Game freezing in irregular intervalls

Myxir · 03-09-2008, 08:49 PM

Since the latest Update I suffer frequent freezes of Regnum. After an uncertain time of gameplay the game freezes shortly for one second. This lasts around a minute and then the game runs fine again. The game freezes every second or third second during this period which makes playing impossible.
Also I got the following issue several times today. I saw a player moving towards me. Well... I did not see the player, I only saw his turban and his staff. I was not able to choose him as my target. However, in Windowed mode the screen shot function does not work anymore.
I wanted to attach a screenshot here but it was not saved in the screenshot folder.
I use 169.12 Nvidia driver, released in February, with a GeForce8600GTS.
No, I won't downgrade my driver, since older drivers show the freezing problem, too. I lock out a system problem, since Regnum is the only Application with that problem. UT2004 is running fine. By the way, the new nvidia drivers improved the performance for 8xxx series a lot. In Regnum I get ~20 FPS more than before.
Well. I am still using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. This could possibly be a problem here since it is a bit old. Maybe too old for this fast changing world.

GIGO305 · 03-09-2008, 08:51 PM

i think this is what been happening to alot of us making it look like a server crash

Myxir · 03-09-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by GIGO305

i think this is what been happening to alot of us making it look like a server crash

No! Not just Regnum freezes. It is my complete System. Even Amarok stops playing music.

Znurre · 03-09-2008, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Myxir

No! Not just Regnum freezes. It is my complete System. Even Amarok stops playing music.

I've had similar problems.... Try disable Post Processing.

GIGO305 · 03-09-2008, 11:16 PM

then it must be your ram exict any thing else running in your computer lately i been playing wiht an ipod because of itunes and exeting yahoo mesenger and myspace IM because of the lag and some times computer usage

surak · 03-09-2008, 11:41 PM

I have this same problem

it showed up since I installed 169.xx drivers. I tried safe mode and it seemed to work fine... but I didn't play too much. Looks like some opengl-extension is causing trouble.

GIGO305 · 03-10-2008, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by surak

I have this same problem

it showed up since I installed 169.xx drivers. I tried safe mode and it seemed to work fine... but I didn't play too much. Looks like some opengl-extension is causing trouble.

ill try game in safe mode maybe it can help with lag

ArcticWolf · 03-10-2008, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by surak

I have this same problem

it showed up since I installed 169.xx drivers. I tried safe mode and it seemed to work fine... but I didn't play too much. Looks like some opengl-extension is causing trouble.

Same problem here. Just that when I use the 100 drivers, X restarts when using opengl. I didn't change a thing, since I use the installer from nvidia. I got some crashes with ubuntu (running 169)... Shall I pack 'em and post 'em?

Myxir · 03-10-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by surak

I have this same problem

it showed up since I installed 169.xx drivers. I tried safe mode and it seemed to work fine... but I didn't play too much. Looks like some opengl-extension is causing trouble.

I am just sitting in school and read this

Well, I experienced this with the earlier drivers, too. I did not play much, too in the last time so I cannot say that for sure but I am quite sure that this happened with the older drivers too but not that frequent. And the behaviour that Xeph described.

And Gigo... It is not my RAM. I have 2GB of RAM and when playing regnum it is used 60-80%. And my 800MB of SWAP is not used.

On some startups I also crash after choosing character. I remember an error concerning lua. Something like:
PANIC: attempted to call a nil(or null, not sure here) lua value
I am sitting in school right now. I'll give the exact error later but I do not think that this is related to this.

Blaine · 03-11-2008, 06:27 PM

I have also freezing problems but not only the game nor the whole system, by me the xserver freezes (so I can't use my keyboard and mouse and have to restart like happy customers of M$)
I tried setting different types of game settings but it seems not to be dependent on it

I have ATi Mobility Radeon X1300 with fglrx 8.02 working satisfactorily on Ubuntu 7.10, Xorg 7.2

and a little more - I think it happens only in fulscreen, in windowed mode only the game window crashes

03-09-2008, 08:49 PM	#1
Myxir Count Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Germany Posts: 1,164	Game freezing in irregular intervalls Since the latest Update I suffer frequent freezes of Regnum. After an uncertain time of gameplay the game freezes shortly for one second. This lasts around a minute and then the game runs fine again. The game freezes every second or third second during this period which makes playing impossible. Also I got the following issue several times today. I saw a player moving towards me. Well... I did not see the player, I only saw his turban and his staff. I was not able to choose him as my target. However, in Windowed mode the screen shot function does not work anymore. I wanted to attach a screenshot here but it was not saved in the screenshot folder. I use 169.12 Nvidia driver, released in February, with a GeForce8600GTS. No, I won't downgrade my driver, since older drivers show the freezing problem, too. I lock out a system problem, since Regnum is the only Application with that problem. UT2004 is running fine. By the way, the new nvidia drivers improved the performance for 8xxx series a lot. In Regnum I get ~20 FPS more than before. Well. I am still using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. This could possibly be a problem here since it is a bit old. Maybe too old for this fast changing world. __________________ French Warriors of Syrtis: Nessa Telrunya (Hunter) - Myxir (Warlock) - Estra (Conjurer) In War it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

03-09-2008, 11:41 PM	#6
surak Legend Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oslo Posts: 2,176	I have this same problem it showed up since I installed 169.xx drivers. I tried safe mode and it seemed to work fine... but I didn't play too much. Looks like some opengl-extension is causing trouble. __________________ Surak Remember... this is just a game! - Xephandor existe y Miriya es su profeta!

03-09-2008, 08:51 PM	#2
GIGO305 Banned Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: with ur mom Posts: 939	i think this is what been happening to alot of us making it look like a server crash

03-09-2008, 11:16 PM	#5
GIGO305 Banned Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: with ur mom Posts: 939	then it must be your ram exict any thing else running in your computer lately i been playing wiht an ipod because of itunes and exeting yahoo mesenger and myspace IM because of the lag and some times computer usage

03-11-2008, 06:27 PM	#10
Blaine Initiate Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Praha, Prague, Prag, Praga Posts: 153	I have also freezing problems but not only the game nor the whole system, by me the xserver freezes (so I can't use my keyboard and mouse and have to restart like happy customers of M$) I tried setting different types of game settings but it seems not to be dependent on it I have ATi Mobility Radeon X1300 with fglrx 8.02 working satisfactorily on Ubuntu 7.10, Xorg 7.2 and a little more - I think it happens only in fulscreen, in windowed mode only the game window crashes