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Offline Scherf

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Known Warper, Pt 2
« on: April 30, 2009, 11:46:57 PM »
Well, I killed off some processes, which was good, logged on, same old same old.



I get this constantly, non-stop.

I did check out the system requirements though - every time I start AH my CPU usage goes to 100%. Does it need that much memory or have I screwed up somewhere? Maybe it's writing to the hard drive the things it can't keep in memory?

(The 100% bits below are where I had AH running. Switched it off and CPU useage dropped down, started it up, back up we went)

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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 11:52:00 PM »
What are your computer specs?  They seem to be fairly old and limited.  You have a single core CPU and only 512mb of RAM.  I noticed u dropped about 20 processes, which is good.  Try and aim for the 30's.  Skuzzy recommends low 20's, but for every day use computers, may be a little much (or less that is).
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 07:04:12 AM »
I try to keep my processes between 20 - 25. On this system that keeps me pretty lean and clean.

Looks like your computer is going full out to run AH at all.

To really be sure you have a solid internet connect and its not your computer, you'd have to get and run ping plotter or Visual route. Basically software that sends packets to an address (can get main arena ip # from details in arena select screen) It keeps sending and receiving packets and builds up a graph showing what hops, what the ping and packet loss is for each hop.

There should be free trial versions of both out there, they both do basically the same thing.
Both should save to an output file that you can post in skuzzys internet connectivity forum.

And it will tell you if the problem is on your end, or some backbone or hop that you have no control over.



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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2009, 07:05:52 AM »
Aces High II should be using 100% of the CPU.  DirectX is configured by Microsoft to do that.  You should be worried if Aces High II is using less than 98% of the CPU.

Take a look in the "Processes" list to see how CPU percentage it shows "aceshigh.exe" is using.  It should be above 98%.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2009, 07:13:44 AM »
OK Skuzz, sorry for the mis-posting on the other part of the board.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 07:02:21 PM »
My only guess is this...

It's your Internet Connection, do you run on dial-up, cable, dsl, or satellite?
The last one is going to do exactly what I'm seeing in the SS's, high ping with a lot of ups and downs.

If you run on a land-line of some sort do you run a firewall?
It may be a virus or something thats bogging down your internet.

One of the easiest ways of testing to see if it's ping is to open CMD and type in this "ping www.hitechcreations.com" without the quotation marks. Anything over 300ms is going to give you "warping" issues. If your ping seems alright the next thing I would do is invest in a new firewall such as ESET's or Comodo to block any sort of incoming attacks or outgoing that may be bogging down your connection. If neither of the above work I'm not quite sure, it may be hardware then.

Comodo's Website http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/

ESET's Website http://www.eset.com/
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2009, 04:24:16 PM »
Thanks for the suggestion. Will run ping plotter and post here. It's just terribly strange and frustrating - I can't identify any pattern of events here that consistently influences the sawtooth one way or the other.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2009, 04:43:58 PM »
I have the same problem, but I don't have really any problem in the MA, more the DA and the SEA. I think it has to do with the ram of your system. I'm running 1GB of Ram, which I don't think is enough. I would put at lease 2 GB of ram in your system, and see if that reduces any of the warping.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2009, 06:10:53 AM »
Got the same symptoms on a core 2 duo CPU, but its a known issue. I may have found a workaround tho.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2009, 05:16:42 PM »
Quote from: Noir on May 03, 2009, 06:10:53 AM
Got the same symptoms on a core 2 duo CPU, but its a known issue. I may have found a workaround tho.

What is it?
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2009, 11:03:05 PM »
I have the same problem with a dual core AMD processor running Vista. I've cut every background process that is safe and still get warping. I just fly with it and listen to everyone whine.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2009, 07:33:35 AM »
RPM, you installed AH to a folder outside, "Program Files" right? For instance: C:\Games\HTC\Aces High II\

I can agree with Bosco on the RAM. A lot of the terrains in the SEA use custom objects which require more resources to display them. The majority of the time, the resources required to display these custom objects are either your video card memory or your system memory (RAM).
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2009, 10:33:04 PM »
Denholm - should AH be in the programs folder, or a separate (eg "Games") folder?
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2009, 12:52:36 AM »
Quote from: Denholm on May 06, 2009, 07:33:35 AM
RPM, you installed AH to a folder outside, "Program Files" right? For instance: C:\Games\HTC\Aces High II\

I can agree with Bosco on the RAM. A lot of the terrains in the SEA use custom objects which require more resources to display them. The majority of the time, the resources required to display these custom objects are either your video card memory or your system memory (RAM).
Yep. I've followed all the Vista and AMD workarounds.
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Re: Known Warper, Pt 2
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2009, 12:55:09 AM »
Skuzzy, correct me if i'm wrong but...

Didn't you tell me once that a saw tooth Net Status like in the OP means something (program) is firing off in the background?
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