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Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Furball on August 14, 2005, 01:54:04 PM

upped 262, pressed alt r to record... game freezes and i disco :(

(i had anti virus disabled so that didnt interfere)

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: straffo on August 14, 2005, 01:59:58 PM

I'm allways amazed by the result I have with  a pin and a Voodoo puppet.
hé ! :)

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Furball on August 14, 2005, 02:28:39 PM

ROFL git :D    ,V,,

Just checked films... heres the film if anyone from HTC is interested.

http://furballunderground.com/blueknights_pictures/userfiles/Furball/disco.ahf

can i get my perkies back, running a bit short.. how bout a loanski? :D

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: NoBaddy on August 14, 2005, 02:47:50 PM

Had the same problem....cleaned out the film subdirectory and it went away.

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Skuzzy on August 15, 2005, 06:20:12 AM

NB has a good point.  The Windows file system (FAT32 in particular) can get rather ugly when too many files are in one folder (over 255, if I recall, but could be less).

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Furball on August 15, 2005, 12:41:51 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Skuzzy
NB has a good point.  The Windows file system (FAT32 in particular) can get rather ugly when too many files are in one folder (over 255, if I recall, but could be less).

will move em.... but i logged back in immediately after disco, pressed alt r and it was fine, i usually record all my sorties and never have a problem.

it was just sods law, or HT hates me, that it happened to be in a 262 when it messed up.  It does freeze for a few seconds if i leave NAV on and go to record usually, but i had it off this time and the freeze lasted a good 30 seconds!

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Flossy on August 16, 2005, 02:18:00 AM

This has happened to me in the past and it is definitely caused by the number of films in the films directory.  Usually, the first sign I get that the directory is getting full is a slight pause as the film starts...... this pause gets longer each time until eventually a disco happens (usually at the most inconvenient time, like the beginning of a bomb-run in a scenario! :D)  

Now I know that once the pauses start its time to clean out my films.  The pauses do only happen with the first film each session and disappear for subsequent films.  :)

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: FuBaR on August 24, 2005, 07:28:37 PM

the problem is too many films as NB said. Once I reach a certain ammount it does that to me as well.

Title: ALT-R made me disco
Post by: Schutt on August 25, 2005, 05:08:14 AM

The problem is not to many the problem is the exact, rather high number.

Filesystem stores its directory info in one block. When the block gets full it creats a new block to store the info in, allocating the second block and setting the links take time, ah does not run during that time and gets shot by its timetrap.

I dont know if the number is eaven fixed, might be the blocksize and filenames along with partition size matters.

I post that solely to explain why recording the 257th film works while the 256th one shoots you out.

Also, like skuzzy mentioned it depends on filesystem and other stuff.

As a suggestion, can ah2 at start up check how many files and free space are in film directory and warn/take actions if it senses a problem, maybe the people that get kicked out count how many files was the problem so you can pop up a message "200 files in film viewer directory, clear em out or you will have trouble recording".