Hey everyone! I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 w/ ALSA and the Ubuntu-packaged ATI Catalyst driver for my ATI X1700. My problem is that I'll be playing CounterStrike or Half-Life or BrainBread for maybe 2 minutes if I'm lucky, and then suddenly my computer locks up. I get to hear the same 1-second slice of in-game sound over and over again and the screen stays frozen. In CS:CZ, it seems that sometimes the game will lock up my computer as soon as I finish joining a server, or a few seconds afterward. Another fun thing to note - if I happen to be watching a video while playing the game and the game doesn't have control of my mouse - when my computer locks up, I can still move my mouse cursor around and hear the video, but the screen is still frozen (except for mouse cursor) and I get to hear that slice of in-game sound repeated over and over. When it's locked up, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp does not work, and the only way to escape the situation is a hard shutdown by holding the power button down. One more thing, with CS:CZ, I usually get to play for a couple minutes on my own server, whereas I might get one or two seconds on an internet server before my computer locks up.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:24 PM, kynan <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hey everyone! > > I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 w/ ALSA and the Ubuntu-packaged ATI Catalyst driver > for my ATI X1700. > > My problem is that I'll be playing CounterStrike or Half-Life or BrainBread > for maybe 2 minutes if I'm lucky, and then suddenly my computer locks up. I > get to hear the same 1-second slice of in-game sound over and over again and > the screen stays frozen. In CS:CZ, it seems that sometimes the game will > lock up my computer as soon as I finish joining a server, or a few seconds > afterward. > > Another fun thing to note - if I happen to be watching a video while > playing the game and the game doesn't have control of my mouse - when my > computer locks up, I can still move my mouse cursor around and hear the > video, but the screen is still frozen (except for mouse cursor) and I get to > hear that slice of in-game sound repeated over and over. > > When it's locked up, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp does not work, and the only way to > escape the situation is a hard shutdown by holding the power button down. > > One more thing, with CS:CZ, I usually get to play for a couple minutes on > my own server, whereas I might get one or two seconds on an internet server > before my computer locks up. > > > >I'm not so sure how to fix the freezing but if you hit Ctrl + Alt + one of the "F" keys you can try to log-in on a different session and try to kill the process instead of hard booting. I think you'll have to set your computer to boot in run level 3 to do this though. I'm not so sure how to do this in ubuntu -- "Black holes are where god divided by Zero." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080801/0a51a47f/attachment.htm
kynan - I have *exactly* the same problem! (I haven't played a video at the same time as the game, but otherwise I'm in the same boat as you!) Have you had any luck in finding a solution? I'm stumped! I'm running on a T43 ThinkPad, ATI graphics too... Please let me know if you find any possible solutions or if you need any more info about my system to help find out whats causing both of us to be affected. I'll keep searching and post again if I come across anything useful. My guess is a gfx crad issue - I've read a few times before that ATI cards aren't supported as well as nVidias... Cheers, Andy
Marc wrote:> En/na kynan ha escrit: > > > I tried switching to low-quality sound a couple times. No improvement. I also tried OSS, Esound, etc. And the crashes happen no matter what the window decoration stuff is. Generally, I run it in a virtual desktop, but I've tried all the different settings in 'Graphics.' And the problems seem to be generally in online play. But running my own server will eventually crash too. > > > > > > > I have the exact same behaviour with another game ( X-session lock-up > while music from other programs continue working ok, but no mouse and no > keyboard, so any Ctrl-Alt-XX keystroke does nothing). My game can only > be played online. > > I asked before in the list and I was told it was an ATI-related problem. > Somebody asked you to test with other games, so I thought that maybe you > were interested in giving it a try, specially because it is free to > download, register and play: > Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com/). > > I found another walkaround to kill the game other than hard reset: login > with a remote terminal ( ssh ) and kill the process, maybe you could try > if it works for you, obviously you will have to set up the ssh server, > which should not be very difficult. I can help you off-list if you are > interested in trying.I am really starting to think that ATI may have something to do with this, still soyunds wierd. Have you tried rolling back to your previous gfx drivers? Also, maybe you could go into CS.CZ settings and mess with drivers (choose 'Software'). Gfx will be ugly, but will allow you to test it. Also try to run game in windowed-mode, that should help you with the problem of the mouse (I guess) SSH is a good idea though, just type sshd in console, then type whatever they tell you to apt-get and it should be pronto, I myself ssh most of the time. Do you have any DLL Overrides?
good idea to delete every single video driver you have on the system and install new ones, just incase they are corrupted, this program does both uninstall then reinstall over the top of the latest drivers. while i could delete drivers and install drivers myself i found this program could find "all" the ones i could not see. and thus got my gfx card running like a champ a lot quicker than i could. http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html