Brief Freezing During Play
mywaywardson
Join Date: 2012-03-05 Member: 148169Members
Join Date: 2012-03-05 Member: 148169Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Having Trouble Playing Due to This</div>When I play NS the screen will freeze every once in a while (usually when I get near something that has to be loaded like lots of enemy players or a new base), a second or two later it will unfreeze and I will be somewhere other than where I was at the time of the freeze (usually dead). It has a nasty habit of doing this when I get near an enemy making it very difficult to survive.
I am curious if this is server side or client side. As far as my computer:
AMD phenom 2 X4 920 2.8Ghz
Geforce GTX 260 (oldest thing in my computer)
4 GB Ram
NS2 is installed on an external HD with a somewhat slower transfer speed than internals.
My hardware has been able to handle everything thrown at it by modern games so if it is a hardware issue that would surprise me.
I am curious if this is server side or client side. As far as my computer:
AMD phenom 2 X4 920 2.8Ghz
Geforce GTX 260 (oldest thing in my computer)
4 GB Ram
NS2 is installed on an external HD with a somewhat slower transfer speed than internals.
My hardware has been able to handle everything thrown at it by modern games so if it is a hardware issue that would surprise me.
Comments
How much ram in your GTX 260? There are a couple versions, if you have the 1.8gb version i'd be surprised, even so with the 900mb version. Nevertheless, try turning down your resolution, and setting graphics to "Awful" and try again.
As an addendum, it does seem to ramp up the longer I play occurring more and more often the longer I stay in game.
Intel QX9650 (Quad Core Extreme edition 3ghz)
4gb Ram
Geforce 560 TI (1024mb vram).
The framerate is simply randomly choppy. I'll be getting what looks like well above 60fps, then when I actually get in a battle I get huge frame skipping (best way I can describe it) and usually I'm just dead when it comes back.
Basically it "freezes" for about 1 second or less. Sounds seem to continue as normal.
I've tried reducing video quality. Oddly enough, the "Ridiculously Awful" setting has WAY worse framerate than "High".
I do run at a highish resolution (1920x1080) but i've never had problems before this with other games.
This is not a finished game yet, so performance is still being worked on. If you have (like me) ~512Mb Video Ram, you're bound to run into trouble with loading areas. I have to play on ridiculously awful because of my 2Gb Ram and 512Mb Video Ram. Maybe Medium will work for you, as this is completely a material/props loading issue. It's not the resolution, it's the quality setting.