
Happy New Year, I Hate You
#13341 posted by
czg on 2008/01/01 01:21:30
die

Hardware Question
#13343 posted by
necros on 2008/01/01 01:57:45
do any of you guys know what (besides bad memory or busted HDDs) can cause seemingly random lockups (no STOP screen, no restart, just the sound loops and nothing responds)?
nothing appears in the event log so i can't track it down, and i've done a memory test with memtest86 and checked all my disks and nothing has turned up.

Spirit
#13344 posted by
SleepwalkR on 2008/01/01 02:28:57
Thanks, but purely for my own education, I'll implement the SDL parts from scratch. Maybe I'll look at other ports afterwards to optimize things.

I've Had That A Lot Recently, Necros
#13345 posted by
HeadThump on 2008/01/01 03:11:44
the last time, it turned out my BIOS was corrupted, I would recommend checking with the manufacturer (visit to the website should suffice, if its the case). I discovered the BIOS that came stock on my system was one that was outdated and never intended for my rig.

Necros
Apart from bad memory, the other most likely cause of seemingly random crashes and stuff is probably the power supply.
Have you recently added any hardware? Is this a new machine, or just a new problem on an old machine?

Vote For Your Favorite Quake Singleplayer Release In 2007
#13348 posted by
Spirit on 2008/01/01 15:56:33

A Happy New Year To You All
#13349 posted by
ijed on 2008/01/01 17:10:40
And god bless us, every one.
#13351 posted by
necros on 2008/01/01 18:16:40
it's a new problem with an old machine. my psu is new though, 620 watt.
i was talking to some other guys and they were saying it could maybe be a driver problem. is there a way to track drivers in use to somehow see if one is causing problems?

Necros My Dear
#13353 posted by
czg on 2008/01/01 21:27:00
I had constant hangups and deadlocks like you describe plus some random BSODs. I got a random tip to check out what voltage settings my RAM preferred, and found out that it didn't like being run on the default voltage and liked it a bit stronger. I turned it up and haven't had a problem since.
- Anecdote.

Czg
#13354 posted by
bal on 2008/01/01 23:38:28
Interesting, I have the same problems, how did you find what voltage settings your RAM prefers?
#13355 posted by
Trinca on 2008/01/02 00:58:29
Czg and Bal
put your tongue on it!!!
#13356 posted by
Trinca on 2008/01/02 00:59:14
if burn it... is ok if not put more voltage...

My Horribly Dated Deathmatch Articles Are Back
#13357 posted by
Lunaran on 2008/01/02 08:49:43
again.
http://www.lunaran.com/page.php?id=9
more anachronistic than useful at this point.
#13358 posted by
inertia on 2008/01/02 10:28:52
Since Quake2 gameplay doesn't employ much strategy, weapon choice is not a heavy issue, and the weapons don't demand much in the way of it anyway. -Lunaran, ca. 2000 C.E.

Happy New Year
#13359 posted by
than on 2008/01/03 02:53:53
bit late, but I don't care. czg is a cunt.

Beep
#13360 posted by
Spirit on 2008/01/03 10:33:59
Distrans, I sent you a mail in mid december to the usual address. Did you not receive it?

Ya...
#13361 posted by dis can't login from CyberCafe on 2008/01/03 11:47:27
...I got it, but cannot access that account any longer. There's actually only 3DM levels, the fourth is there purely so 'demo1' will run. I will get a proper archive together with a proper readme. Apologies, I'll try not to delay to much more.

Distrans
#13363 posted by
Spirit on 2008/01/03 20:04:40
No hurry, it was just a "somewhen in the future"-todo.
Anyone bored can have fun with
http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/e1m3u.zip
e1m3 upside down... Eh.

Inertia
#13364 posted by
Lunaran on 2008/01/04 03:17:33
that's the reason for the gameplay in lun3dm1. just grab any gun and start moving! which, really, is what quake3 wanted you to do.
in my defense I wasn't at all into watching pro demos or anything like that back then. I know now that the chaingun ruled all in that game.