Chugging Along

Middenrat · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: Chugging Along

My TMN game has been behaving a bit peculiar. Every 20secs or so its demands on the CPU increase by a factor of six or higher. This causes the framerate to drop to single figures, simulating network 'lag' - at least to the inexperienced. This diagnosis was easy to come by using the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del).
Once before this occurred, about 6months ago, and went back to normal without fuss or explanation after two or three days. I suspect the dead hand of Nadeo updating game files on the fly.
Next time you think you're in lag hell check it out closely Wink

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Spanky_McCoy · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:33 am Post subject:

Eh it was with great trepidation that I clicked on this thread. You see "chugging along" where I come from means well lets just say its what a man does when alone with the latest copy of razzle or big babes monthly Shocked

Other than that I have experienced the same thing, processor going ten to the dozen when I'm not even playing the game. The rest of the time it's just my cheap swine of a graphics card coughing like a consumption riddled coke addict Evil or Very Mad

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panza · Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 169 Location: wigan

thats similar wot i was getting yesterday

wasnt so bad on laps server but on rounds it was very bad

i noticed when i went side to side in my kart its response would drop and you feel like your playing in slow motion

i shouldnt keep getting this thou as i have a dual core and 8800 graphics and also 20 meg connection

when you fell off the track on rounds every1 was still flying and hesitating round

wierd

Dantski · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 463

Umm...I get this normally anyway as a result of an old computer that's been on it's last legs for about 3 years.

Every 30-45 mins the game will just freeze or lag to absolute death for 5-15 seconds.
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Tred · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

Dantski · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 463

We should get a 5 second headstart every race from now on Tred! Smile

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mad · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:08 am Post subject:

for months mine has been fine but suddenly its chugging like a good un too.

Its not every time.... which is even weirder. some days its perfect, others unracable.

not happy.

Tred · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

Middenrat · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

i've gone nuclear on this mofo...i mean mobo Wink

, format and reinstallWindows to try and reconcile a CPU irregularity which Gord made me aware of: Nadeo have recently optimised TMN for Dualcore Processors which might explain my unusually low tasking of that component - with an oldish motherboard self-upgraded to use an AMD 64 X2 3800 last year requiring a BIOS flash.
In the process i have found much newer drivers for my nforce 4 chipset and DEC '07 drivers for my GeForce7 GPUs. The performance hike is titanic, benching TMN on PC2 settings @256fps, up from 117fps which I was actually quite satisfied with Embarassed

. I credit the CPU otimiser with most of this improvement.
The problem now is stabilising the bugger as it tends to crash like a playboy racer Evil or Very Mad

PS soz bout missing new posts for the last 48 hours, this is far too real Crying or Very sad

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