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GauHelldragon

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33a: 10-20 second hangs
« on: November 01, 2007, 04:19:00 pm »
I'm running a fort in it's 5th year or so. I was getting about 10-15 fps in 33a, now I'm getting about 25-30 fps in 33b     :D . However, every so often.. about once every 5 or 10 minutes or so, the game will hang up for about 10 or 20 seconds. I have no idea what's doing it.      :confused: I'm in the middle of a siege now, but I don't know if that's what's causing it.

edit: the spikes are becoming more frequent and lasting longer, it's about every 3-5 minutes now, and they are seem to be taking 30-60 seconds.

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well the game seems to have locked up entirely now. :<

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FFLaguna

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2007, 04:53:00 pm »
Is your hard drive light solid on or at least flashing violently during the hangups? (It's the yellow light on your desktop tower or laptop that you sometimes notice flashes in response to you doing things on your computer.)
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Jaqie Fox

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2007, 05:05:00 pm »
Uhm...there is no 33b.  Do you mean you went from 32a to 33a?

Try saving and rebooting, Ive had similar problems with certain combinations of video cards and vid drivers that is cleared temporarily with a reboot (DF seems more heavily effected then other games but it effects all games some).  The problems seem worst with an nvidia 6000 series card and the 90 series drivers, but there may be more out there that do that.

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GauHelldragon

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2007, 05:05:00 pm »
nope. i reloaded my game, and it seems to not be hanging up this time.
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Toady One

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2007, 01:25:00 am »
Hrm.  That's unfortunate.  If it persisted in the save I could actually fix it.  Perhaps some other type of debris is building up.
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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2007, 01:29:00 am »
I have noticed slight freezes whenever something enters or leaves ( Unseen or otherwise ) the map i'm currently on. Is this what could be causing it?
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ctrlfrk

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2007, 04:09:00 am »
Im also getting these in the new ver. They only started happening when i set up a heap of machines... not sure if that is in any way related.
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GauHelldragon

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2007, 05:04:00 am »
After I reloaded from an eariler save, I've never had it happen again. I didn't do anything differently either.
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thvaz

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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2007, 06:13:00 am »
I reported the same in another save. It gets worse after some time.
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Re: 33a: 10-20 second hangs
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2007, 07:56:00 pm »
I have the same problem, more like 5-10 seconds freezups where I hear the hard drive working. Not that annoying, though, the game runs fast enough otherwise.

If I still get freezups on my next load I could send you the save, Toady.

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