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. 

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. 

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 I discovered the BIOS that came stock on my system was one that was outdated and never intended for my rig. 

btw 

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? 

http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=66 

And god bless us, every one. 

 

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? 

...shhh...*ouch 

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. 

Interesting, I have the same problems, how did you find what voltage settings your RAM prefers? 

Czg and Bal

put your tongue on it!!! 

if burn it... is ok if not put more voltage... 

again.

http://www.lunaran.com/page.php?id=9

more anachronistic than useful at this point. 

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. 

bit late, but I don't care. czg is a cunt. 

Distrans, I sent you a mail in mid december to the usual address. Did you not receive it? 

...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. 

Yet, compared to some of the fucks in the Rails community I�m like Jesus and Ghandi smashed together into an awesome gigantor kindness monster.

http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html?part2 

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. 

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. 

http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/e1m2u.zip 

to clarify (two guys already asked):

I just liked the words he used and found them very tf-y / func_y (!), but i couldn't stand quoting them without providing the source. Ignore the post itself (there's some other funny language in it, though). The drama itself is pretty boring. 

can someone point me to the definition of fuckton? ;)