Author Topic: Micro Freezes (Read 2807 times)

lada · « **Reply #15 on:** May 16, 2004, 06:48:24 AM »

last week were Saw complaining that AH1 is pretty laggy on his Z-80

Flossy · « **Reply #16 on:** May 16, 2004, 08:18:51 AM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
I'm not talking about *that* clutter Flossy

I'm talking about maps that have a lot of extra buildings in them (mostly CT maps). Not complaining... I know I need to upgrade, it will be done in August

Ah, see what you mean now that you've edited it!

Flossy · « **Reply #17 on:** May 16, 2004, 08:19:23 AM »

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Originally posted by lada
last week were Saw complaining that AH1 is pretty laggy on his Z-80

TDeacon · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2004, 08:51:30 AM »

I have been seeing micro-freezes when running the Beta 30 (and earlier) of AH2 offline. My system is fairly capable:

Dell Dimension 8300
Pentium 4 3GHz
256MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 XT
512 MB RAM
Windows XP
DirectX 9.0b

Joc · « **Reply #19 on:** May 16, 2004, 09:38:09 AM »

Same probs here,I got a gig of ram 2.2P4 Intel with a Creative 128Mb FX5200 Ultra card,other than the micro freezes I get good Fps,no other real problems.

nopoop · « **Reply #20 on:** May 16, 2004, 12:58:08 PM »

When I CAN get on ( see another thread ) it runs as smooth as glass. The preload of planes that was added a release or two ago took care of freezes I was having.

I have graphic details set to max except for ground detail that's backed off to about 2 miles. Running an average of 84fps out flying regardless of traffic, clutter, etc.

Epox INTEL865 EP-4PDA2+
800 FBS Hypertheading
INTEL P4/3.0GHz CPU
2 x 512MB PC 3200 Ram
Western Digital SATA 80gig hard drive
7200RPM 8MB buffer
Chaintech FX5900XT Nvidia card
DirectX 9.0B
Soundblaster 512
Misc DVD-RW, DVD, floppy
Antec Truepower 430watt power supply
XP Home

CH USB Fighter stick, Pro throttle, Pro pedals
AH2 Full slider graphics, all but ground detail (2 miles)
1024x768

Pyro · « **Reply #21 on:** May 16, 2004, 01:08:19 PM »

The preload of planes only covers the basic plane textures. That was done up front to alleviate a lot of the stutters that will happen when the texture cache is generated. There are still other textures from the terrain and custom skins that can generate a stutter the first time you encounter them. After that, you shouldn't have a problem.

Would the stutters seen here be consistent with coming across a new custom skin on another plane for the first time?

Mathman · « **Reply #22 on:** May 16, 2004, 01:33:18 PM »

Pyro,

The stutters you refer to I have experienced and they lessen in frequency the more I play.

The problem that I get are some stutters when I type. I don't remember noticing them in prior betas.

If needed, I can post my dxdiag.

Orig · « **Reply #23 on:** May 16, 2004, 02:35:45 PM »

I also see framerate hiccoughs with typing. I remember noticing back when I started doing H2H that typing really messes with the network status lines, host queue, etc, so maybe there's something goofy going on when typing in the text buffer.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #24 on:** May 16, 2004, 03:05:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Pyro
The preload of planes only covers the basic plane textures. That was done up front to alleviate a lot of the stutters that will happen when the texture cache is generated. There are still other textures from the terrain and custom skins that can generate a stutter the first time you encounter them. After that, you shouldn't have a problem.

Would the stutters seen here be consistent with coming across a new custom skin on another plane for the first time?

Could be - yesterday was my first time online with a large group - some of whom had obviously downloaded the skins.

Today the micro freezes were far less frequent though I had fiddled with the settings somewhat.

Will we experience the freezes you describe each time we log on or only the first time we come in range of a new skin?

Widewing · « **Reply #25 on:** May 16, 2004, 04:05:11 PM »

Same problem, albeit rather minor. Running ATI 9600XT with plenty of RAM.

Freeze ups last only a fraction of a second, does effect gunnery tho. Getting 60+ fps otherwise.

My regards,

Widewing

zmeg · « **Reply #26 on:** May 16, 2004, 04:16:04 PM »

I've found a workaround for microfreezes, but you need at least 768M of ram to do it.
Download Ramdisk XP and install it, create a 400M ramdrive and install AH2 in the ramdrive, textures will cache so fast you wont get a freezeup.

Soulyss · « **Reply #27 on:** May 16, 2004, 05:51:49 PM »

I would say that the stutters for me are consistent when encountering a new plane, yes. Today I experience quite a severe pause when I came across a formation of B17's. THe longer you play the less they seem to appear so I would guess it comes from the initial meeting of a "new" plane type.

Ecke-109- · « **Reply #28 on:** May 16, 2004, 06:35:12 PM »

I had them all the time today. For about 3 hours. If alone or in furball...no difference.

Ecke

FBM Matt · « **Reply #29 on:** May 16, 2004, 07:28:32 PM »

Same problem here. Usually when I flew near another plane.

Someone said that the micro freezes don't affect gunnery--well, they did for me. By the time it unfroze, the plane was out of my sights. If that's what we have to put up with, screw custom skins.

I also experienced the typing lag--especially if I held backspace to get rid of a string of text.