the game is completely hanging up OS

[Werhwolf]

the game is completely freezing and hanging up in addition with the whole system - very rarely, but occasionally: the system does not react at all and i have to restart the computer.
It happens on two different computers with the same OS

OS - OpenSUSE 12.2 X64
Video card - both Nvidia with proprietary drivers.

[Mashu]

I am not from NGD,

What I can tell you is that game shouldn't be able to freez your OS.
This is definitively bug in driver. Anything allowing any application to freez your OS is a bug in OS itself.

You should seek help from driver maintainer or vendor first.

What you can do to help them is after crash, check syslog, because you're problem is driver related.

Options

Check system logs.
Basically from root

# less /var/log/syslog
# less /var/log/messages

Access system logs when system is frozen
If you cannot find anything relevant, you can always install sshd, connect with ssh client from your mobile phone (Android) or laptop. And display content of syslog in real-time
# tail -f /var/log/syslog
Then lunch game to reproduce freez and see what happens, what is reported.


I hope this helps you to find a problem.

But first try updating your drivers !!

[Cuchulainn]

the game is completely freezing and hanging up in addition with the whole system - very rarely, but occasionally: the system does not react at all [...]

I experienced system freezes due to RO only when I had not any swap on. You can verify that your OS uses a swap via:
swapon -s

[Tigerious]

I'm wondering if you are using some 304.xx NVidia drivers...

[Mashu]

I'm wondering if you are using some 304.xx NVidia drivers...

His log says he is using

3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.43 drivers... whatever it means

I think he should get better supported drivers, official ones.
I dont have swap and game is not freezing OS.

[Tigerious]

I went back to the 295.x because it seems I get the same issues on at least 304.17

[Mashu]

Aren't there any open-source nvidia drivers ? or do these commercial ones really work better ? By the way, these binary drivers were always lagging behind with features when compared to mesa, like xrandr or use of GEM, but I am not sure, it should be implemented by now.

[71175]

Aren't there any open-source nvidia drivers ? or do these commercial ones really work better ? By the way, these binary drivers were always lagging behind with features when compared to mesa, like xrandr or use of GEM, but I am not sure, it should be implemented by now.

Actually nouveau is kinda far behind in both perfomance and quality when it comes to games like RO.

[Nekoko]

You need to update to 304.48 or later to avoid the hard locks that happen when playing Regnum Online on a Nvidia Graphics card, I just went back to the 29x series for now I'll update to 30x when it's a little more stable.

[Werhwolf]

ntx all for help:) i install 304.60 driver - hope this fix the problem