Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 410 from 2003/8/13
From: West Palm Beac...
Was able to quit my second Job... and found some time
to play with Warzone2100.
I had problems with lockups... but usually happened when
in the middle of a large fight... 10+ foreign units on
screen at a time. I could always tell when it was going
to happen as the sound would start to lag badly...then it
would freeze. Using Scout I was sometimes able to get
it to run if I kill the OpenAL process, but not always.
Last week something in my brain "clicked" and I decided to
take a different approach. Usually the program locked during
a battle when cpu usage was near its highest. I had already added
more stack... which seemed to help but wasnt enough.
this time I thought to lower the priority of the main warzone2100
process... Tada!!! Imediate difference... with the priority set
to -50 It would start to lag badly.. but would usually not lock.
so not 100% fix but better.
Today I loaded Warzone2100-2.0.8_RC1 from the cli ... under the new Morphos 2.2,
dropped the priority down to -20...
... And have yet to have a lockup... it doesn't even slowdown
anymore... I'm running an 11 hour uptime at the moment with no locks!!
After being crushed by my computer opponent no less then 10 times
Whatever You Guy's did with 2.2 it has made at least one app more
stable!! Thanks!!