Game frequently pauses for around 1 second during play.
ashw
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12831Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12831Members, Constellation
ran the profile command, results here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ashw/screenshots/
ran dxdiag, output here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4iorpzdglxx0mk/DxDiag.txt
I'm running in 1280x720 with all the graphics options low/off except multi threading.
I notice that when in the server browser, moving the mouse across the server list triggers a sound. running it across 5-10 does this rapidly and causes the background animation to stutter in a similar way. This makes me suspect a sound issue. I wanted to turn sound hardware accell off but it appears i'm out of date as this doesn't appear as an option in windows 7.
ran dxdiag, output here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4iorpzdglxx0mk/DxDiag.txt
I'm running in 1280x720 with all the graphics options low/off except multi threading.
I notice that when in the server browser, moving the mouse across the server list triggers a sound. running it across 5-10 does this rapidly and causes the background animation to stutter in a similar way. This makes me suspect a sound issue. I wanted to turn sound hardware accell off but it appears i'm out of date as this doesn't appear as an option in windows 7.
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But execute message hmmm...
Lets think weird.
* disable help messages
* cleanup any log files from ns2. (basicly: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2)
Do note this will reset a a lot if you delete it in total.
Have you tried closing every single program running in the background before launching ns2?
Would be useful to first see if anything is spiking during typical windows usage using task manager's performance tab.
*edit* : a developer said this looks like a network message, so you may wish to attempt temporarily disabling your firewall or something along those lines that could be interrupting your network traffic. (At your own risk)
I tried ending every process I could, turned off windows firewall and security essentials (I'd already made an exception to ns2.exe in any case)
No luck, the issue is still there
Looked in task manager when not gaming and the performance graph looks typical (close to flat).
edit: I haven't tried a wired network connection yet. will do so tomorrow.
To get to the log.txt file, press windows key + R, fill in "%appdata%\Natural Selection 2", hit enter.
edit: This is lies-> I disabled Raw Input from the controls menu and the issue where the background animation in the main menu stuttered stopped occuring and the ingame freezes significantly lessened.
edit: It was actually running in 800x600 that significantly reduced the stuttering, but it's still going on.
@MurphyIdiot no mods installed or running
@Ironhorse Will do so
Go download process explorer. Run this as a administrator.
When ns2 is having huge spikes, see if something not NS2 is eating up cpu power.
process monitor has a cpu graph in the top right corner to do this. Hover over a spike to see what was happening.
(fullscreen) windowed mode will work best with this test.
Seems you have a lot of resend packages, look at all the resends and unreliables in that log.
So you've tried wired and disabled firewall.. But have you tried connecting straight to your modem / DMZing your router too?
Looking over the info you've provided, there's definitely something weird going on network wise. So what's your network setup look like? Wireless? When wired, what models for router and modem? What isp? Etc
How quickly is this reproduced for you? That text log was short given how lengthy net_log logs can be..
But ya try to isolate factors for now like routers etc
Moving in a few months, will retry then.
Thanks for your assistance
A cpu can max out at certain kinds of commands it can process, not only as a whole.