Client causing X to become non-responsive (GeForce 7600 / Gentoo Linux).

[Kiirani]

Edit Hey sorry that I forgot to update this as soon as I tested, it was about 12am at the time. The new drivers have in fact fixed the problem, now running 173.14.05.

Hey, just attempted to play regnum again, I'm having a problem. Apart from the textures and effects being fairly broken, that is.

During gameplay (usually during pvp, sigh) the game will freeze. Mouse continues to move but commands to the character stop responding. I get a few frames of the movement around me, then it's utterly frozen.
Attempting to click out of the window and kill the game proves that X itself has gone non-responsive. The MOUSE moves, but I can't control it.

Method from then on :
Attempt ctrl+alt+f1, nothing.
ssh in from laptop, attempt chvt 1 as root, nothing.
Kill X (and therefore regnum)
Screen blanks.
Attempt chvt 1 and ctrl+alt+f1 again, nothing.
Start X again from ssh, this works, and my input is working on all fronts again.

This is an install of the latest Regnum version, on a Nvidia GeForce 7600 dedicated card, with the nvidia drivers (169.12), and, according to portage, Xorg X11 7.3.

Edit Just tested with a 100% clean regnum install, still happens. Also tested in safe mode, same result.

Currently attempting a driver update.

Total: 75 packages (71 upgrades, 1 new, 3 in new slots), Size of downloads: 228,634 kB

Lol, I should update more often. Will post results in a few hours.

[Znurre]

I can tell you that I've got similar problems since NGD implemented the OpenGL 2 specific features, like nice looking water and Post Processing.

I could easily run with those effects without lags
But after a while they will cause strange colors on my screen (even if I can still play), and after an even longer time my whole X server will hang with strange colors all over, sometimes with black stripes too and then you can't even restart the X server.

I've had the same problem with some other games too, so I guess it's not NGD's fault.
The other strange thing is that I have this problem on both my stationary computer and my laptop, and I have tried dozens of different distros.

The only link here is that both computers have got a graphic card from the Geforce 7300 series.

[klixon]

There are newer drivers from nvidia then the buggy 169.12. They at least fix the texture-corruption with DXT5 compressed textures.
Have you tried those?
173.14.05 for x86 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.05.html)
173.14.05 for x86-64 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.05.html)

[Znurre]

It is not related with that problem in any way.
This problem existed even in the very old drivers without this texture problem.

[Froste]

ssh in from your laptop and run "dmesg" next time it happens, see if it mentions anything about agp and/or nvidia at the bottom.

[Kiirani]

All fixed, the drivers I was compiling about an hour after posting this worked, but I was stupid and forgot to update yesterday morning ^_^

It seems that perhaps there's something in the client that doesn't quite work with older drivers? Not entirely sure, I'm hardly an expert on this.

Froste - I may just downgrade the drivers one curious day to see that. It might give me some more insight into what the problem was.