DDO freezes my computer

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:19 am

i have installed ddo on my ubuntu it works fine when starting it up and for the 1st 5 or ten minutes then it freezes my computer anyone have a fix for this?

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:41 am

On 08/31/2011 02:19 AM, hellhoundevil wrote:

i have installed ddo on my ubuntu it works fine when starting it up and for the 1st 5 or ten minutes then it freezes my computer anyone have a fix for this?

What video card and driver do you have? Wine shouldn't cause the entire
computer to freeze up if something fails, but your video card driver might.

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:06 pm

tparker wrote:On 08/31/2011 02:19 AM, hellhoundevil wrote:
i have installed ddo on my ubuntu it works fine when starting it up and for the 1st 5 or ten minutes then it freezes my computer anyone have a fix for this?
What video card and driver do you have? Wine shouldn't cause the entire
computer to freeze up if something fails, but your video card driver might.

iv had more of a look and its not freezing my pc it appears to be a memory leak after about 5 or 10 minutes of playing my ram suddenly skyrockets to 4gb usage and well that caps my ram and my computer response is limited to none until i kill ddo proses my graphics card is a radion 5870 im runing the generic drivers that ubuntu asked for my pc runs WOW and Perfect world fine but not DDO? the ram does not build up and over load its just sudden
cheers

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:08 pm

im running duel channel 2GB ram ddr3 x2 (4GB ddr3 ram total

bcpeterson · Post by **bcpeterson** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:43 pm

DDO definitely has a memory leak and its not unique to Wine, it happens in windows too.

The biggest, most helpful workaround is that when changing zones, lower the texture detail to very low. You can change it back after you zone. And this only mitigates the problem from minutes to hours.

Also, if you change characters, its best to quit and log back in.

(The appdb used to have lots of good information and tips but they seem to have gone away recently...)

triso · Post by **triso** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:03 pm

hellhoundevil wrote:i have installed ddo on my ubuntu it works fine when starting it up and for the 1st 5 or ten minutes then it freezes my computer anyone have a fix for this?

Could this be your problem? From http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=278274
"The DDO client has a persisent memleak connected to character switching. The more one switches characters without reopening the client, the worse it gets. This causes jerky animations, increasingly longer loadtimes, and difficulty with the client keeping up with large combats. This isn't even limited to raid combats: After 4 character swaps, I can't solo sins of attrition anymore because of the lag from all the monster attacks."

This is a bug that bites all windows users not just wine folks. Check to see if there is a newer client available.

bcpeterson · Post by **bcpeterson** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:45 pm

triso wrote: Check to see if there is a newer client available.

As an MMO, there aren't client/software updates outside of patches...which are required to be applied to connect and play anyways.

It's gotten better recently (the client), and wine has gotten better at handling the game as well, so it is getting better.

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:53 pm

bcpeterson wrote:
triso wrote: Check to see if there is a newer client available.
As an MMO, there aren't client/software updates outside of patches...which are required to be applied to connect and play anyways.

It's gotten better recently (the client), and wine has gotten better at handling the game as well, so it is getting better.

So this isn't a Wine issue at all. Nothing to see here. Just a dumb company pissing people off with a buggy client.

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:29 pm

jorl17 wrote:
bcpeterson wrote:
triso wrote: Check to see if there is a newer client available.
As an MMO, there aren't client/software updates outside of patches...which are required to be applied to connect and play anyways.

It's gotten better recently (the client), and wine has gotten better at handling the game as well, so it is getting better.
So this isn't a Wine issue at all. Nothing to see here. Just a dumb company pissing people off with a buggy client.

ok the memory leak happens just as quickly on low graphics as it does on high lowering the graphics does not make a difference and as for leaving areas my memory caps when all i have done is walk around stormreach harbor i dont leave or change area or character ?

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:19 pm

i have the newest client i can find but the problem has not changed

bcpeterson · Post by **bcpeterson** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:24 pm

Did you follow the suggestions at:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=212618

Lately, I've been running relatively crash free. The new anti aliasing works as well. I can run without any winetricks, but to get sound I need to run in Windows 2000, and not the default XP.

But crashing within minutes isn't the memory leak problem. It sounds likes something else is going on with the system, perhaps overheating.

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:02 pm

bcpeterson wrote:Did you follow the suggestions at:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=212618

Lately, I've been running relatively crash free. The new anti aliasing works as well. I can run without any winetricks, but to get sound I need to run in Windows 2000, and not the default XP.

But crashing within minutes isn't the memory leak problem. It sounds likes something else is going on with the system, perhaps overheating.

it definutly is not over heating the ram spikes from 30% usage to 100% usage

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:07 pm

hellhoundevil wrote:
bcpeterson wrote:Did you follow the suggestions at:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=212618

Lately, I've been running relatively crash free. The new anti aliasing works as well. I can run without any winetricks, but to get sound I need to run in Windows 2000, and not the default XP.

But crashing within minutes isn't the memory leak problem. It sounds likes something else is going on with the system, perhaps overheating.

it definutly is not over heating the ram spikes from 30% usage to 100% usage. and yea iv followed the instructions form thea

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:26 am

"hellhoundevil" <[email protected]> wrote:

it definutly is not over heating the ram spikes from 30% usage
to 100% usage. and yea iv followed the instructions form thea

No idea what is causing the ram usage to spike, but depending
on the technology (and how good the RAM cooling is) the spike
itself could be overheating the RAM. It might be worthwhile
to run memtest86 or some such.

hellhoundevil · Post by **hellhoundevil** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:22 am

perryh wrote:"hellhoundevil" <[email protected]> wrote:

it definutly is not over heating the ram spikes from 30% usage
to 100% usage. and yea iv followed the instructions form thea
No idea what is causing the ram usage to spike, but depending
on the technology (and how good the RAM cooling is) the spike
itself could be overheating the RAM. It might be worthwhile
to run memtest86 or some such.

i have putt 4gb of brand new ram in it stil has the same problem other than that the game runs smoth beter than it did for me on windows until the ram spikes