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LonesomeCrow
10-14-2008, 05:22 PM
After the recent update, the game periodically freezes on me. The behavior is similar to lag, but I don't believe that is the cause.

It can happen at anytime, while I'm riding my horse around, or while I'm sitting alone on a beach. The game will freeze for a few seconds, free up for a half second, freeze again etc.. for several minutes. Then it will be fine again for a period - repeat

There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, I can play for an hour straight with no trouble, then I'll have this issue off an on for the next 20 mins and be fine again for a while. This happens often enough to make the game unplayable for me now.

With the ping window open I can see my ping (normally around 200 ms) shoot up to 2000 or more (both game ping and server ping)

When this happens, my entire machine is usually slowed or even frozen as well. I have made no changes (zero!) to my system since I began playing regnum - before the patch I never experienced this freezing issue (although I did experience the occasional crash).

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (with xfce - not xubuntu) Nvidia 6800 with the latest drivers.

I will try to run in safe mode when I log in tonight - but even if this works this is a poor solution - it wasn't necessary before the patch.

thanks for any suggestions.

onemyndseye
10-15-2008, 07:40 AM
Have the same problem myself :(


Check out my post here for something that may help abit:

http://regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=31247




Take care,
-One Mynds Eye

LonesomeCrow
10-15-2008, 06:00 PM
Thanks for the reply onemyndseye.


I tried a few things last night:

1. reinstalled the entire game (didn't help)
2. Tried starting in 'safe mode' (couldn't get past the firewall check for some reason)
3. Replaced my mouse pad.
4. Turned on the option to download all resources.

I also noticed that I can change the game resolution, it was defaulted to 1024,768 (If I recall correctly), my monitor's resolution is at 1168x1024 so I set the game res to match my monitor res.

It took quite a LONG time to download all the resources, but once they were all downloaded, things ran smoothly. And now that I'm at native resolution, the Regnum world looks MUCH better.

In fact, things have never been better! It no longer hesitates when switching between FS and windowed mode, I have a wider field of view, everything just looks tons better!, and best of all, I experienced zero freezes! (OH YES!)

I guess we'll see how things work this weekend when the war zone goes crazy again.

I'm not sure which of the steps actually fixed the issue, but I suspect it had something to do with my mousepad.

LonesomeCrow
10-24-2008, 12:51 AM
Well I knew it was too good to be true. The freezes are back, and worse than ever.

I've tried onemyndseye's script, but it makes no noticable difference. I've run out of things to try.

can anyone recommend a tool, command or ANYTHING I can use to diagnose this issue?

In 8+ years of running linux, I've never once seen an application that will periodically freeze the entire machine like this. Even as I type this (with regnum running in windowed mode), It freezes, and I have to wait to continue typing.

I'd love to continue playing regnum, and but not if it performs like this.

Please help.

Froste
10-24-2008, 03:01 AM
It really shouldn't be freezing the entire computer, it sounds like you've got another process that's competing with regnum (maybe a browser open with flash running, flash takes a lot of cpu).

LonesomeCrow
10-24-2008, 04:52 PM
It would appear as though I have an issue with overheating. Last night I noticed that my card was running at 90 degrees F at idle, and while running Regnum it jumps up to 100+! Yikes!

Thanks for the replies. I'll see what I can do about keeping things cool ;)

Mikan
10-24-2008, 06:37 PM
It would appear as though I have an issue with overheating. Last night I noticed that my card was running at 90 degrees F at idle, and while running Regnum it jumps up to 100+! Yikes!

Thanks for the replies. I'll see what I can do about keeping things cool ;)
Actually, 90*F is low for a video card, it's barely above room temperature. Most cards can handle up to about 80*C or 176*F, and their normal operating temperature should be around 60*C or 140*F.

Regards,

LonesomeCrow
10-24-2008, 08:03 PM
Actually, 90*F is low for a video card, it's barely above room temperature. Most cards can handle up to about 80*C or 176*F, and their normal operating temperature should be around 60*C or 140*F.

Regards,

Of course you are right. The temp monitor I refer to is in Celsius not Fahrenheit.

Thanks

Inkaine
10-25-2008, 06:05 AM
You're not alone, LonesomeCrow.

I have the exact same problem. These freezes appear since the last update and the computer just stops working for a couple of seconds. First I thought it was lagging until I realized the whole system was frozen. When using teamspeak even all communication gets stopped. Others I've talked to have it too, and it doesn't seem to be only Linux related. At least one Windows user is reporting it too.

It's a serious issue if you suddenly freeze in a battle movement up front - the server then interpolates your position, and you suddenly find yourself in between or behind enemy lines. Not really good.

I wonder if it's related to graphics card driver or something though? I'm on ATI here, ArchLinux with kernel 2.6.26, Catalyst 8.9. The other spec u can see below.

Mikan
10-25-2008, 10:05 PM
You're not alone, LonesomeCrow.

I have the exact same problem. These freezes appear since the last update and the computer just stops working for a couple of seconds. First I thought it was lagging until I realized the whole system was frozen. When using teamspeak even all communication gets stopped. Others I've talked to have it too, and it doesn't seem to be only Linux related. At least one Windows user is reporting it too.

It's a serious issue if you suddenly freeze in a battle movement up front - the server then interpolates your position, and you suddenly find yourself in between or behind enemy lines. Not really good.

I wonder if it's related to graphics card driver or something though? I'm on ATI here, ArchLinux with kernel 2.6.26, Catalyst 8.9. The other spec u can see below.
I have this problem as well, but only after recently switching to ATI.

The game freezes for periods of time and it ruins it. Most of the freezes are small, spanning only a few seconds, but I've encountered 20-30 second freezes (not lag) on bridges and in wars.

I can be getting 100 FPS (and often do), but still suffer from these freezes. They go away when I lower texture quality to medium or low, but that does not work properly on ATI cards, resulting in broken textures.

And it is not a background process or another program interfering, as it only affects Regnum Online.

Hopefully NGD will give us some kind of official reply on this issue soon.

Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor @ 2.2GHz
2GB Low-latency DDR2-800 RAM, configured for Dual-Channel
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro w/ 256MB GDDR3 at 1.4GHz (PCI-Express x16, Catalyst 8.10)
3.0 Mbps (512 Kbps upload) Cable Internet Connection

Regards,