Constant game freezes this morning. Game is unplayable

[Skuzzy]

Like I said before, getting 3% usage when the system should be at 0% can cause all manner of problems.  You have to find the bad application doing that and shut it down.

There is nothing we can do when we cannot count on resources being available when they should be.

[SilverZ06]

Like I said before, getting 3% usage when the system should be at 0% can cause all manner of problems.  You have to find the bad application doing that and shut it down.

There is nothing we can do when we cannot count on resources being available when they should be.

You're saying that 97% of free usage is not enough to run AH on an overclocked CPU running 4.6GHz? I just did the create a new settings folder again and it seems to be working again for a little while. I don't know what is corrupting the game.

[Skuzzy]

It is not about the amount of usage, it is about an application running when nothing should be running.  It is a bad application doing that and there is no way to know what resources are being impacted by it.

We have no control over being interrupted by bad applications in the Windows environment.

Files being corrupted usually means there is something interfering with normal file I/O operations.  Something, possibly, intercepting those operations and causing the corruption.

Normal Windows 7 machines have half the number of background processes running than your computer does.  I have no idea what has been installed on that computer outside the normal Windows background processes.  There is not way to accurately gauge the impact all those background processes can have.  All I know is this.  It is not normal, by a large margin and the impact that many processes can have is innumerable.

[SilverZ06]

So literally a minute after I posted I get a BSOD.  Even your forums aren't working right (sarcasm). Time to start shopping for parts for a new PC build. 

[Skuzzy]

Let me put this in perspective for you.  I have over 80 applications installed on my home personal computer and yet there are only 34 background processes running.

How in the world does your computer have 70 background processes running on it?

Buying another computer may not solve your problem if you are not aware of how all those background processes got installed in the first place.

[SilverZ06]

I built this computer in 2010 or 2011. A lot of applications have been installed over the last 7 years especially for school. MS office full suite, Photoshop, Lightroom, VS2010 for CObol, VS2013, Codeblocks, eclipse, netbeans, work PLC applications, etc etc. My computer has had over 70 processes running on it for years and I've never encountered this problem. Also no other program encounters this problem. Photo processing takes up a lot of resources and I don't have any issues. I agree with you that its definitely on my end I just don't understand how nothing else seems to suffer the way AH does. There is no way every single player is playing with a fresh install OS computer.

[Bizman]

It might just be that the other programs do their stuff so much slower that the issues don't occur. AH writes and rewrites data continuously during the game so a collision is much more potential than with for example Office or Photoshop. Why it hasn't happened earlier might be like the single straw breaking the camel's back. But all this is just educated guessing, it may be a ton of other things.

[TequilaChaser]

Silver, try going to

www.blackviper.com

He offers several different ways to set up and tweak Windows 7

Plus even offers an .exe file people can download to shutdown processes and services, if a person does not feel comfortable going in and cleaning up and tweaking their OS manually


Hope this helps

TC