Anyone else getting total lockups?

doctormidnight on 25/2/2005 at 06:44

In the last few hours I've had 3 complete system freezes while using the T3 Editor. These require a reboot, and because my motherboard is a funky ass Nforce 2/Gigabyte combo, re-booting is a pain in the ass. After shutting down via the power button, I have to reach down underneath my desk and turn off the power switch on my PSU, let the system sit for 30 seconds, and then turn it back on.

Is anyone else getting lockups that require a restart? I'm to the point now that I'm not wanting to use the editor if it's just going to crash my whole system anytime I try to use it.

ProjectX on 25/2/2005 at 07:49

I get it everytime I subtract a brush (nce I've already subtracted a single brush). Although this could simply be because I'm trying to do this on my laptop

Mandrake on 25/2/2005 at 08:33

Quote Posted by doctormidnight

Hate to say it, but there isn't really anything an application like the editor can do to cause a total freeze of your machine under Windows 2000 or XP UNLESS you have a driver problem (buggy or out of date video drivers, sound drivers etc) or a hardware problem like dodgy ram or video card etc...

At worst the editor itself should crash back to the desktop...

doctormidnight on 25/2/2005 at 08:39

Quote Posted by Mandrake

All of my drivers are up to date, and this is the first time in months I've had a glitch, let alone a complete lockup. I'm having the same experience that ProjectX described, so I imagine I will just wait until school is out in May when I have time to manually go through a few hundred sets of driver combinations.

ProjectX on 25/2/2005 at 16:12

It doesnt crash windows for me, just chews up and spits out my RAM.

Then it says my Graphics card has had an aneurism.

Hit Deity on 26/2/2005 at 05:21

Un-fucking believable. I now know why this bitch is called Unreal Tournament. Unreal, because it's unreal the amount of crashes you're going to experience. Tournament, because it's going to a be tournament to the death between me and T3Ed as it stomps my piddly ass into submission.

I opened up and tested/played several different missions. Even opened up Tutorial1 and easily got it working. All of a sudden, I must have pissed off some greater daemon on one of the lower planes of the Abyss because the friggin' thing is crashing constantly now!!! :mad:

I can't even build a new mission without it locking up after the first subtraction of a brush. I can create one brush and subtract it, then try another and **BONK** ... your ati2vag driver has encountered a problem and must take a little lie down now. System might hang, it might go into negative 2-bit color where there really aren't any colors, or it could just go to a black screen and sit there like a turd. These are the absolute latest drivers available for my card and they worked fine for 4 hours, what the hell happened?!?@#$@#$!@#$123

I didn't change anything that I know of. I have even tried to retrace my steps through the tutorial online at (http://www.planetunreal.com/architectonic/tutorials/first_level_part1.html) and it does the same thing after 2 or 3 brushes are placed. :(

I'm about to give up I think. This is crazy.

doctormidnight on 26/2/2005 at 06:12

Quote Posted by Hit Deity

Un-fucking believable.

I'm just about finished with a fresh install of windows onto my SATA drive, but I have a feeling that this is going to be a Catalyst problem. I wonder if possibly reverting to some old school drivers (like early 4.x's) might help.

doctormidnight on 26/2/2005 at 10:27

Well, that didn't work. I fired up the editor, subtracted a 256x512x256, then attempted to do a second one, and she locked up on me completely. I rebooted, and started fiddling around, this time I got 1 256x512x256 room, a spiral staircase, and two lights before it hard-locked again when I went to create another room. Here's my system specs and driver versions in case anyone needs them for diagnostic purposes:

Antec Tru480
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP
Athlon Barton 2500+ (stock speed)
2 x 512 Samsung RAM (not Dual Channel)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Cat 5.2)
Audigy 2 Platinum, (1.84.50)
1 X WD SATA Raptor 74GB
1 X WD 80GB
2 X Maxtor 40GB HD
1 X IBM 40GB HD
2 X IBM 120GB HD
1 X Sony DW-D18A DVD-RW
1 X Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD-ROM (Custom Firmware)
A whole bunch of USB stuff that probably doesn't need to be listed.

P.S. My memory passed with flying colors on a MemTest86 overnight test, and I ran Sandra's burn-in test for 5 hours today with no problems either.

Hit Deity on 26/2/2005 at 13:12

I'm going to try re-downloading the editor. Don't know why it would matter, but...6 hours wasted now and I'm looking for anything to try at the moment.

And I'm going to reinstall everything from scratch...again.

Just seems really strange that it worked fine for a while, then started hanging up.

Stardog on 26/2/2005 at 14:50

I hear there are somedodgy problems if you have AA enabled on your video card. Or maybe that was in HL2's editor, I can't remember.

It sounds like you guys have decent enough computers, so you might have it turned on.

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I get it everytime I subtract a brush (nce I've already subtracted a single brush). Although this could simply be because I'm trying to do this on my laptop

I'm using a laptop - 2.6ghz, radeon 9600 with catalyst rivers "hacked" into it. It runs fine.