CRASHAGE!!!!

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:40 am

Hi, yeah, fun new problem after playing this game for almost 2 years,

For some reason, It has been just radomly crashing and the title screen refuses to show, in fact, the only way to get the game to run properly is if I hit alt tab, im running on Xp. Ive never had this problem untill now.

It maybe because I installed Omega Drivers to over clock my card.but if anyone can figure out how to keep it from crashing the game, that would be marvelous. I also recently downloaded Steam from Valve. So if anyone can help me out it would be much appreciated.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:53 am

Ive also just started to experience problems

1) my alt-tab no longer functions
2) at random points during play my HDD starts accessing for some unknown reason and causes my screen to jump or freeze for about 30 seconds then the access stops

I never had these problems before, whats going on

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:13 pm

DrJoe:
You already suspect it could be caused by the Omega drivers ( whatever that is... ). I'd try installing normal, stable drivers again. All kinds of things can go wrong if you OC, every application has a unique access pattern. Even though Doom 3 and HL2 run fine, AA may have problems. ( you did not write whether you actually OC when playing AA, but the same is true for unofficial drivers. They only get testing for really popular programs. )

Steam, however, should not interfere. You can test that by closing the steam client before running AA, it should not change your problems.

Iceman: When did these problems start? Did you install a new version of AA or a new OS? AA normally does not access your hard drive during play ( when you don't hit r or make a screenshot ). It may be swapping activity. Can you see how much memory AA consumes when you get the HD access problem?

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:51 pm

i dont use AA i use 0.2.6.0 and nothing has been changed on system

problems seem to have started about a week ago no idea why, re-installing the game didnt help either

its nothing to do with hitting screen grab or reload so I have no idea what is going on

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:36 pm

Perhaps a virus scanner running in the background?

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:58 pm

DrJoeTr0n it's not Steam (although it shouldn't be on while playing Armagetron as it might take some (or a lot of) bandwidth etc.)

and thank you for making me aware of the HL2 demo, lovely stuff

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:42 pm

I fixed my problem, AA does not like me to have the card OC'd so it has to be put turned back down to normal settings. Thank you for your concerns guys and steam is only running for when I play HL2 demo, I cannot stand steam although it is an interesting concept. and besides, The card is only OC'd when I play HL2D, I don't have any way to cool it so I get about an 70 minutes before I have to consider turning it down due to the fact that the core and memory is dramatically risen.
(I need to buy a fan)
(N54, The hl2 demo is so awesome!, Especially since one of the funnest parts in the game is playable, Long live the Gravity Gun!)

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:12 am

DrJoeTr0n wrote:(N54, The hl2 demo is so awesome!, Especially since one of the funnest parts in the game is playable, Long live the Gravity Gun!)

Hear hear! i've heard something about a super-gravity gun too!

*confesses he painted a few walls white with the gravity gun just for fun*

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:58 am

Yeah, the super gravity gun you do not get untill the end of the REAL game, It is by far one of the funnest times ever in a video game. You can lift cars! and Pick up people! and Throw People, At People! FWEEE!!!!!

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:58 am

Ok back to topic, I just did some testing out, and it turns out, I only crash on swampland, and no where else......

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:19 pm

no virus or spyware on my system (unless like me you consider windows as being both) so I dont know whats causing it

maybe my HDD is about to explode (again)

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:12 pm

DrJoeTr0n wrote:Ok back to topic, I just did some testing out, and it turns out, I only crash on swampland, and no where else......

Even without overclocking your card/beta drivers/beta OS whatever? From what I hear, swapland was upgraded to CVS recently, I surely hope it has nothing to do with your problems. Hell is running on CVS, too, and I'll be starting a crappy CVS test server later today.

Iceman: depends. If your harddisk is really active ( I'm sure there is a tool somewhere that measures system activity and tells you that ) and not just spinning around ( reminds me: did you activate HD spindown? ) trying to fetch data, it should be ok.

Not that I have any clue about what is happening to you both...

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:34 pm

z-man wrote:crappy CVS test server later today.

ot: return of try & crash me?

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:02 pm

Actually, Swampland is still running 0.2.7, but we're going to start running it on cvs code soon.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:42 pm

Good. That means the crash is at most a sin of the past of my part and long forgiven by the gods.

Tank: Exactly:)