ET - Bug on map load -

(HeXeD) #1

Ok, first off… ET = Amazing game. I love this game.

But, i’m having problems on map loads.

A: For one, i’m awaiting gamestate for what seems like 5+ minutes on the initial joining of a server… <—That’s not really my main problem.

B: After playing through one map… while looking at the stats and whatnot, when it goes to load the next map, it doesn’t show the loading screen at all. It just goes in to the other map, without loading it first. Ex: I can see my gun, pull down the console, see what people are typing, who killed who etc… However i can’t move - see the map - shoot - and then i get messages in the console that say stuff like : r_blah blah not loaded. (Technical huh?) At that time i normally have to reconnect, which blows with the whole XP thing. :\

AMD 1.4 gig Thunderbird
256 MB DDR ram
ti 4200 nvidia vid card

I’ve tried re-installing ET. That’ didn’t seem to help any.
Any help is appreciated.

(HeXeD) #2

Ok, maybe this might help.

Also: Windows 2000
I downloaded the new drivers for the ti 4200 vid card.
I’ve now reinstalled it three times.
I’m about to try and redownload it, maybe a corrupt file of sorts?

This has made my computer crash over 10 times… tonight…
It’s crashing in to the “Blue Screen” it says something about irq less than or not equal to.

btw: It doesn’t crash while playing the actual map, only on the loads.

I’d really appreciate any help with this, it’s making me go absolutely insane.

(Chruker) #3

This sounds like something I could have written just know. I’m having the exact same problems, and have tried reinstalling, but nothing has helped.

I’m very curious to know whether you have been able to solve the problem?

(mouse) #4

Get rid of your latest Nvidia drivers and install the older driver for it, for instance 45.23: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_45.23.html (only win2k/xp in the link).

(Chruker) #5

I am actually running the 45.23 drivers, however its the Asus release of them.

(Psycho Al) #6

B: After playing through one map… while looking at the stats and whatnot, when it goes to load the next map, it doesn’t show the loading screen at all. It just goes in to the other map, without loading it first. Ex: I can see my gun, pull down the console, see what people are typing, who killed who etc… However i can’t move - see the map - shoot - and then i get messages in the console that say stuff like : r_blah blah not loaded. (Technical huh?) At that time i normally have to reconnect, which blows with the whole XP thing. :\

Yep yep, I had this for a while. It had been a year or two since I’d played a Q3 engine game online and I had forgotten the ever important com_hunkmegs command. Shockingly it’s defaulted in ET to something like 56. I upped this to 200 (make sure it’s in all the configs) as I have 512mb of RAM. Pgh’s rule for com_hunkmegs is two thirds of your RAM but there’s a cut-off point that I always forget. Basically, if you can set it above 128 you’ll be fine.

I have not had that map load problem in the three or four months since I made that change by the way. :slight_smile:

Edit: More on com_hunkmegs here.