slowgame performance

[case-rigantis]

i still suffer from extreme slow down after 20 minutes plus of playing time and need to relog to clear it..rinse and repeat every 20 minutes
does anyone else have this problem? any suggestions?

i`m running winxp 890meg of sdram with geforce4600 (128meg)

so am alittledisapointed really that i can`t play longer than 20 minutes without the game becoming unplayable

any suggestions?

 

[VidX]

Sounds like a severe case of memory leak to me.

The drive your pagefile is on, how big is it, is it your system drive, and how much space is free?

This would be the only problem I can think of.

Oh, and on the topic of pagefiles and memory leaks... DAoC is not the king of memory leaks at the minute. Alt+tab'ed out of UT2k3 last night, and found that my pagefile was a little big.

The pagefile for my Games/LAN PC on a 640gig RAID array with over 370gig free... however that was reduced to a little over 45gig free last night. 7 hours solid of UT2k3 and the process was using 326.4gig! WTF?!?!?!?!?!?? :uhoh:

 

[case-rigantis]

yep it`s the systemdrive and has 30gig free on a 40 gig drive

any suggestions on resolving this issue?

 

[Dial-A-Rez]

Out of interest, do you maybe use an xDSL connection ? With a USB modem ?
What's your CPU ? AMD perhaps ?

You might well have a memory leak, but I'd guess you might have a voltage problem. The GeForce 4 cards (I have a 4200) suck a serious amount of juice from your PSU. If you read the manual carefully it should say something about a minimum 300W PSU.

Expansion cards, drives of all stripe (groan), AMD CPUs and mobos all suck up a lot of juice. USB based DSL modems are the worst offenders in this category, the Alcatel "frog" for example doesn't conform to the USB 1.x spec as it draws too much voltage from the host. In which case you need an external USB hub with its own power supply.

That GFX card is gonna need more oomph as well, depending on your machine spec I'd go for a 350W or 400W power plant.