Snags

[jmccaul]

Anyone else experience moments when the game freezes/slows down momentarily, is this a function of the frame rate or a bug. My frame rate counter displays a normal rate when this happens, is it a momentry drop in FPS which the counter doesn't register.

[Yeager]

Yeah...especially the past week or so.  I call it "screen stutter".  It happens most when Icons get painted.  My hard drive gets accessed and the screens stutters.

I recently went to the 3rd option for highest res and changed my virual memory from automatic to manual, both minimum and maximum set at twice my ram.  I also defragged and made sure I had about a gig of free space available.  All these measures cleared up most of the stutter but I still get some.  Last, I made sure fastfind was disabled...hell, I deleted it a year ago  

Yeager

[This message has been edited by Yeager (edited 02-02-2000).]

[Pyro]

Any automatic virus checkers installed or anything along those lines?



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

"If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid."

[Lephturn]

I run my system completely clean Pyro, no auto-anything running in the background.  I see this stutter sometimes as well, and I believe it is related to the radio buffer.  Sometimes when the radio buffer scrolls a bunch, I get mini-freezes, although the FR counter stays at 40 or whatever.

I am thinking this may have something to do with the translucency of the radio buffer?

It seems to be a message buffer thing for me though.

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Lephturn
The Flying Pigs

[Lephturn]

Oh FYI, my system specs:

Celery 366@500 on an Abit BP6
64 Megs RAM
Voodoo 3 2000
Quantum Fireball running on an ATA/66 controller.



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Lephturn
The Flying Pigs

[jmccaul]

I have norton anti-virus i assume it is not doing anything though as when ctrl-alt-del it isn't listed.  

[Pyro]

That could very well be doing it.  Does it show up in your task bar and do you have it set up to make automatic checks?



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

"If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid."

[jmccaul]

 Thanks for that Pyro i will disable it before playing and see if that helps  

[craigr]

I've experienced the same problem. More noticable in the last couple of days. Framerate counter doesn't move but 'stutter' is so bad it's unplayable. Not running any sort of virus checker or norton in the background tho.

[Lephturn]

I haven't noticed the stutter lately.

For those of you running Windows 98, you should check to see what your OS is loading up on startup.  You might be surprised what you find.

From the Start button choose Run, and in the text box type "msconfig" (without the quotes) and hit enter.  This little utility will quickly and easily let you see what is being run at startup, and let you enable or disable certain things in a simple manner.  Go to the Startup tab and look at what things are being run on startup.  I try to un-check everything I don't need, and I frequently find crap in here that has been installed without my knowledge.  To help your system run smoother, try un-checking things one at a time and re-boot.  If you cause a problem, simply go back to msconfig and check the box again to change it back.

I have mine down to 7 items.  Tweak UI, 3DFX Tools, and RAIN take up three, so I've got a pretty clean system at boot time.

Hope this is helpful.  Again, I haven't seen these freezes for a while, so it's possible something I disabled was causing them.  I don't use a virus scanner, but it could have been some of the other crap that was running.

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Lephturn
The Flying Pigs

[Minotaur]

I have had this happen to me once.  My frame rate went from a steady 40-50ist down to 5-10ish.

I run my system totally clean, only CTFJ and the required Win98 tasks running.

Mino

[blitz]

Hi all ,

know the stutter(gamefreeze)also. Mostly in the last week if i remember right.
Maybe 3-5 times.
Didn't watch the framecounter, cause it remembers me of the early EAW times when game freezes happened a lot to me due to weak cpu.
 

Win 95
AsusP2B + Celeron 400 o'cl 450Mhz
128MB RaM
Asus 3800 TNT2
Turtle Beach Montego 1 Soundc.
MS FF Pro

There are no programms running in the background (need every fps i can get to survive ;-)

blitz

[Bolter]

Is it from frequent disk accesing?  I am concerned that my cache is swapping all the time...I notice stutter with any modem activity while I play offline games (like playing Rogue Spear or EAW or WW2 Fighters while DL'ing the 2.75 patch last week).

Then I have stutter while online, to a point where as others say the game is unplayable--this is on a new AMD Athlon 600 Mhz Compaq with 128MB ram and a 30 Gig HD, on a "56K" modem...my connex is about 250-300 ping with 9 hops...I can't seem to tweak the connex any better than that (I'm with MSN).

The stuttering seems to be independent of my connex speed, and independent of the game played.  Reducing graphic detail (note I have a 16MB 3d card) seems to help the stutter, but this may be just a psychological thing on my part (a "placebo effect").  I never had this problem on my old computer...a 233MHZ Pentium with 64MB.

Any ideas?  I eliminated all running programs except for the necessary stuff.  Virus checker disabled too...

Thanks

Bolter

[TT]

 Mine doesnt stutter. it turns into a screen shot. I have to turn off the computer to get out of the game. Cant exit or anything else. I turn everything off before I play. It only happens once or twice a night.

[hblair]

Same story here. I get the occassional stutter too. I kill all programs running in the background too. I have had this for a long time, Maybe since the first version but I can't remember.

I don't hear any hard drive access either. I just always assumed I was the only joker having this happen.