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Offline TalonX

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Video card memory bleed
« on: June 21, 2004, 08:59:09 AM »
Several in my squad have noticed that the memory card useage increases slowly with time.   It starts around 50 Meg and increases slowly (over 1 hour or two) to something around 90 Megs.  (This is on 128 Meg cards).   Once the memory useage gets above 90, we have seen CTD's, loss of text buffer, gunsight turning to a white box, tower glitches, etc.

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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2004, 09:01:04 AM »
I meant to say the video card memory increases....not the memory card...
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2004, 09:15:59 AM »
I have found the exact same thing while flying last night.

Mem avail was like 91.3 and Mem used was 91. At this point, the text buffer went blank and my HUD gunsight was completely white. Shortly after that I CTDed.

My card also has 128 Meg onboard. I am not seeing the same Memory used now in AH II as I did in AH II Beta. Beta was using in the 120Meg range.
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Offline Flit

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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2004, 10:03:14 AM »
I ctd 3 times last nite also, but did not noticed the memory thing. I'll keep a eye on it next time
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Offline Flit

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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2004, 12:04:46 PM »
Memory definitly goes away the longer you play
also manned ack at ports seems to be very tough when manned (1k egg dead on, got killed by manned ack on egress)
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Offline scott123

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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2004, 12:20:13 PM »
Ditto,all of the above!
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Offline mipoikel

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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2004, 12:22:08 PM »
Thats what happened to me. Screen freezed and had to reset whole computer. Vid mem showed 121.4mb, used 90.3.

Im using radeon 9600 pro 128mb
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2004, 02:24:07 PM »
I will confirm similar... though I have 256 meg of video memory and wasn't anywhere near that... my text buffer disappeared... and when I landed and headed to a field... CTD. One of the only CTD I've had with AHII.
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Offline Scot

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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2004, 02:26:57 PM »
I played solid with 113 of 123 on my ATI 9700 pro  Cat 4.6s. Never say an increase in usage before my crashes ( 3 last night ).
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Offline wrag

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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2004, 04:02:38 PM »
Possible sound issue?

Was having sound loop lockups, CTD's, Connection loss, etc.  Saw in another thread reports of possible sound issue's using non stock AHII sounds.  Something about 8 bit vs 16 bit.

Tried putting all non AHII sound files in a backup file and using only AHII sounds from install.

No problems whatsoever (err well gotta talk with Skuzzy about my connect and possible packet loss issues maybe) for a little over 2 hours online.  Will continue oline later but so far, at least for me, it's starting to look like a sound issue in AHII.
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2004, 05:00:31 PM »
Actually Im finding the longer I play the better, more smooth its running.

Weird huh
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2004, 05:24:03 PM »
hmmm Would I be correct in guessing you are all using ATI cards?

seems to be the common thread
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Offline sickbird

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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2004, 08:58:20 AM »
I am --- Radeon 9800.  One of my squaddies is also experiencing the same memory leak, but he does not have ATI (can't remember what he has).
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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2004, 09:25:25 AM »
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Actually Im finding the longer I play the better, more smooth its running.

Weird huh


Ok revision here.
As of the patch I downloaded around 9:00 pm last night EST
I too am experiancing memory bleed. though very very very slowly
went from 77.2M used to 84.9 in a little over 3 hours.

add to that Framerates have again become wildly unstable dropping as low as 21fps and staying in the 20's for quite sometime before shooting back up to 55-79 then back down again. Now getting framerates that run from 21 fps to 79 fps.
Doesnt seem to be any ryme or reason for the jumps as often nothing changes a whole lot either visually or audably.
and seems to jump around reguardless of what im doing. Be it in a furball or alone.

Whatever ya fixed..unfix it please LOL
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« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2004, 09:38:31 AM »
man, mines pegged 122 avail/122 used. (fluctuates from 117-122 mem available)

But I'm not really having any CTD issues / crashes right now.

HT said I should drop the memory down to 512, but I'm being stubborn and still using 1024.

I dropped my screen resoultion down to 1028x1024(that correct?)
from 1600x1200. Now im hitting at steady 75 FR in the air with low 50s on the ground. I was getting between 28-60 in 1600x1200.
I found out though that it's not my video card holding me back, my monitor only supports 60hz at 1600x1200. So, Now im looking for a new monitor...wondering why my eyes hurt after staring at it so long... evidently, 85hz is a new standard for large resoultions.

ATI 9500 128mb
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