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Offline BBQ_Bob

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« on: August 28, 2004, 01:42:30 AM »
I just now put together a new machine with a ECS K7S5A mobo and a AMD 1.4 gig thunderbird series processor, using a PCI 64meg video card and currently have 256mb of SDRAM. The trouble is now when I am in the MA I get discoed after about 5-10 mins of flying time. My internet connection is cable, and I have tried changing some of the video settings with no luck. Any suggestions?
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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2004, 01:44:42 AM »
I just now put together a new machine with a ECS K7S5A mobo and a AMD 1.4 gig thunderbird series processor, using a PCI 64meg video card and currently have 256mb of SDRAM. The trouble is now when I am in the MA I get discoed after about 5-10 mins of flying time. My internet connection is cable, and I have tried changing some of the video settings with no luck. Any suggestions?
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2004, 01:47:49 AM »
when u say discod do you mean ur connection is kicking you off or do you get kicked to the desktop? If you get kicked to the desktop, it could be some sort of irq conflict, memory problem, or driver problem, and not an actual connection problem at all.

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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2004, 01:59:35 AM »
Thanks for the reply,
This is what happens, I will be flying and all of a sudden it will freeze up and you are right, I go to the desktop. All IRQ's seem to be normal and maybe I should mention that the memory is a single stick of 256 PC100. Now that you bring it up I am starting to think it just might be the memory. But I just wanted to see if anyone one else is having this problem.
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2004, 02:07:27 AM »
Do you own a Linksys router?  If so, you might want to check into a firmware upgrade from their website.  

http://www.linksys.com/download/firmware.asp

I had this problem last year.  I first noticed it in another game (Planetside) where it would actually dump me after 15 minutes.  In Aces High I wouldnt see any dumps, but I would lose UDP after exactly 15 minutes.  You could set your watch to it.
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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2004, 02:09:40 AM »
Thats a negative on the Linksys router, I have a Netgear router but the firmware upgrade sounds like a good start. I will check mine and see if it needs.
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Re: Disco sucks!
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2004, 03:04:57 AM »
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Originally posted by BBQ_Bob
I just now put together a new machine with a ECS K7S5A mobo and a AMD 1.4 gig thunderbird series processor, using a PCI 64meg video card and currently have 256mb of SDRAM. The trouble is now when I am in the MA I get discoed after about 5-10 mins of flying time. My internet connection is cable, and I have tried changing some of the video settings with no luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks Alot.
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pci video card... ouch

im running a powercolour 9550 256mb in mine with the boxed drivers and it runs great (preload textures into the video )
you did update the sound drivers correct ? and drop the sound excelleration down a notch ?

i wonder if its crossing irq's since the vc is in an pci slot instead of the mb's agp slot ???
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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2004, 11:32:18 AM »
Barring the obvious like a rough internet connection, viruses, heat issues, physical connections, powersupply and hardware conflicts, I'm thinking that this system is on the low end hardware wise for the game to run well.

I would turn every game setting possible down to its absolute minimum.

Try using the texture cache feature if you can.

Also need to check for updated drivers for graphics and sound and check to see if major hardware components are sharing IRQ's.

Do you disco at random or does it happen at about the same time ingame? Is there anything you are doing at the time of disco (firing, using the mic, flying in high congestion area, etc?) that is consistent?

All I can think of right now.
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2004, 12:59:49 PM »
blooz,

right now im im getting a 265mb mb  video card installed into my comp. its overclocked, so if it doesnt perform welll at 256 could i bring it down to 128? my proccessor is 1.1 ghz

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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2004, 02:41:45 PM »
Ace, using Crtl i to check Video memory used, see how much of that 256Mb is being used. If its near the top and all used, you can try 128, if you have some room to spare I'd leave it at 256.
Personally I have 256 sdram and a 64Mb video card. My video memory has room to spare but my system memory was almost all used. I tried turning off skins on other planes and I freed up some system memory.
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2004, 03:19:00 PM »
how do i turn it down fuze?

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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2004, 03:38:00 PM »
Overclocking isn't a good thing. It can cause trouble and do damage.
I would leave the card alone though for now to see how it performs.


In the video settings in game there is a window where you can reduce the texture size of the game graphics.

More than likely you won't be able to cache 512 textures to the vid RAM. If you can pre load textures to vid RAM at 256 and have room left over that should work. If not you'll have to reduce the textures down to 128 to make them fit and have room left for the vid card to work proper.

You'll just have to experiment a bit and see how things go. If you have troubles, we'll be here.
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« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2004, 04:38:10 PM »
sounds good blooz, so if i dont get fps at 256 i should turn it down to 128? where in game can i go to turn this down and where in windows can i turn it down?


never mind blooz i see where to go thanks man..

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« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2004, 08:12:37 PM »
wait is there a way on windows i can stop the overclocking of the video card?

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« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2004, 10:10:00 PM »
I use a utility called Powerstrip to OC my video card when I do. I also only OC it slightly, I don't push it until I get weird things happening on the screen. The BIOS would control OCing of the cpu itself, to my knowledge. Here's a link to where you can get that one.
http://www.download.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=powerstrip&tg=dl-2001
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