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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Luddrigo on March 20, 2005, 12:28:49 am

Title: Linuxclient just keeps crashing. (Not the templeproblem)
Post by: Luddrigo on March 20, 2005, 12:28:49 am

Hello, I have a problem and I am not sure if it is my computer that is to blame or something else. My guess is the first alternative. ;)

Two days ago I got a new graphic card from a friend. It is exactly like the one I already got but this new card has 64MB DDR-RAM instead of SDRAM.  I now posess a Geforce4 MX440 64MB DDR-RAM. It is not a very good card I know, but it is good enough for me.

Anyway, I got the new card and installed two days ago. I played Planeshift right after I installed it. I didn\'t reinstall the nvidia-driver or anything. Everything worked fine and dandy.

Yesterday my game crashed when my character was on its way to the magic house. It just kept crashing for the rest of the day, so I gave up.

Today I reinstalled the game and all of a sudden I was able to login and my character was standing at the plazaa. I stood there for about 5 minutes (realtime minutes) and then the client crashed. Since then I can\'t login anymore. It just crash as soon as the blue progression bar at the loading screen gets full. I have no idea whats causing this.

Any suggestions?

I use the Linuxclient and updater from Karosh.

My computerspecs:
AMD Duron 1.2GHz dramatically ;) overclocked to 1.32GHz and I have tried to reset the overclock but it doesn\'t help.
256 MB RAM

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Post by: Tharizdun on March 20, 2005, 03:19:41 am

So if you switch back to your old card do things still crash? Is anything else playing up on your PC, processes segfaulting, kernel panics, boot process sometimes failing, lots of rude messages in the dmesg logs, etc ?

The question I\'m getting at is, what has changed between when it was playing fine, and when it was crashing ? You arent overclocking your PCI or AGP slots are you, that probably wouldnt go too well with video cards that are expecting a nice clean 33 or 66MHz bus signal..  

Your RAM is a little on the light side too, I would recommend trimming down your environment as much as possible if running with 256 MB. Like shutting down init.d processes that you dont need, switching to a lightweight window manager rather than Gnome or KDE with all the bells and whistles, and so on.

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Post by: Luddrigo on March 21, 2005, 02:29:36 pm

I switched cards yesterday but no luck at all.

I now run the system at standard speed with the AGP at 66MHz and the PCI at 33MHz but it still don\'t work.

The only thing I can think of that has changed since it last worked is something about glib and gtk+. I had some problem installing ethereal when the installer complained about not having a glib version greater than 2.0.0.

I use Slackware 10.0 so I install pretty much everything with Swaret, and my window manager is Xfce4 with xorg 6.8.2.

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Post by: Karosh_Steinkatz on March 21, 2005, 08:05:48 pm

Hmm, which versions of the kernel and nvidia driver do you use?

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Post by: Luddrigo on March 21, 2005, 08:34:11 pm

I have the 2.6.11 kernel and 1.0-7167 NVIDIA-driver patched with the cumulative patch NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-7167-03.11.2005.diff.txt mentioned in this thread on the nvnews forum:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47405

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Post by: Platyna on March 21, 2005, 08:47:32 pm

Same kernel driver is 1.0-6629 + cumulative patch from nvidia.com too.
See if the binary from: http://platyna.xpam.de/planeshift/ works.
If not, grab the loki installer from my site, install the fresh game, run the
updater then grab the psclient binary file, and put it in your planeshift
directory rename to psclient bin (overwrite psclient-bin file with the new
one). Considering the feedback I am getting from the people it should work ok.

Regards.

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Post by: Luddrigo on March 21, 2005, 08:58:39 pm

Thank you.

I will try it tomorrow when I am at my own computer again.  :]

EDIT:

After some testing and a lot of thinking my guess is the new NVIDIA driver. Platynas idea did not work, but when I reinstalled whith the Karosh-installer everything works fine. I really don\'t wan\'t to roll back to the 6629-drivers due to the much lower performance.

I reinstalled and logged in. But I only tried to login once but everything seemed to stay stable and the client didn\'t crash during the 10 minutes I tested.

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Post by: Platyna on March 23, 2005, 11:13:56 pm

Maybe a little offtopic but the problem is that X with 1.0-7167 crashes alot here.

Regards.

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Post by: Luddrigo on March 23, 2005, 11:24:13 pm

Yeah, I\'ve noticed.

It seems that Mozilla Firefox don\'t like the new driver at all and freezes up X completely.

But what the heck, I\'m just gonna sit tight and wait for a patch.  8)

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Post by: Platyna on March 23, 2005, 11:50:20 pm

Well, I have compiled magic sysrq, so I don\'t have to reboot the machine but anyway it is annoying.

Regards.