Lag whenever an objective sound plays

brollysan · 2011-07-31 12:47:43 UTC

I have this problem where the game lags for 2-3 seconds EVERY damn time a NEW objective related sound plays. For instance if we are playing goldrush and it is the first time someone repairs the tank I will lag for 2-3 seconds, the second time no lag, if it is the first time sound spots a landmine that map I will lag 2-3 seconds on the “landmine spotted” sound, on further discoveries of landmine no lag. I have come to think that this is a HDD issue, that for some stupidly retarded reason the game does not load the proper sounds for each map in the beginning of the map so it has to read from the HDD every new time an obj related sound is needed.

Anyone else with a similar problem? What was your solution? Is this a general problem? How do I fix this? ANY input at all is appreciated, I am sort of a perfectionist and seeing my stats take a 10-20%(yes those blasted maps with 247 obj sound spam) hit because I am watching a connection interrupted icon is NOT fun.

Mateos · 2011-07-31 12:54:23 UTC

Hello brollysan,

Are you under Windows 7? What graphic card do you have?

If NVidia card, you should open the NVidia Control Panel, and disabled Threaded Optimization and Vertical Sync for ET.

brollysan · 2011-07-31 13:14:34 UTC

I am on windows 7, using a 9800gtx

acQu · 2011-07-31 14:19:11 UTC

[QUOTE=brollysan;362621]I have this problem where the game lags for 2-3 seconds EVERY damn time a NEW objective related sound plays. For instance if we are playing goldrush and it is the first time someone repairs the tank I will lag for 2-3 seconds, the second time no lag, if it is the first time sound spots a landmine that map I will lag 2-3 seconds on the “landmine spotted” sound, on further discoveries of landmine no lag. I have come to think that this is a HDD issue, that for some stupidly retarded reason the game does not load the proper sounds for each map in the beginning of the map so it has to read from the HDD every new time an obj related sound is needed.

Anyone else with a similar problem? What was your solution? Is this a general problem? How do I fix this? ANY input at all is appreciated, I am sort of a perfectionist and seeing my stats take a 10-20%(yes those blasted maps with 247 obj sound spam) hit because I am watching a connection interrupted icon is NOT fun.[/QUOTE]

Try increase your sound cache and hunkmegs.

com_soundMegs
com_hunkMegs

Default value for soundMegs is 24, for hunkMegs 156. Check if you have these values ingame.

Also, yes, this sounds like a memory problem. Though 2, 3 seconds is a bit long to read from disc imo.

brollysan · 2011-07-31 15:27:06 UTC

Soundmegs is at 100 and hunkmegs at 512

ailmanki · 2011-07-31 15:31:43 UTC

Could it be that a antivirus is scanning the files?

Another thing, if you have somekind of newspack installed, its possible that soundmegs is not big enough.
Since some newspacks have more then 100mb wavs… But well I doubt that is your prob.

xneon · 2011-10-16 15:48:23 UTC

I have the same problem, and one more guy, too:

so I bet there’s more of us.

still no solution?

IRATA · 2011-10-17 07:51:10 UTC

512 mb hunkmges is a big waste of memory. A value of 128mb is more than enough.
100 mb soundmegs might not cache all sounds. Enter client “cmd /s_list” to get more infos. From my experience some maps use up to 160mb of sound cache memory. Option A is to set com_soundmegs to a value of 160mb. Option B is to set a value of 256mb (2 ^ 8).

xneon · 2011-10-17 08:38:26 UTC

but I only get info that 24 is set and 128 is latched. How do i set 128 for real?

dutchmeat · 2011-10-17 09:51:25 UTC

Start your ET using extra arguments in the shortcut, or set those variables in autoexec.cfg

xneon · 2011-10-17 16:59:44 UTC

well i get the “latched” when loading autoexec, even after vid_restart, i’ll try writing it directly into profile config in both etmain and etpro

xneon · 2011-10-19 11:41:43 UTC

it seems that higher settings even prolong the warp moment after playing new sound - I have no idea how to fix that. this sucks, cause ET is best multi ever and I cannot play on obj servers and even levelling up gets me warps.

dutchmeat · 2011-10-19 13:08:01 UTC

Which Win7 version are you running ?
What security applications are you running ?
Can you show us a list of PK3’s that’s loaded ?
Since when did this problem occur ?
Do you have other HDD’s ?
What’s the state on your HDD ? (age, space used, etc)
What other applications do you have running besides your security applications ?
Did something(windows, punkbuster, whatever) updated recently ?
Did you try to update your sound/motherboard(in case of onboard) drivers ?
Did you try reinstalling ET ?

There, have fun.

xneon · 2011-10-19 16:37:04 UTC

win xp sp2 in reduced version called powerxp 3 - many useless features disabled (it’s not the reason of lags, because I guess the other guys are having “proper” system versions installed)
no security applications
you mean this?

----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~zz_etkey_mjss.pk3 (3 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro~~~~~~~~~~~etpro326_menu_02.pk3 (10 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\z_medbox-satchel.pk3 (7 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\z_ht_spreesound.pk3 (25 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\z_hirn_needs.pk3 (53 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\z_hbc_menu.pk3 (17 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\z_crazy.pk3 (6 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\zz_baserace-scoreboard-ned.pk3 (19 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\warbell_etproonly.pk3 (23 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\Warbell.pk3 (242 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro rans_cm_icons_ETpro.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro ransmitter-beta.pk3 (78 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro c_base.pk3 (63 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\sw_oasis_b3.pk3 (45 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\sw_goldrush_te.pk3 (48 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\sw_battery.pk3 (32 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\supply_pro.pk3 (66 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\supplydepot2.pk3 (46 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\supply.pk3 (44 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\sp_delivery_te.pk3 (51 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\school.pk3 (115 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\rommel_final_ETPRO_ONLY.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\reactor_ETPRO_ONLY.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\mSp_v4_3_2.pk3 (21 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\missile_b3.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\kspree.pk3 (19 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\karsiah_te2.pk3 (41 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\hbc_mineflags.pk3 (8 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\hbcksprees.pk3 (31 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\frostbite.pk3 (99 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\fpwatermark.pk3 (5 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\fpmines.pk3 (5 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\fpclan_v2_campaigns.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\et_mor_pro.pk3 (127 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\et_mor2.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp_goldrushfix.pk3 (3 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_4_9.pk3 (168 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_4_8.pk3 (167 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_3_7.pk3 (150 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_3_5.pk3 (141 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_3_4.pk3 (138 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_1_8.pk3 (128 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_1_6.pk3 (122 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-v2_0_3.pk3 (85 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\eTTp-TDM-v0_5.pk3 (48 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\etpro-3_2_6.pk3 (107 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\erdenberg_b2.pk3 (79 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\dubrovnik_final_ETPRO_ONLY.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\cathedral_final.pk3 (82 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\caen2.pk3 (85 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\caen.pk3 (82 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\bremen_final.pk3 (100 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\bremen_b3_hotfix.pk3 (10 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\bremen_b3.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\braundorf_b4.pk3 (51 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\b4_fix.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\axislab_final.pk3 (172 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\adlernest.pk3 (113 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etpro\1944_beach.pk3 (60 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory/etpro
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain~~~~~~~~~~~etmain_menu_04_update_nolua.pk3 (33 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain~~~~~~~~~~~etmain_menu_02_nolua.pk3 (25 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain_BRIDGES_.pk3 (213 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\Warbell.pk3 (242 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\venice.pk3 (330 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\v1_drakir.pk3 (436 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\v1rocket_b2.pk3 (108 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain ransmitter.pk3 (143 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain ransmitter-beta.pk3 (78 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain rainyard.pk3 (56 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain e_valhalla.pk3 (56 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain emple_final.pk3 (57 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain c_base.pk3 (63 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\sw_oasis_b3.pk3 (45 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\sw_goldrush_te.pk3 (48 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\sw_battery.pk3 (32 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\supply_pro.pk3 (66 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\supply.pk3 (44 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\SuperGoldrush_Final.pk3 (170 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\summer_palace_b1.pk3 (33 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\sp_delivery_te.pk3 (51 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\SG_1945_final.pk3 (217 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\school.pk3 (115 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\rtcc2.pk3 (41 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\rtcc.pk3 (41 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\rommel_final.pk3 (126 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\Riverwar_V2.pk3 (102 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\rhine2.pk3 (117 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\rhine.pk3 (108 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\resurrection.pk3 (305 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\reactor_final.pk3 (115 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\public.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\pak2.pk3 (22 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\pak1.pk3 (10 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\pak0.pk3 (3725 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\over_the_top.pk3 (144 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain
avarone.pk3 (105 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\mp_sub_rc1.pk3 (155 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\mp_sub_fal.pk3 (225 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\mp_bin.pk3 (6 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\mml_church_et_v1.pk3 (107 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\mlb_daybreak.pk3 (158 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\missile_b3.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\marketgarden_et_r2.pk3 (275 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\karsiah_te2.pk3 (41 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\italyfp2.pk3 (325 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\isle.pk3 (60 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\industry2_final.pk3 (85 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\headshot.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\HBCsept10.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\HBCSas.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\HBCpirates.pk3 (2 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\goldrush-ga.pk3 (36 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\goldendunk_a2.pk3 (76 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\GA_El_Kef.pk3 (39 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\fueldump_uv.pk3 (87 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\frostbite.pk3 (99 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\fortress.pk3 (52 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\flughafen.pk3 (355 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\et_slide.pk3 (21 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\et_mor_pro.pk3 (127 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\et_mor2.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\et_ice.pk3 (61 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\erdenberg_b2.pk3 (79 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\cortex(2).pk3 (358 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\cluedo_130.pk3 (240 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\cathedral_final.pk3 (82 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\castleattack_b5.pk3 (156 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\caen_4.pk3 (115 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\caen2.pk3 (85 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\caen.pk3 (82 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\bridge.pk3 (187 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\bremen_final.pk3 (100 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\bremen_b3.pk3 (86 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\bremen_b2.pk3 (82 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\bremen_b1.pk3 (77 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\braundorf_b4.pk3 (51 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\axislab_final.pk3 (172 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\axislab_b2.pk3 (153 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\Atlantic_Wall_full.pk3 (88 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\adlernest.pk3 (113 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\1944_cherbourg2.pk3 (118 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\1944_beach.pk3 (60 files)
D:\Gry\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory/etmain

handle 1: etconsole.log

61842 files in pk3 files
RE_Shutdown( 0 )
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
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since i’m on a aristo notebook (2-3 years)
only one, three partitions (10GB system and two 115GB)
the age is ~3 years, quite a lot of space on C and D (4,5 and 31 free, respectively), only >1,5 GB on E (game is on D, E is only for music), everything regularly defragmented
only etminimizer when playing, running services are only pb-related (not counting windows-related and I have many of them disabled already)
no, no such updates were performed
I guess I did try to find other drivers for my soundcard, since it’s onboard and there’re only kind of universal sound drivers for my type of motherboard
yes, I had preinstalled version for a few years and reinstalled it from a scratch some time ago

hm, I noticed ET is saying I have pentium III, where it should be pentium dual t3200 or something
maybe there are too many pk3 loaded?

changing between 44khz and 22khz doesn’t seem to provide solution
I also tried playing on server created by myself, no pb, no tzac, and still got them warps sometimes, tho they weren’t watchable through lagometer, only through fpsmeter and then in gameplay too.
I also deleted now few unused maps so there are fewer pk3s now.
lowering sound performance in sound options in control panel doesn’t do the trick.
what is even stranger, sometimes new sounds are being played with no warp, tho there were no map with at least one.

maybe it’s the dual core being a bi*ch?
edit: nope, setting affinity to single core doesn’t help.
edit2: maybe I should try playing with some external sound card. If only there was somebody to lend it for a while…

hellreturn · 2011-10-21 00:13:47 UTC

Probably you joined the server where one lamer admin made you download pk3 which has autoexec.cfg and it messes up settings. I have seen that happening before.

Remove all custom pk3’s from your etmain. Also are you running your laptop in “performance mod” ?

xneon · 2011-10-25 16:47:19 UTC

hmm, I suppose I have no “slow-me-down” modes running in here. in nView, I set the 3d settings to be fully controlled by applications, so that system wouldn’t choose instead. I moved all the custom pk3s in etpro folder, let’s see what it will change.

Mateos · 2011-10-25 17:08:18 UTC

Have you turned off Desktop Composition, Threaded Optimization, VSync?

xneon · 2011-10-27 18:21:03 UTC

yep, still nothing

Mateos · 2011-10-27 18:25:10 UTC

And increased the cvars values as suggested?

xneon · 2011-10-28 00:00:45 UTC

yes, I even tried ridiculous ones like hunkmegs 512, soundmegs 512 and zonemegs 512. hmm, I think I saw cheap usb soundcards, need to check them. I suppose my realtek chipset is helluva crap.