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Lag cycles
Millie Thompson
Resident Moderator
Join date: 18 Dec 2002
Posts: 364
07-18-2003 11:17
About every 10 minutes or so in game SL will freeze, my HD light will stay solid with no detectable HD activity and after 10 seconds SL continues as if all is well.

Also the same thing happens when I hit the Windows keys, I'll get bumped to the desktop system will "freeze" HD light will be lit for 10 seconds with no activity, and then I can click on the SL menu icon to get back into the game.

System runs Windows 2000 SP3, DirectX 8 and with updated video, sound, and mainboard drivers. System RAM: 384mb DDR, video card: Nvidia GeForce 4 TI 4200 ViVo 128MB.
James Miller
Village Idiot
Join date: 9 Jan 2003
Posts: 1,500
07-18-2003 13:18
I have a feeling this has to do with the Cache. When in SL, go to the edit menu, and go to Preferances. Look for your cache, and lower the size as much as possible. It seems to me like every 10 minutes its saving things to the cache, and for whatever reason, this is causing your client to bog down.

Good luck! :)