Backdaft
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Posted - 2008.06.27 01:02:00 -
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Finally saw my bug report on cache size problems? LOL. Nice to feel like ccp actually reads those things.
Patch seems to work fine for me. But it didn't cure my "out of video mem" problem (see below)
Recap:
Used to run 2 clients, premium, windowed mode, with no problems for over two years, on my Desktop replacement notebook (Dual core, 2Gb mem, nvidia Go 7600 256mb)
The evil 1.1 boost patch strikes. Horrible frame rates, running out of video mem with multiple clients (I checked the errors coming out of logserver), lockups for 1 full minute when video mem not found on another client startup(only took 642 looping exceptions before client finally failed and allowed me to kill the task)
Now I seem to remember this was when ccp reorganized the Esc menus. So this likely explains the broken cache size combo box. And probably why, still to this day, I have to listen to station sfx while docked, ON ALL MY CLIENTS, even though I have the Station Environments toggled off. And deal with poor framerates while docked (I suspect environment is still being loaded and rendered in the background and I'm just not seeing it.) CCP I THINK YOU STILL HAVE MANY MORE ESC MENU PROBLEMS TO FIX!
Like Kalmanaka posted, once any task got over about 500Mb of mem usage, I'd start having problems, like whiteout on one client, which only cleared when all clients were relogged. I alway wondered why reducing cache size never seemed to reduce the process size. They'd just keep growing until they errored out. I'd assumed it was a memory leak.
So Emperionic Age hits and still dealing with the 1.1 boost patch problems. Post 1.1 boost patch I now have to run all clients in classic mode to get decent framerates. Last time I'd rechecked this it still hadn't changed.
I can currently run 3 clients at once but only if I log them all in within a few minutes of each other.
At the time of this post I've got 2 clients running for about 1 hour now, normal cache size, with no problems. As a test I just tried to login a 3rd client (a late login like this almost always causes the 1 min "out of video mem" lockup), and yes, I just locked up for 1 minute, so that's still not fixed. I don't mind an error if there's no video mem for the 3rd client, as my card only has 256Mb, I just hate the massive spamming of exceptions, causing total system lockup, before the client finally gives up.
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