Game freezes in large battles (v.0.240)

[Thormac]

When entering larger battles (about 10+ vs 10+) game usually freezes within 5 minutes. On few occasions it took less than 5 seconds. Picture freezes but music is still audible. There can be occasional hoof step sounds. Alt-tab or crtl-alt-del don't do anythin but maybe distort the music. Reset is the only way out. Windows seems to be running ok in the backround. Sometimes there is a warning when framerate clearly begins to stutter. Going to menu by hitting esc seems to cool things down for awhile. I also noticed that the game uses 100% CPU when in battle all the time. Is that normal?

I tried to disable the graphics settings from the game menu and from the rgl_config.txt file, but it didn't help.

I can still play Far Cry or Rome:Total War ok for example and run 3dmark2001 looped 1600x1200res high detail tests for hours.

System (No OC):
1.4GHz Tbird
512 333DDR KVR
GeForce 3 64Mb
Windows 2000 Pro SP4
DX9.0c (dxdiag ok)
Detonators 44.03 (Newer drivers either gave me bsod or lovered 3dmark score significantly)

 

[armagan]

This kind of problem is very frustrating since I can't replicate it on my machine. I would be really thankful if you can work with me on this one. For starters, can you try running the game with the latest drivers and see if the problem persists?

I can still play Far Cry or Rome:Total War ok

Those games can't even approach the graphical glamour of Warrider.

 

[Thormac]

This kind of problem is very frustrating since I can't replicate it on my machine. I would be really thankful if you can work with me on this one. For starters, can you try running the game with the latest drivers and see if the problem persists?

Latest detonators or forceware are 66.93 which caused blue screen. Maybe installation just failed or something. I'll try them again and work my way down to older ones if they still don't work.

I can still play Far Cry or Rome:Total War ok

Those games can't even approach the graphical glamour of Warrider.

Damn. Too bad I can't see the difference due to my old system

 

[armagan]

Latest detonators or forceware are 66.93 which caused blue screen. Maybe installation just failed or something. I'll try them again and work my way down to older ones if they still don't work.

I'll be indebted.

 

[Thormac]

Sorry to pumb this up but the freezing wasn't due to warrider. I had/have somekind of hardware failure. Other games began to freeze too. I tried many drivers reinstalled windows but no result. Finally last friday I flashed bios reseted conf data from bios and reinstalled windows again and got warrider to work. I decided to play the whole weekend to see if it would freeze and managed to play my character to lvl 42

Anyway sorry for this post. I had just immediately before I first installed warrider played other games and they worked fine. I just presumed mý comp was ok.

In 110 gamedays I had only 3 errors. First was the already reported "bring back enemy as prisoner" bug which happened always when finishing the battle.

Second one was also reported. It was this:
http://img23.exs.cx/img23/2412/error7to.jpg
Although mine happened in the map battle, not in arena.

Third one was this:

File: d:armagancreaturesrglrglSkeleton.h
Line: 1268
Expression: (0.0f<=duration)&&(duration<=1000.0f)

don't know if it was already reported. Probably.

Well I'm off to play the v.2.50. Hope its little harder.

 

[armagan]

Hi Thormac,

It is a good think that you reported the problem, even though the problem was not with Warrider in this case. At the most, I'll end up adding more checks to the code, making it more robust. So it's beneficial to me anyway .

Those bugs have been fixed in Version 0.250 (I hope).