deconstructing the 1am freeze
Aqua:
Since i play in window mode instead of fullscreen, i didnt get this freeze after midnight.
sheep_plushi:
Well I noticed this thread has strayed randomly to freezing and crashing, but just for anyone with the 1am freeze problem (just the problem where after 1am the game slows to a crawl then goes back to normal, no crashing or anything) I use awesomestory now and I don't have that issue. In my case at 1am my cpu useage was going to 100% at that time, but now it runs smooth all the time.
Mental Hobbit:
My update on freezing:
Took out AM two weeks ago, cause the random freezes every couple sim days had become unbearable. Hadn't had a single freeze ever since.
Today I decided to give it another try.
Completely reinstalled TS3 (razor) and the framework. Patched it up to 1.4.6 in one go without errors.
Put in latest AM and Indie, no other mods.
Started a new neighborhood, destroyallhumaned it and threw one of the EA fuglies into it.
Freeze after 14 sim minutes, no way out other than killing it from task manager.
*Sigh*
PC is an Intel Quad, XP, 3 Gigs usable RAM, Nvidia GTX 275. Definitely no overheating or any other hardware related issues.
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Mental Hobbit on 2009 September 28, 16:59:42
My update on freezing:
Took out AM two weeks ago, cause the random freezes every couple sim days had become unbearable. Hadn't had a single freeze ever since.
Today I decided to give it another try.
Completely reinstalled TS3 (razor) and the framework. Patched it up to 1.4.6 in one go without errors.
Put in latest AM and Indie, no other mods.
Started a new neighborhood, destroyallhumaned it and threw one of the EA fuglies into it.
Freeze after 14 sim minutes, no way out other than killing it from task manager.
*Sigh*
PC is an Intel Quad, XP, 3 Gigs usable RAM, Nvidia GTX 275. Definitely no overheating or any other hardware related issues.
Did you try a game without the mods? I would try removing the mods, clearing the caches, and play a fresh game. If it still freezes, it's either an installation problem, or a system problem.
If that works, try with AM only, clearing the caches again, leave out IS, don't do anything like destroyallhumans, and see if it works right.
If it works right, then add the IS in if you want. You are just using the XML (or whatever) part of IS? using the core mod will conflict with AM, because the highlander rule kicks in.
For whatever reason these freezes appear to be limited to a few players, and doesn't apply to everyone, suggesting it is more likely a local problem, with either installation, mod conflicts, or system issues, rather than an AM bug.
Morphar:
Quote from: Mental Hobbit on 2009 September 09, 15:01:06
As this thread has shifted from the 1 am lag to freezes, I can contribute something:
I hadn't plaved TS3 for about a month. After updating AM a few days ago, I found out that my custom, destroyallhuman'ed neighborhood that I had always used to start new games didn't work anymore, it would freeze within seconds. Later I realized that destroyallhumans or destroyallnpcs always leads to an infinite freeze now. Eventually "exterminate 100" gave me a working neighborhood without too many fuglies. I guess there's a problem with creating some particular NPC causing this. It doesn't matter which story mode driver I use btw, I tried Indie, AM's and EA's.
FYI:
I have made some more testing and found a solution.
Mods involved:
NRaas Super Computer v22
Awesomemod 2009-09-26
also
NRaas NoCD
nomosaic
SC command "Fire all Service Sims" freezes the game if awesomemod is installed.
SC command "Fire all Service Sims" works if awesomemod is NOT installed.
Bye awesomemod?
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