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0000212Zandronum[All Projects] Bugpublic2010-11-28 20:442012-01-22 19:58
Minigunner 
 
highcrashunable to reproduce
closedno change required 
MicrosoftWindowsXP/Vista/7
98d 
 
0000212: OpenGL Crash - Garbled Messages and FPS Drop
After installing Windows 7, I was playing on-line and after a seemingly random period of time, the FPS rate dropped from 10-60 FPS (depending on the mod) all the way down to <1 FPS (around 1000-20000 ms per frame). Also, the HUD/HUDMessages started garbling up (losing characters, e.g. "M n gunn r" instead of "Minigunner"). I thought that I wouldn't be able to get any help out of this, but today, I managed to stay on a server while the problem occurred, then eventually, the game crashed. Hopefully, this resulting report is relevant to the problem.
I have tried to fix this problem before. I set the compatibility settings to Windows XP (my previous system), going to GL compat mode, using GLDirect, and re-installing Skulltag. None worked out very well, or they introduced some undesirable side-effects.
OpenGL
zip CrashReport.zip (19,834) 2010-11-28 20:44
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png Screenshot_Doom_20101126_145518.png (412,668) 2010-12-01 00:31
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Issue History
2010-11-28 20:44MinigunnerNew Issue
2010-11-28 20:44MinigunnerFile Added: CrashReport.zip
2010-12-01 00:31MinigunnerFile Added: Screenshot_Doom_20101126_145518.png
2010-12-10 22:15TIHanNote Added: 0000714
2012-01-22 19:38MinigunnerNote Added: 0002522
2012-01-22 19:57Torr SamahoNote Added: 0002524
2012-01-22 19:58Torr SamahoStatusnew => closed
2012-01-22 19:58Torr SamahoResolutionopen => no change required
2012-06-09 13:22Torr SamahoCategoryGeneral => Bug

Notes
(0000714)
TIHan   
2010-12-10 22:15   
These issues are GZDoom related.

One way to be sure, try to run a few intense levels in the current GZDoom.
(0002522)
Minigunner   
2012-01-22 19:38   
Well, I figured out the problem. For one, I have a bad video card (ATI Radeon x300), though that runs Skulltag fine. However, the real culprit was a memory overload. I was playing resource-intensive mods with only 512 MB of memory. Fortunately, I have upgraded to 2 GB, and I have never had any more problems. Feel free to close this.
(0002524)
Torr Samaho   
2012-01-22 19:57   
Thanks for the info!