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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: eilenbeb on October 23, 2007, 07:52:21 pm
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I was in the plaza yesterday, crashing continously. Every 30 secs to 2 mins, the client would crash out or hard-lock.
My screen and mouse (and keys, in the chat window) were all seriously laggy. Very bad lag.
Oh, and my audio was glitching, too.
Now, this almost never happens to me. The grass in the plaza doesn't have much of an effect on my system (still don't like it though...) but i was sure that it wasn't grass related because:
i was still lagged and crashing when I was out of range of the grass.
A little bit of grass lag never delayed my chat text (what I type) for 1-2 seconds.
The grass never made me crash before. Crashes were random, not related to the plaza.
I did a /who for about 60 players online.
Ping times were fine, a little better than average for me.
So, i went into the PS directory looking for some kind of cached or temp data to clean out, and noticed the size of my chat log.
Now, this is interesting. i was playing a brand-new character, but my chat log was HUGE!
The first few pages were the norm, but as i scrolled down I found (500? 1000?) pages of garbage. Totaly scrambled, non-text garbage.
Natrually I wiped my chat log, and re-opened it to veryify it was clean.
When i restarted PS.... smooth and flawless. Played for hours.
Ideas?
The portion of psclient that writes out the chat log got stuck in a loop over some bad packet data?
Or maybe psclient was trying to find the 'last entry marker' in the chat log and was spending alll the CPU resources scanning garbage?
Dunno. Either one would do it, i think.
Anyways,
Win 2000 professional, no service packs or frameworks added, fresh/clean install
AMD Athalon64 FX-51 single processor
Nvidia NForce 250 chipset (standard, not the enhanced)
SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum sound card
SII 3512 SATARAID controller
Dual 10k-rpm SATA drives running striped, multipartitioned, PS is on a fat32 drive
Geforce 7800gs agp8x video
Realtek RTL8169/8110 Gigabit Ethernet
I had trouble getting into the bugtracker this morning, so here it is.
laters,
b
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Certainly something to investigate. Will have to check that out and see if that is a potential issue. Even if not related to lag still sounds like there is a problem there that needs to be addressed.
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Yes, it was late and i was tired... I should've saved that logfile for you guys...
If it happens to me again I most definitly save it.
Maybe someone else will find a bad log file for you? I woud be happy to test it on my system if you wish.
Just drop a post in the plaza and i'l find it.
laters,
b
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Sorry for asking but where did you find that chat log? I know that your using a PC and im using a Mac but i think i can figure it out if the files are in different places.
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if you run the client from the apps folder your logs are in your main hard drive. other os's have them in the ps folder but there is a bug in osx, a solution has been proposed but not yet accepted that i know of to fix this.
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Ok thanks for the info I hope they fix this soon
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i just search 'logs' in finder and it comes up with the 020 chat log (mac osx)
[edit] wow sorry just read Caarrie's post again and realized i had thought it said something different... :oops: (PS foruming while tired..)