SL client still hangs.

System specs:

Kubuntu Linux 6.10 Edgy Eft
Dell Inspiron E1505
ATI Radeon x1300 256MB
1GB RAM
2GB swap on main hard drive
Running KDE, at a system load of about 15% before starting SL

Every once in a while the game jumps off into never-never land and starts absolutely hammering my system. Disk usage maxes out, CPU usage pins at 95%, and it explodes in memory and fills every available bit it can get its hands on. Only way to fix it is to reboot (ugh, what is this, Windows?) or go to tty1-6 and spend ten minutes for the machine to wrestle enough memory from SL to be able to run login, ps | grep, and kill.

The first person to say "well duh, don't use ATI" is gonna get brained. That's not a frigging option.

you could try booting up from a live cd (ubuntu 6.10 ?)
and running SL from under there,
there are no ATI drivers, but radeon setup pretty well, so you can compare.

Shane Oherlihy wrote:

>ATI Radeon x1300 256MB

Are you quite sure about that?
Somebody will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong, but you could have one of those 128/128MB Hypermemory cards (like I do) and the second 128MB is actually system memory the card borrows. All goes well until you've got enough textures and stuff loaded that the video card overruns its internal memory and goes Hyper. I seem to remember I got similar symptoms to yours - everything would be fine for a while, then all hell broke loose.

Try setting 128MB video card in the Preferences.

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Roy

Quite sure. (SL under Windows also autodetects it as 256MB, the Catalyst control center says it's 256MB...you get the picture.)

It's not a HyperMemory card. I did try setting it to 128MB, though, and the same thing happened. Went out of control, slurped up every bit of memory it could get its hands on, and pinned the CPU.