I'm having a problem w/ Descent 3

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:58 am

This one is new to me. In the middle of playing, my screen will freeze, sound will carry on as normal for a few, then that will freeze/stutter, the frozen screen will kind of stutter, go black, and then I'll find myself booted from the server and back at the TCP/IP game screen. Upon my return, players still in the server say that it looks like I lagged out of the game. This will happen a few times a night, sometimes more frequently.

This is a new issue for me. Unfortunately, it co-incides with installation of nVidia Forceware Version 77.72 & the nVidia refresh rate unlock registry key, and with numerous minor tweaks...

Virus/spyware scans + defrag have been (of course) carried out to no avail.

Anyone have any suggestions on this problem?

SuperSheep · Post by **SuperSheep** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:02 am

It happened to me as well, but it turned out to be related to crappy modem drivers and an IRQ conflict. I would start with a rollback to the old drivers and removal of your tweaks.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:13 am

For various reasons I'll just accept this issue, rather than roll back video drivers...

Good tip on the IRQ conflict however. I need to check that out, along with capping frames, because I wasn't getting over 500 FPS previously.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:24 pm

Ok. I checked my IRQ's, even freed up some by turning off unneeded stuff, looks hunky dory...But it's still happening

It's only happening in Descent 3 so I'm going to guess it's the video driver. I can live with it I suppose. I have a nice 1.7ghz + voodoo5 system if need be.