My NS crashes after I make a connection with a server. After I join, I can't quit or apply settings or even map change without NS crashing my computer, which then leads to me restarting over and over. Can you help?

I gotta feeling that sounds like a hardware issue. Got ur system specs for us?

I think that could be a hardware issue, un-updated GFX card drivers or simple bad installation. Does your game just crash or are there any 'Missing DLLs' Messages?

Hmm very good point! I'm not at all sure . Thanks for your response! BTW I'm running a 2yr old comp on a WIN98 if that helps...

A good way to test if it is a graphics issue and nothing to do with wrong verions would be to start a local game server.

Run NS, then click "Start local game server".
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Things to check:
Drivers (as always, esp video)
Your cards compatibility with OpenGL. (Although this would usualy yield a message saying NS does not support Software mode, so I find this unlikely.)
Custom configs (remove them for now)


" My NS crashes after I make a connection with a server. After I join, I can't quit or apply settings or even map change without NS crashing my computer,"

These are 2 different things. Does your NS crash as soon as you make the connection, or as soon as you change settings/ change map?