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Offline Tilt

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terrain shifting
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:30:53 PM »


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Objects seem to be in the right places but the visual aspect of the terrain moves around. Here the hill seems to beover the field..actually its soft and I flew thru it to land.

http://www.btinternet.com/~fulltilt/AH/DxDiag.txt

I had a lockup about a month ago with parts of the terrain triangulating. I had another to night. So I cleaned up and defragged the hard drive. Which resulted in me being able to fly with this condition gradually worsening.

1024 graphics, sliders fully up (condition persisted after backing off sliders to 75%) 1920 screen res.
« Last Edit: December 16, 2010, 04:33:34 PM by Tilt »
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 05:28:13 PM »
Its related to OOM errors. I have had the same thing happen before. A reboot fixed it for me.
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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2010, 02:32:29 AM »
wow tilt you have actually turned the world upside down  :lol

Have you done anything with your graphics card drivers recently?  Could be hardware starting to fail.
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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2010, 12:25:42 PM »
Its related to OOM errors. I have had the same thing happen before. A reboot fixed it for me.

Ok it is now a regular occurance. However a reboot does clear it and it occurs much more quickly in game if the PC has been in use for some time prior to starting AH.

Obviously I could start rebooting every time I want to load AH. But IMO this is addressing symptoms rather than faults.

If it is OOM what are the possible causes. Could something (new) be inducing memory consumpton? How could I check for this?

Does memory get old? Main RAM is over 3 years old now. Graphics are about 18 months. Would upgrading to 4gig RAM help wit this problem?
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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2010, 12:54:30 PM »
Heat mixed with video RAM on its way to failure could cause what you are seeing.
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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2010, 01:14:56 PM »
Just gave it a "spring clean" there was a lot of dust clogging things up.......
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Re: terrain shifting
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2010, 03:37:40 PM »
Yes that sure looks like a heat problem. make sure your fans are all working
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