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Adrenath

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 7

Freezing when playing any game.

Hiya, New here hoping to get some help.
Anyways, My problem is simple, I dont freeze if I just use the internet or check emails or anything but if I play any game like WoW or Urban terror, any where between 30 minutes to several hours I'll hard freeze and I cant even close X afaik, and I have to hit the reset button, I dont know what the problem is, any ideas?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

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Re: Freezing when playing any game.

Is it temperature related? Try increasing ventilation and cooling temporarily and see if things get better. I know I've seen this as well, doesn't bother me much though since its not often.

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Dheart

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Re: Freezing when playing any game.

If you're using intel graphic card this is completely normal... Intel is famous for their hardlocks...

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Adrenath

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 7

Re: Freezing when playing any game.

Unfortunately no intel, here I'll post some of my specs.
amd athlon xp 2600(Im not sure of the exact number, Its either over or underclocked and Im not sure which, my Uncle set this stuff up for me, and I only know what I know now cause I fiddle around with it so much)
nvidia 7600 go
1gb ram(2x512 sticks I think)

Anyways, yeah its only when I play games(Only two I play is urban terror and World of Warcraft), If I leave it with just WMII open(Like I did last night) It never freezes afaik,  Next time I freeze Im going to try waiting a few minutes to see if it fixes it self.

eviltoaster

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Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 17

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Re: Freezing when playing any game.

i installed warcraft 3 roc + tft and updated everything and everything is good for 30 min or something like that then everything freeze and i need to hit the reset button too.

so i dont think it is something with the temp more like wine or nvidia and wine.

i use GeForce 6600 GT

[eviltoaster:~] cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version 
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  185.18.36  Fri Aug 14 17:18:04 PDT 2009
GCC version:  gcc-Version 4.4.1 (GCC)

is there any log file for things like this?

EDIT 1
never used nvclock before but it worked with the -T argument as i needed.

and the output from my script was something like this.

TEST 1 - WINE + WC3 TFT + Battle-net / Singel...
11/12/09-21:04:37 => GPU temperature: 49C
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11/12/09-21:21:00 => GPU temperature: 53C
11/12/09-21:21:05 => GPU temperature: 53C

http://www.file-pasta.com/file/gpu_temp.log

So there must be another problem

Last edited by eviltoaster (2009-11-12 20:59:36)

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Adrenath

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 7

Re: Freezing when playing any game.

I dont think its wine, anyways I can also confirm its not the CPU or GPU temps, my temps were just about the same, and my CPU temp was pretty low as well, anyways, I crash while playing Lugaru as well.
I tried disabling compositing in my Xorg.conf on a hunch but meh, it seemed to help but I just crashed again so yeah.

eviltoaster

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Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 17

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Re: Freezing when playing any game.

I dont think its wine, anyways I can also confirm its not the CPU or GPU temps, my temps were just about the same, and my CPU temp was pretty low as well, anyways, I crash while playing Lugaru as well.
I tried disabling compositing in my Xorg.conf on a hunch but meh, it seemed to help but I just crashed again so yeah.

which graphic card do you use?
and drivers?

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newbster

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Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 9

Re: Freezing when playing any game.

I have the same problem. However, in my case at least, I noticed it's not always a complete freeze of the sistem. Sometimes I can switch to another console and kill the game I'm playing (or wine) and get my desktop working again normally. Sometimes it freezes for a couple of seconds, but then it starts working again

I'm using a nvidia geforce gtx280 with nvidia driver version 190.42 and xserver version 1.7.1.901. Here is my uname -a:

2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Hope this helps, and sorry for my bad english.

Adrenath

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 7

Re: Freezing when playing any game.

nvidia 7600 gs(Was off a letter I suppose, go = laptop versions)
Anyways, I just got new drivers that work with the new X version(I use the 96xx cause I cant manage to get anything else to work with this card for some reason, I might fool with that later cause after my reading it sounds wrong) Going to see if this solves the problem, hopefully it does for me.

Edit:Updated to just regular nvidia drivers, working fine so far, going to try some games out, I'll report back in a day or two.

Last edited by Adrenath (2009-11-14 22:16:03)