Screen Freezes!!

[nbank1]

Now that I've found the IRQ's what do I look for. do you what to see all of them?

[SKurj]

sure

[nbank1]

IRQ 9 MDP3900 PCI Enumeratior
IRQ 9 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
"     9 IRQ Holder for PCI Interface
"    10 TBS Montego II PCI Audio
"    10 TBS Montego II Multifunction PCI Platform
"    10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
"    11 NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model64/Pro
"    11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
"    14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
      14 Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
      15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
      15Intel AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller

These are the ones tha show up under conflicts/sharing

[Skuzzy]

nbank,..we need the list of the allocated interrupts (IRQ's), not just the ones that show under conflicts/sharing.

If these are indeed under conflicts/sharing, then you have got a lot of work ahead for you.  It is amazing your computer will run at all.

[SKurj]

Only one thing to add Skuzzy....  

Sure these guys may have some room to improve their system performance BUT...  These lockups are hitting EVERYONE in the arena at some point...
Should a thousand customers jump through hoops to get the program running properly? or ... should HT work even more overtime +)

I am one of the lucky ones.. only 3-4 lockups/ctd's since 1.10 was released but there is defintely something wrong in AH codeland.  It can't be blamed on everyone's pc setup...


SKurj

[Skuzzy]

Oh,..I was not blaming a PC for the problems Skurj,...just working from the logical steps.  Check the hardware and so on.

You know the SBLive cannot share interrupts at all.  It will cause lockups if you have it share interrupts with another active device.

But, I am not rulling out anything,..just starting from some point and working it out.

[nbank1]

Interupts?

[nbank1]

And that is what it says I have there (see above). Wherre do I get starrted?

[SKurj]

we'd like to see all the interrupts nbank1 not just the ones with conflicts

You can get that info from Skuzzy's instructions.




Hey Skuzzy I appreciate that you are trying to help, we both do more than our fair share in those regards.  At the moment I am just concerned with the game, due to the fact that we had a lockup bug all the way through 1.09, (can't verify if its fixed) and now we are into 1.10 with lots more.

I would feel better if ALL of the current lockup bugs were squished b4 a new release(it can have its lockups so long as the old ones are gone+)...  That lockup bug was in 1.09 for months..  confidence shaken a little bit +)

Thankfully for myself lockups are rare, but i am a long time customer.  Its the newer players I don't want to see discouraged because of these issues and I'm sure we all agree there.

I'm sure ht is pluggin away at them, and as concerned about them as the rest of us.  I just hope he finds em fast.


SKurj

[Sox62]

I was getting lockups-screen freezes also.

I rolled my Nvidia drivers back to the 23.11 detonators,and it seems to have cured the problem.

Might work for you guys,it might not...it did for me though.

Good Luck.

[Red Tail 444]

We need video card details.
GF 2 MX

We need video driver versions
I don't know

We need CPU speed and memory sizes
P4 1.6, 255 MB RAM

We need to know all devices you have plugged in
 I have no USB plugins, only using analog controls, Ch pro throttle, Ch fighter stick f-16, Ch pedals

We need to know what operating system.
WinXP

We need to know what type of Internet connection.
Cable modem com21

We need to know if you are running a firewall
yes I am running a firewall, but I had these problems ever since 1.10, never had this problem until now

We need to know if you are using an external router
I don't know, but I doubt it

Gainsie

[SKurj]

Gainsie!!

go to nVidia.com and get the latest drivers for that card and pay attention to the number!!

what firewall?


SKurj

[AKIron]

One thing I have seen that causes lockups on some machines: AGP 4X. Most motherboards can be configured, I'd try 2/1X.