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« on: July 14, 2003, 02:38:18 pm »
Edit: For the compatibility tab, right click on the application file and goto properties then the compatibility tab.
Grrr I just sat here for about 75mins to see if it would \'just work\'. It didn\'t. I wrote out a big long list of what happened, but first things first...
v 0.2.010
Windows XP Pro
256mb RAM
850MHz Duron
GeForce2 32mb
I created my character and uploaded OK and then the game ran after loading for about 5mins. Now whenever I goto connect it gets to initialising world and...just...seems to do nothing. Today I decided to wait for about an hour to see what happens, as the PS website says it sould take up to 50mins to work. So here\'s the list of notes I took:
(Running Norton Anti-Virus, no firewall and)
11:45am GMT
Started PS and connect, Initialising World screen. HDD light goes crazy for a few minutes.
11:55
HDD has completely stopped and only flashes occasionally.
12:00
Got bored and put on Task Manager (I think people said don\'t use Alt+Tab, so next time I won\'t even do this).
It says psclient is not responding, and its mem usage is about 116mb and increasing at 200-300k per second.
12:07
mem usage reaches 160mb then drops to 110mb.
The Molecular Blue window goes completely white.
The Page file also decreased.
12:12
mem usage 163mb drops to 110mb. Can see a place on the MB window. (Dunno anything about the game yet, it was the same place I appeared when I first created my player). Could also see the chat window(no text though), two health(?) nars on top-right and a target window.
BTW the music from the initiasing screen still plays (and continues for the rest of the time I tried to connect)
12:17
mem usage goes down again and again to 82mb.
HUD icons appear and in the chat window it says \'no buddies\' or something.
12:25
mem usage goes haywire. MB window seems to refresh.
same at 12:34
12:35
can hear two musics playing. The initialising world music and what sounds like the in game music played very quietly. In game music seemed to start when the initialising music looped.
12:37
HDD light flashed
12:45
MB screen refreshed. In the chat window it says:
Ophidian shouts: hello
Does this mean I\'m in and the game is just lagging to 1 frame every 10mins? When I first created my character it slowed down but was still playable...
12:54
HDD goes mad for a sec. Got my hopes up but nothing happened.
12:57
Mem goes down again then goes up and down and settles at 75mb. Window goes back to white. I give up.
I hope someone finds this info at least a bit useful. I will try again later without Antivirus and without using Task Manager...