[thelionroars]

squirt, on 10 October 2013 - 10:07 AM, said:

I normally play the fallin-angels CTF server and I have heard others complaining there as well.

I have actually had small freezes of around a second or so on Fallin Angels, and other minor glitches. However I attributed this to this being the first server I've been on 4.2 with that many players (somewhere around 20 people or even more), or just that the server it's on is overloaded. Also, I'm connecting from overseas. I've had no problems otherwise, but my computer is somewhat beastly.

3770k, Z77, GTX680, Kubuntu-13.04-x86_64, xorg-edgers drivers.

[squirt]

thelionroars, on 10 October 2013 - 10:41 AM, said:

I have actually had small freezes of around a second or so on Fallin Angels, and other minor glitches. However I attributed this to this being the first server I've been on 4.2 with that many players (somewhere around 20 people or even more), or just that the server it's on is overloaded. Also, I'm connecting from overseas. I've had no problems otherwise, but my computer is somewhat beastly.

3770k, Z77, GTX680, Kubuntu-13.04-x86_64, xorg-edgers drivers.

Only thing is.... I have never had that problem playing there 4.1.1 server and you know how full that would get all the time before 4.2. 28 players playing was a regular occurence daily.

My ping is also fairly low on their servers... normally low 30 ping.

This post has been edited by squirt: 10 October 2013 - 10:58 AM

[thelionroars]

squirt, on 10 October 2013 - 10:54 AM, said:

Only thing is.... I have never had that problem playing there 4.1.1 server and you know how full that would get all the time before 4.2. 28 players playing was a regular occurence daily.

DragonHeart mentioned at the time that it was running on the same box as the 4.1.1 server, so perhaps it was just overloading (running both at the same time).

I have seen an overworked server on 4.1, which was on a by-the-slot provider and around the time BF3 came out. It was a little different, everything was 'wobbly' for a period of seconds or minutes.

Also worth mentioning I guess is the connection. Wireless connections are subject to contention and interference. I'm usually on a wired connection to the router, but I will still experience a skyrocketing ping and thin black bars if someone on the local network starts uploading anything.

None of this is to discount what other people are experiencing while playing, if you are getting different results on different clients then there is most likely something to that.

[wTf|beautifulNihilist]

Yeah, Fallin-Angels 4.2 seems to be doing this to everybody, unlike the "personal-freezes" I seem to get on some other servers.

edit:
to explain, on the fallin-angels 4.2 server Love and I would experience these freezes simultaneously, and she doesn't experience the freezes at all normally. On other servers I freeze alone.

This post has been edited by beautifulNihilist: 10 October 2013 - 09:12 PM

[FS Frankie V]

This is an issue that I've been looking into as well as tracking in general as to a possible issue directly relating to a possible performance issue to the current build and the only thing I've been able to come up with at this stage is it's a problem that is general in nature.

Just Google “video game micro freezing and stuttering”

Speculation mode on.

Where the issue seems to pop up with a fair amount of consistency as to patient zero was with the introduction of the Nvidia 5 series of video cards as well as some manufactures intentionally over clocking their boards to cheat specifications that are not compatible with the base Nvidia reference drivers.

This fact is creating what I'm assuming at the moment a bottle neck between the ability of the driver to keep up with the demands of the video card and at times the video card is forced to wait for the driver to catch up to the demand in the form of a freeze or stutter.

In Windows 7 this shows up as a OpenGL timing error that will crash any game that is not able to keep up, which is annoying, but you can force Windows 7 to ignore the error which you will then see as either a freeze or as a stutter in frame rates as the two requirements try to catch up with one another.

You can prove this to your self by once again using Google using the following search.

“factory overclocked video cards”

Personally I did have what would have been a freeze or a stutterer if I ignored the warnings Windows 7 was producing to try and fix what one would thing is a problem limited to just one game and my solution to the problem was to just take my “factory over clocked video card” and down clock it back to it's reference specifications.

So if anything give that a go and see if the problem goes away.

[wTf|beautifulNihilist]

Whatever it is, it's fixed in r00t's for me.
I have been on the |FA| server all day with r00t's with no freezes.
Last night I was on |DB|Clear's while Love was on the vanilla and we both had freezes a few times a minute.

[squirt]

beautifulNihilist, on 11 October 2013 - 01:11 AM, said:

Whatever it is, it's fixed in r00t's for me.
I have been on the |FA| server all day with r00t's with no freezes.
Last night I was on |DB|Clear's while Love was on the vanilla and we both had freezes a few times a minute.

What is "root's"? Is that another build of UrT? Where can I get it? This freezing is driving me CRAZY!

[Mod [dswp]JRandomNoob]

r00t’s build

[squirt]

I could not get r00t's build to work. I'm sure I am doing something wrong, but I could not log into auth server, and I could not see any servers (reloaded/refreshed) when trying to play online.

Sure would be nice if the base build of UrT would just not have the freeze problem.

This post has been edited by squirt: 12 October 2013 - 06:00 PM

[FS Frankie V]

squirt, on 12 October 2013 - 06:00 PM, said:

Sure would be nice if the base build of UrT would just not have the freeze problem.

It does not.

Freeze or stuttering is an external issue common to all games and can be caused by many things depending on individual PC configurations.

Example.

Your playing games on a laptop and your power settings is set to turn off the hard drive after X amount of time. If the HD shuts down as it's told to do any time HD access is required you will get a stutter or micro freeze as the HD spins up playing a game or not.