Author Topic: Micro-freezes/game pauses (Read 1392 times)

Schatzi · « **on:** November 20, 2005, 05:04:23 AM »

Since patch 2.06.0 every time i transmit over radio (range or tunable) and *end* the transmission, my game pauses for the fracture of a second. Same sometimes when deploying gear/flaps.

First i thought it might be graphics, but reducing tex to 256, and reduce graphic settings to default didnt help (my GC should easily stomach those settings). Also tried updating my sound card driver.

I have a film of that happening. Ill send it in. What else info do you need Skuzzy?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2005, 07:47:27 AM »

What kind of sound card is it? Check for any interrupt (IRQ's) sharing between the sound card and other devices (Start->Porgrams->Accessories->System Tools->System Information).

Furball · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2005, 09:53:01 AM »

im so confused! i cant find porgrams!

The Fugitive · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2005, 11:01:43 AM »

HT is teaching him to spell

Schatzi · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2005, 11:48:47 AM »

There was a SATARaid contoller on that same IRQ, that should have done nothing anyway.
Swiched it off in BIOS, problem persists.

Any other ideas?

Heres the DxDiag:

Schatzi · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2005, 07:21:48 AM »

Schatzi · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2005, 07:12:46 AM »

Skuzzy, i still have those probs.

While it doesnt make the game unplayable, it *is* very annoying....

Ohio43 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2005, 07:24:43 AM »

Sounds like your sound card is hogging resources. Did you try turning the sound acceleration down?

straffo · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2005, 07:41:46 AM »

I see it's a A7N8X-E it had onboard sound controller ?

If yes try to use it instead of the SB live.

guttboy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2005, 10:23:33 AM »

Spoke with Skuzzy today on the phone....

He stated that in order for the game to run smoothly you need to have below 400M used in your memory when flying the game. You can do that by disabling skins, reducing your texture size to 512 or lower.

I have tried this and so far the microfreezes are minimized....still there occassionally but vastly reduced.

I also tried the deletion and reinstallation of the game as well as reducing the sound accelleration.

He stated that the new version has over 40 more skins and the resource requirements have gone up.

Dont know if that helps you but its a shot!

Regards,

Mike

Skuzzy · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2005, 12:18:16 PM »

Guttboy, that 400M had to do with your system having 512MB of RAM.

Schatzi · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2005, 12:49:52 PM »

Ohio, i have sound accel to 3/4 (as recommended by Skuzzy), but even changing it down to no accel didnt help with the pauses.

Straffo, ill try that as soon as Schutts home and tells me how to do that.

Guttboy, as stated in my earlier post, i ran the game at minimum graphic properties (including textures, details etc, the only thing i didnt try was reducing screen resolution to 800x600). I dont think it has anything to do with graphics... im not talking about microfreezes that happen while flying.... These 'pauses' happen (and *only* happen) when i release the voice transmission button (tunable or range). No matter how many polygons or other planes are in the vincinity. Otherwise my game is running smoothly and stable at 75 FPS.

guttboy · « **Reply #12 on:** November 23, 2005, 03:29:27 PM »

CC Skuzzy.....

Schatzi didnt know it was totally vox related sorry....

Skuzzy I did load textures in vid mem and it has fixed the problem for me. I did go ahead and order another gig of ram as well...LOL!

Schatzi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 23, 2005, 04:12:01 PM »

Dont worry guttboy, thanks for trying to help. I didnt want to sound ungrateful.... im just very frustrated right now

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Straffo, tried the onboard sound controller. Its even worse. Thats why we put that soundcard in in the first place.

AARRGGHH!

straffo · « **Reply #14 on:** November 23, 2005, 04:29:56 PM »

Strange because I've a A7N8X as motherboard ,almost same chipset as your motherboard albeit older and I never had any sound trouble !
And I'm using the Soundstorm APU not any card like SB live.