Try it, maybe it works for you too.

MUHAHAHAHHA...you sir , are correct. I didnt even think about looking in my event viewer, but sure enough, ieframe.dll is the culprit.
I did as you recommended with a few minor differences.

1) I played full screen, and just did a crtl-alt-del to bring up task manager.

2) from there I started IE from my quicklaunch tray. Since I was playing in full screen, I couldnt see the IE window, so I just waited a few seconds then right clicked on the ie bar at in my tray window at the bottom of the screen and closed the window.

3) I then clicked on l4d and went right back into the game after a brief pause, and the game was unfrozen and I played!!

TY TY TY..

Next thing im going to try is uninstalling IE7 and see if that will fix the problem permanently without having to do the whole start ie, close it and return to game nonsense.

Side note,

Im actually playing the game through bootcamp on my mac pro. (vista x64, 16gb ram, dual xenon cpu quad cores), and let me tell you it sucked to have to unclick 15 cpu boxes to set affinity everytime I went to play the game!
Using a Radeon 4870 video card with latest drivers. No antivirus, very bare bones install since this is just a os I boot to to play games.

I hope everyone that is having problems with this tries this fix, it worked for me after hours of troubleshooting this pos windows os. SO glad I switched to OSX.