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Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 01:50:52 PM

everytime i try to log into the MA, i get a host lost connection for at least the first two tries.

anyone know what the prob is?

Title: lost host connection
Post by: Scaevola on January 15, 2005, 02:20:17 PM

I have the same problem when I have 1024 max texture size selected.

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 02:23:06 PM

it seems to happen irregardless of resolution.

hmmmm.

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 02:26:49 PM

should this be posted in the help and support section?

Title: lost host connection
Post by: eagl on January 15, 2005, 02:49:25 PM

If you have the option preload textures to memory or video memory selected, it can make it happen more often.  Try unchecking those options.

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 03:34:29 PM

shall do.  

thanks eagl.

:)

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 03:35:10 PM

but this will cause a hit to my FR wont it?

im only running a 32meg vcard

Title: lost host connection
Post by: eagl on January 15, 2005, 05:29:20 PM

It won't hurt framerate but it could potentially increase the little stutters when new plane textures are loaded.  Disabling custom skins might help there.

If you get a lot of stutters, try finding the pci latency tool mentioned in some other thread, and reduce the vid card pci latency from whatever it's at to 128 or 64.  That has helped some people because it reduces the wait time for everything else in your computer including (in many computers) the hard drive controller.  I'm using it and like others have reported, it let me run even 1024 textures without the huge stutters we used to see with the bigger texture sizes.

But again not preloading textures should not affect framerates.  Reduce the texture size if necessary and if you get stutters, try the pci latency tool.

edit - here is the pci latency tool.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 15, 2005, 07:00:07 PM

copyrog.

thanks again.

Title: lost host connection
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 16, 2005, 10:09:45 AM

Dunno if the settings can be the sole reason for this.

I've had my stuff set to preload for quite some time now and this same thing has been happening to me only for the last week

Title: lost host connection
Post by: john9001 on January 16, 2005, 11:44:37 AM

same as drediock, just started.

Title: lost host connection
Post by: JB88 on January 17, 2005, 07:27:35 AM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Dunno if the settings can be the sole reason for this.

I've had my stuff set to preload for quite some time now and this same thing has been happening to me only for the last week

a few weeks for me.  trying to figure out what has changed since it started happening.

did i change a setting somewhere?
could it be my new wireless network?
could it be my new swanky cologne?

turning off preload isnt helping.

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