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Whenever I try to load the server list my computer locks up and the sound starts looping. This happens in Steam as well as in the game. I can load favorites or history up fine, but the internet list just instantly locks my computer up.

I get no error message and there is no log to be found anywhere. Sometimes it does work though, around one out of the ten to twenty tries seems to work and the only way it does work is if I have been playing on a server for a while.

The game runs fine, it’s only the retrieving server list that crashes my computer. I can play hours on one end without a crash when I am in the server. I am running vista ultimate 64 bit. No hardware errors whatsoever, so it is not hardware related. I believe it is steam related as I can retrieve server lists of other games like call of duty 4 no problem.

Thanks in advance

Go to your steam folder, delete clientregistry.blobb (close steam first), re-run steam and it’ll update itself again. If that fails, re-install the entire program, if that fails use hlsw.

you should back up “config|serverbrowser.vdf”.

edit: if you dont, your favourites are dead.

All the above solutions do not seem to work, it might be a problem within windows vista then.