Random performance issue

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:57 pm

Hello,

This has me stumped, I managed to install the game after a bit of work, then started it up.
I was left with a picture of a ship on a hanger and a mouse cursor which wouldnt move, the HDD light was going all the time. After about 10 minutes of this I managed to kill the program.

I tried again and this time It worked until I launched the ship and then stopped responding the second it showed the cockpit, so again I killed it after a number of minutes.

My computer can't handle it you may think? Well I was suspecting that (even tho I am some way over minimum spec), so I tried one more time, this time I launched, went to the mining base, bought supplies, went back to the planet, sold supplies, bought more, launched, went back to mining base, and as I pressed d to dock, the whole thing hung again.

I just dont get it, it CAN run fine with a great performance, then suddenly it will sit there for ages doing nothing but with the Hard Drive going flat out.

Anyone got any suggestions?

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:31 pm

There are indeed some performance problems with the latest release.

Try upping the size of your swap file. That should help make the delays manageable.

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:35 pm

Ok thanks.
I am running the linux version, where is the swap file located, what is it called and how do I increase the size of the file?
I am guessing the size is set in the configuration file, so I shall try looking in there, but would like a little guidance to make sure I do it correctly.

Major · Post by **Major** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:01 pm

I had similar problems with swapping during gameplay.

After I reduced the detail level to "high detail" in the options there was only minimal swapping left.

IÂ´ve got an Athlon XP1700+, 256MR DDR RAM and a Geforce2TI with 64MB DDR RAM and running on Win2K

How much RAM do you have

kazymyr · Post by **kazymyr** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:53 pm

nirwin wrote:Ok thanks.
I am running the linux version, where is the swap file located, what is it called and how do I increase the size of the file?
I am guessing the size is set in the configuration file, so I shall try looking in there, but would like a little guidance to make sure I do it correctly.

hehe, if you're running Linux chances are you have a swap partition, not a swap file. Or at least you should - Linux works much better if the swap has a whole partition dedicated to it. As a last resort, you can also use a swap file, but that will give you a performance hit for pretty much everything.

Look in /etc/fstab, that'll tell you where your swap is located.

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:02 pm

Yep I do have a swap file, as I remember its a fair size, 512MB maybe.

I am running it on a AMD Duron 1300, 384MB Ram and a GeForce 4 MX 440 64MB

I spose I'll have to try turning detail down, but the actual game isn't sluggish so I don't think that will help

kazymyr · Post by **kazymyr** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:48 am

Like I said, you'll be better off for everything, including games, if you replace the swap file with a swap partition. You don't need one that big, 256M should suffice for everything. I personally have a 128M swap partition, and I never felt the need for more.

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:25 pm

Sorry I did mean swap partition, not file.

I need to concentrate more when typing