Radiant crashing / performance

(Chruker) #1

Hey

I’ve been having some problems with GtkRadiant crashing my computer when I’m mapping. After it crashed 3 times yesterday I tried to see if any of the preference options would get it more stable.

I have changed some of them and, while it remains to be seen if its stability has been improved, I got a huge performance boost from disabling the option ‘Update xy views on camera move’. When I use the arrow keys to move around it litterally went from a slideshow at around 10 fps to 25+ fps. Well I’m happy so I just wanted to let others know :smiley:

— non-mapping related —
When the system was crashing I was usually using the mousewheel to zoom in the camera window. So perhaps the improved performance will help on the stability.

When I say system I don’t mean just the GtkRadiant application but the computer would simple blank the screen and reboot. And though I’m running Windows XP with all the latest patches its only while doing the above in GtkRadiant the computer has crashed. So I think the computer it self is stable enough.

However to gather more I have switch on some Windows settings to give me more info if the system breaks again.

(MadJack) #2

OC’ing?

I had similar experiences on my side and bringing the FSB down by 1 Mhz solved 90% of the crashes. I use a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB with the Omega Drivers (based on latest catalyst 4.4).

(Chruker) #3

No overclocking.

And sadly it crashed again a minute ago so the changes didn’t do the trick.

Windows pointed at a file - anvioctl.dll/sys - which is installed by the Asus version of the nvidia display driver, so I have deinstalled the Asus driver and installed the nvidia reference driver, so now I’ll just have to map and see if that has cured it.

(TFate) #4

Holy cow, that update XY on camera move thing really did help. Maybe not a 15 FPS difference, but there’s definitely a performance boost. What exactly does this thing do, anyway?

BTW you mean uninstalled, not deinstalled? :wink:

(Chruker) #5

uninstalled of cause :slight_smile:

When the option is enabled it updates the camera icon in the 2D views, to where the camera located and its direction. When the option is disabled it only updates the camera icon when you select the 2D view.

(MadJack) #6

I tried that… didn’t see any differences shrugs so might as well keep it updated :smiley:

(ratty redemption) #7

I might be wrong, but I think the “update XY views on camera move” doesn`t just update the camera gfx, but redraws everything in the xy windows, so the more of those windows you have the more performance hit your get if this pref setting is on.

also, as you mentioned the mouse wheel is usually being used when radiant crashes, you might be able to update your mouse driver, or test the directx input devices, incase the problem lies there?