White screen problem

PacShady · 11-22-2007, 09:13 AM

Hey all

Got an issue with Regnum on my Kubuntu Gutsy system. For some reason, after a random amount of time playing, the playing area of the screen goes white (not white objects, actually white like my character suddenly walked into a blizzard). All the menus and such are still there, but I can't see my character or anything else in the world. The only way I can fix it is by quitting and restarting the game. It's happening on both my desktop and my laptop, which both use nVidia cards with 256MB graphics RAM. Not sure yet if the same problem happens on ATI cards, I'll find out soon enough though when it's set up on my girlfriends machine (also running Kubuntu Gutsy).

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I couldn't find anything in the forums, and Google is just confusing lately (lotsa random generated sites with keyword matches, lotsa foreign language sites, and about 3 normal English sites talking about the "white texture/object" problem which is different altogether).

'Shady

Znurre · 11-22-2007, 11:53 AM

Have you tried "Download all resources at once" ?
I don't know if this could help you, but it's worth a try.
Enable it in "Options" in the launcher, and let it download everything. It will take a while.

Good luck

klixon · 11-22-2007, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Znurre

Have you tried "Download all resources at once" ?
I don't know if this could help you, but it's worth a try.
Enable it in "Options" in the launcher, and let it download everything. It will take a while.

Good luck

grin... if you're going to try that, my advice would be to start the game with that option on and go to bed

Angelwinged_Devil · 11-22-2007, 12:40 PM

what happened to the black screen?

Anyway it's happening because the game is downloading the models and such, as it's already been suggested you can avoid it by download all resources at once, it'll download all these models/textures and put em' on your hard drive.

PacShady · 11-22-2007, 03:41 PM

Problem is, I already have it set to download all models at once... since the beginning LOL.

Znurre · 11-22-2007, 04:19 PM

Try installing newer drivers

PacShady · 11-22-2007, 06:26 PM

I'm already running the latest nVidia drivers on both systems

Something tells me this is gonna be a hard one...

NightTwix · 11-22-2007, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PacShady

Hey all

Got an issue with Regnum on my Kubuntu Gutsy system. For some reason, after a random amount of time playing, the playing area of the screen goes white (not white objects, actually white like my character suddenly walked into a blizzard). All the menus and such are still there, but I can't see my character or anything else in the world. The only way I can fix it is by quitting and restarting the game. It's happening on both my desktop and my laptop, which both use nVidia cards with 256MB graphics RAM. Not sure yet if the same problem happens on ATI cards, I'll find out soon enough though when it's set up on my girlfriends machine (also running Kubuntu Gutsy).

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I couldn't find anything in the forums, and Google is just confusing lately (lotsa random generated sites with keyword matches, lotsa foreign language sites, and about 3 normal English sites talking about the "white texture/object" problem which is different altogether).

'Shady

how much RAM does your system have?
Regnum can consume an awful lot amount of it and i could explain the behaviour with regnum not being able to allocate any more RAM.
also make sure you dont have other applications running that either consume lots of RAM themselves, use up lots of sockets (like bittorrent) or try to access the graphicscard directly (like other 3d games)

PacShady · 11-23-2007, 06:25 AM

On my laptop I've got 512MB, and my desktop 1GB. Both systems have 2GB swap space as well. Nothing else is running in the background really except for system daemons. I also have a graph at the top of my screen that shows memory consumption and CPU usage; CPU is around 100% while playing and so is memory, but there's still plenty of swap space, and from what I understand default Linux behaviour is to keep stuff cached in the RAM keeping it full.

Also, I don't know if it's related to RAM usage or not. This glitch can happen after 5 minutes of playing, or several hours. If it was RAM filling up wouldn't it be roughly the same amount of time before it happens, give or take a bit depending on the number of models processed in that time?

Also, I'd like to mention that the menus and such are still functional when this happens. I can even chat to people and let them know what's going on when it happens.

11-22-2007, 09:13 AM	#1
PacShady Pledge Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5	White screen problem Hey all Got an issue with Regnum on my Kubuntu Gutsy system. For some reason, after a random amount of time playing, the playing area of the screen goes white (not white objects, actually white like my character suddenly walked into a blizzard). All the menus and such are still there, but I can't see my character or anything else in the world. The only way I can fix it is by quitting and restarting the game. It's happening on both my desktop and my laptop, which both use nVidia cards with 256MB graphics RAM. Not sure yet if the same problem happens on ATI cards, I'll find out soon enough though when it's set up on my girlfriends machine (also running Kubuntu Gutsy). Has anyone else experienced this problem? I couldn't find anything in the forums, and Google is just confusing lately (lotsa random generated sites with keyword matches, lotsa foreign language sites, and about 3 normal English sites talking about the "white texture/object" problem which is different altogether). 'Shady

11-22-2007, 11:53 AM	#2
Znurre Marquis Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: RA Posts: 1,897	Have you tried "Download all resources at once" ? I don't know if this could help you, but it's worth a try. Enable it in "Options" in the launcher, and let it download everything. It will take a while. Good luck __________________ Winning a fight is not what makes you a good player, it's how you do it. http://home.znur.re/screenshot%20201...2011_39_37.jpg

11-22-2007, 04:19 PM	#6
Znurre Marquis Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: RA Posts: 1,897	Try installing newer drivers __________________ Winning a fight is not what makes you a good player, it's how you do it. http://home.znur.re/screenshot%20201...2011_39_37.jpg

11-22-2007, 12:40 PM	#4
Angelwinged_Devil Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Under your skin Posts: 1337 Posts: 2,490	what happened to the black screen? Anyway it's happening because the game is downloading the models and such, as it's already been suggested you can avoid it by download all resources at once, it'll download all these models/textures and put em' on your hard drive.

11-22-2007, 03:41 PM	#5
PacShady Pledge Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5	Problem is, I already have it set to download all models at once... since the beginning LOL.

11-22-2007, 06:26 PM	#7
PacShady Pledge Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5	I'm already running the latest nVidia drivers on both systems Something tells me this is gonna be a hard one...

11-23-2007, 06:25 AM	#9
PacShady Pledge Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5	On my laptop I've got 512MB, and my desktop 1GB. Both systems have 2GB swap space as well. Nothing else is running in the background really except for system daemons. I also have a graph at the top of my screen that shows memory consumption and CPU usage; CPU is around 100% while playing and so is memory, but there's still plenty of swap space, and from what I understand default Linux behaviour is to keep stuff cached in the RAM keeping it full. Also, I don't know if it's related to RAM usage or not. This glitch can happen after 5 minutes of playing, or several hours. If it was RAM filling up wouldn't it be roughly the same amount of time before it happens, give or take a bit depending on the number of models processed in that time? Also, I'd like to mention that the menus and such are still functional when this happens. I can even chat to people and let them know what's going on when it happens.