Crashes now and then? Help!

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 5:24 am

All of a sudden my version of Mohaa is crashing now and then when playing MP... just reinstalled WinXP Home on my other machine and updated it with all the latest gfxcard drivers, Windows update and DirectX9...? Its start to annoy me because everytime we're having a match I need to reconnect maybe 2-3 times during the game...grrrr

Console says something about:

Com_EventLoop: bad event type 1359320

Does anyone know what this is?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:08 am

Its horrible of me to say but I'm glad someone else is having this problem

Sorry m0g.

My game used to run fine on a modem and all. Then I installed spearhead and I got broadband, since then my machine crashes right in the middle of the action, sometimes just the game more often my whole machine, I never made a logfile of the crash but I would bet its the same as m0g's, yeah 3-4 times crashing during a match sounds like mine.

Do you have spearhead installed m0g, if not then maybe our problems are not the same, I even bought another 256 ram thinking that might have been the problem, fast modem and 20 other players, that didnt work still got my problems.

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:50 am

Nah, I do own SH but haven't installed it yet... But i found out that because im having 1024 in RAM i needed to turn off the memory 'Paging File', it havent crashed so far!? Also on mohaa.exe: Right click > Prop. Compability > Win2000 made a bit more stable aswell?

Alcoholic · Post by **Alcoholic** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:51 am

whats the paging file do anyway? i heard its temporary hard drive memory thats used when your ram is full. i have 1536 ram, and i look in dxdiag, and it says xxx page file used? is that bad? should i disable the page file?

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:54 am

If you got alot of RAM then u dont need Pagin File! Its there if your pc needs more virtual memory when working with it, then it 'borrows' from the HD instead...
hope i made sence?

Alcoholic · Post by **Alcoholic** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:06 am

yeah but for example, i would just turn on the comp, and it says page file used.. how do i turn off page file?

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:10 am

1. Right click My Computer and press Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Press the Settings button under Performance
4. Select the the Advanced tab
5. Press the Change button under Virtual Memory
6. Select NO paging file and press the Set button and Yes, if prompted
7. Press OK, OK, and OK
8. Shutdown and restart your computer

Alcoholic · Post by **Alcoholic** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:13 am

and this should make the comp go faster, yes?

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:16 am

not really faster, but it wont use the HD for vitrual memory... u have enough of Ram for that!

Here's a link with a lot of nice tweaks for XP! might usefull...

http://www.tweakxp.com/

silversound · Post by **silversound** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:02 am

I know this may be WAY off the mark, but have you dissabled your Windows instant messenger during game play? I had massive pop ups from all the Windows instant messanger service spamming, then I dissabled it and no more game interuptions. Took me awhile to figure it out because Popup stoper program would kill the pop up, but not until after my game would crash.

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:15 am

MSN Messenger messed up my gaming on the pc i normally use, but that was fixed after installing the latest gfx drivers... but i always turn messenger + other off when playing now, no interuptions, no lag and no unwanted processes running in the back... give me maybe 12 more frags per map

Alcoholic · Post by **Alcoholic** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:24 am

as opposed to how many deaths?

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:21 am

a few hundred

nah but many... normally...