freezes

[dakhound]

of late I have been suffering from many freezes during the game. usually it freezes to the extent even ctrl-alt-del does not work and I have to manually reset my PC.

at first I thought it was a rare bug (happened once a week) that only happened when my screen got busy with lots of casters.

then it started happening when nothing or no-one was around

then I thought it might be the casting animation for heal, but again it happened everywhere without prompt, (tho it does seem to be more often with heal animation)

so before I blamed the game I downloaded all the latest drivers for direct X, graphics card, service pack etc etc etc and lo and behold it stil happened.

next up was checking my hardware and it seems I'm running well over the recommended spec and its seems HL2 and farcry can be run for hours on end with no trouble in near full setting (would be full if my monitor could do them resolutions :0 )

so that led me to the conclusion something must be conflicting withing the game

so I changed all the settings down to the lowest and even turned off the sound (grim I know) and it crashed even more often?

now I'm losing my patience and I got out of support "run ryzom restore" but that doesnt sort it either.

can anyone think of anything this may be as its gone from a once a week occurence to 5-8 times in 3 hours occurence

the game is currently near unplayable

btw no error logs etc to post as it just freezes dead

edit : and it happens in all lands

[sprite]

Does it just lock up and you have to restart, or does the screen go funky?

[dakhound]

Does it just lock up and you have to restart, or does the screen go funky?

complete lock up

nothing I do bar the good ol manual reset changes it

no alt-tabbing
no ctrl alt del

[dazman76]

I had something similar Dak, very recently. Complete lockups at random times, however it was affecting my PC full stop - in Ryzom, in HL2, and even on the desktop a couple of times. However, sometimes it was possible to run for hours with no lockups, and even Ryzom and HL2 were completely happy for a couple of 3-hour sessions.

Eventually, I got this down to a problem with my main hard drive - once I investigated further, I also found it was making the odd clicking noise, and spinning itself back up sometimes. Then my brain started working, I checked the windows logs, and sure enough - Drive 0 not ready for read.

Ryzom clinically and brutally hammers a hard disk when it's in full swing, much more than HL2 and most applications I have installed.

Maybe it's worth checking that out? Also (and I know you've found HL2 to be OK), try running something like memtest86 to check your memory - 9/10, hard lockups are caused by hardware faults - windows is still naff in many ways, but it's very very rare for software to lock the entire machine completely.

[micrix]

checked drive ?

Can you install a second version (rename Ryzom folder before to ryzom.old or so)
on a different drive ?

The "growing" failure points to hardware. First harddrive (especially the vritual memory file), then network card. Third gfx-board. At last soundcard.

Does the frezze occur early after starting or takes it its time ? Asking cause of thermal issues. Changed anything in BIOS last time ? AGP or RAM latency ?

Got a new virusscanner ? Use tools to display themp and fanspeed ? (Many of them hitting the I2C bus very hard. Using Everest i can not play Ryzom).

[dakhound]

checked drive ?

Can you install a second version (rename Ryzom folder before to ryzom.old or so)
on a different drive ? ).

nope dont have a second drive - not yet anyway

The "growing" failure points to hardware. First harddrive (especially the vritual memory file), then network card. Third gfx-board. At last soundcard.

could this be the case if I run many other resource heavy games without a slightest hitch?

Does the frezze occur early after starting or takes it its time ? Asking cause of thermal issues. Changed anything in BIOS last time ? AGP or RAM latency ?

not touched th BIOS recently, crashes are apparently random, sometimes after 5 mins of play sometimes after a few hours. (I currently have cleared the dust and got my case standing open with a nice breeze blowing on it)
dunno nothing bout AGP/Ram latency just a dumbass who never got into that side of things

Got a new virusscanner ? Use tools to display themp and fanspeed ? (Many of them hitting the I2C bus very hard. Using Everest i can not play Ryzom).

temp and fanspeed are recording as nothing out of the ordinary (one fo the first things checked) and I dont run a virus scanner while playing ryzom at all.

[micrix]

could this be the case if I run many other resource heavy games without a slightest hitch?

If the error on the harddrive is located where the Ryzomdata is located, yes.
I could be that your Ryzom files get corrupted more and more.

Have you tried the new feature of the client "check data". As i remember it does excatly what we want. Checking data integrity of Ryzom files.

But this is all best guess. Worst case i would try a second installation of Ryzom and make a test.

[tomimaci]

Try memtest86 mate. i had the same prob, but only in online games, no prob with Sims 2 and Mechwarrio Mercenaries . And the prob was my second memory slot was broken. Moved the memory to the third slot, no prob

[dakhound]

thanks

will try both when I get home from work