Happy lil Elf
2003-09-10, 12:56 AM
So something odd has been happening to me for a few months now. Here are some examples:
Invisible base (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Invisible_Base.jpg)
You'd think there'd be buildings there, and my gun seems to be missing a few parts...
Time for a swim (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Same_land_with_Water.jpg)
Now you see the water,
Or not (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Land_with_no_water.jpg)
now you don't.
Missing parts (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Stretchy_Tracers_from_the_problem.jpg)
Me standing there looking at what should be trees with a Vanu in said trees who apparently loaded stretchy ammo. At least the waypoints look normal >_<
Invisible Bridge (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/On_a_bridge_being_shot_at.jpg)
Me on a bridge (notice the semi-translucent support pillar in the bottom left) in my Lightning (notice the tracers hitting something near the center? That's me) sighing and taking a screenshot just before hitting ctrl-alt-del and shutting PS down for probably the 12th time that night.
Ok, now then, once the above happens my frames per second drop to usually between .5-2fps and needless to say the game becomes unplayable. I can exit the game and run other programs flawlessly (C&C Generals, Eleite Force 2, IE anything I've experimented with) but if I then try to log back in to PS before restarting my computer, I log in to the same shit. If I do a complete restart however it works fine again, usually for 5-10 minutes back when this was a major problem.
Now for something even more odd. This was something that started not too long after retail release. At first it was very sporadic, might happen once a night or so. It then became more and more common until it was happening about every 5-10 minutes of gameplay. Once it got to that point, I stopped playing for a couple of weeks and amused myself with Gamecube, PS2 (I <3 u Vice City) etc. because god damn is it annoying to have to restart every 10 minutes when you're trying to play a game. I decided to give PS a go again after those couple of weeks and it ran smoothly for 6 hours. Then, recently it's started doing this again although very rarely, just like when it started before. Nothing on my computer has changed since I got my Beta CDs. No RAM changes, no new drivers, no new Direct X, nadda. Needless to say, I'm a bit puzzled. Any ideas?
Invisible base (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Invisible_Base.jpg)
You'd think there'd be buildings there, and my gun seems to be missing a few parts...
Time for a swim (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Same_land_with_Water.jpg)
Now you see the water,
Or not (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Land_with_no_water.jpg)
now you don't.
Missing parts (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/Stretchy_Tracers_from_the_problem.jpg)
Me standing there looking at what should be trees with a Vanu in said trees who apparently loaded stretchy ammo. At least the waypoints look normal >_<
Invisible Bridge (http://home.comcast.net/~theraginggerbil/happylilelf/On_a_bridge_being_shot_at.jpg)
Me on a bridge (notice the semi-translucent support pillar in the bottom left) in my Lightning (notice the tracers hitting something near the center? That's me) sighing and taking a screenshot just before hitting ctrl-alt-del and shutting PS down for probably the 12th time that night.
Ok, now then, once the above happens my frames per second drop to usually between .5-2fps and needless to say the game becomes unplayable. I can exit the game and run other programs flawlessly (C&C Generals, Eleite Force 2, IE anything I've experimented with) but if I then try to log back in to PS before restarting my computer, I log in to the same shit. If I do a complete restart however it works fine again, usually for 5-10 minutes back when this was a major problem.
Now for something even more odd. This was something that started not too long after retail release. At first it was very sporadic, might happen once a night or so. It then became more and more common until it was happening about every 5-10 minutes of gameplay. Once it got to that point, I stopped playing for a couple of weeks and amused myself with Gamecube, PS2 (I <3 u Vice City) etc. because god damn is it annoying to have to restart every 10 minutes when you're trying to play a game. I decided to give PS a go again after those couple of weeks and it ran smoothly for 6 hours. Then, recently it's started doing this again although very rarely, just like when it started before. Nothing on my computer has changed since I got my Beta CDs. No RAM changes, no new drivers, no new Direct X, nadda. Needless to say, I'm a bit puzzled. Any ideas?