AdricTG
01-25-2011, 10:00 AM
I'm not sure if this is a graphic problem or not. I posted in OT to see if anyone could help me there. But I'll post here as well.
Ok, so last... wednesday a weird thing started happening to my computer. When playing HoN, after the hero picks and once the game is actually started, some weird things start happening. They don't always happen, but sometimes they do.
First I get this weird "blinky" lag. Every 5-10 seconds or so the action freezes until the computer turns black for a second, and then I can see stuff again.
If I move the mouse to the side of the screen to scroll during the freeze, after the "blink" I end up where I was scrolling to. I can also order my hero around... sometimes and he does it through the freeze.
Other times he starts running back to base due to D/C protection.
It gets worse and worse as I continue trying to play, and things get chunky and it becomes impossible to play.
I try restarting HoN, and that doesn't do anything. It just keeps with the weird blinking.
Now here's where we get to the REALLY weird stuff that happens.
One time, I was playing and I was on Legion, and I could ONLY see the legion side of the map. If I went across the river to the hellbourne side, everything would slow down and turn black the farther I scrolled into the hellbourne side, and I couldn't do anything til I went back to the legion side.
Shortly after this I got a blue screen infinite loop memory dump screen. Something about my nvidia card.
Searching this out, I found I needed to update my drivers. So I did.
I tried playing! Success a game complete! Ha ha! Another game complete! And then... BAM. Same problem started happening again.
So I scanned my computer for viruses, boot time scan. Found a few, got rid of them. Attempted to play again.
Success! A full game! A good one too!
But next time I played the problem was back, the viruses were not though. I thought it might have had something to do with a new mod I got. So I disabled all my mods, deleted them, and then re-installed HoN.
Hooray! It worked. For a game.
The most frustrating part is that it doesn't start until after a game has already started, so I have no way of testing it. And it isn't always either, so i could run in practice mode (for hours even) and it might not happen, making me think it is fixed until the next time I try to join a game.
Another interesting fact, once it starts, even when I close down HoN, it continues. With only windows up (I'm running windows xp sp2) it continues to lag and blink every few seconds or so. Which I thought was very odd.
My friend said he updated some other things related to the graphics card, and he thought that would fix it.
Alas, it did not. The lag still occurred, but with a new twist, now it would loop things that people said in voice chat while it was lagging out, which I thought odd considering I thought it was a graphic related problem. It eventually got all chunky until I ctrl alt delete end tasked it. I tried rejoining the game, but when HoN came up it was already lagging and I couldn't even click the reconnect to game button.
And once everything turned into rainbows. A big block of rainbows with no texture.
I really don't know what else to try. I'm gonna take my box apart today and see what I can do in there, give it a good cleaning, make sure the cards are in tight, stuff like that.
And this problem ONLY occurs while playing HoN. I can play other games fine. I'm not sure why.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm gonna try and take a video of it with my phone next time it happens and post it on youtube.
I will keep people updated.
Ok, so last... wednesday a weird thing started happening to my computer. When playing HoN, after the hero picks and once the game is actually started, some weird things start happening. They don't always happen, but sometimes they do.
First I get this weird "blinky" lag. Every 5-10 seconds or so the action freezes until the computer turns black for a second, and then I can see stuff again.
If I move the mouse to the side of the screen to scroll during the freeze, after the "blink" I end up where I was scrolling to. I can also order my hero around... sometimes and he does it through the freeze.
Other times he starts running back to base due to D/C protection.
It gets worse and worse as I continue trying to play, and things get chunky and it becomes impossible to play.
I try restarting HoN, and that doesn't do anything. It just keeps with the weird blinking.
Now here's where we get to the REALLY weird stuff that happens.
One time, I was playing and I was on Legion, and I could ONLY see the legion side of the map. If I went across the river to the hellbourne side, everything would slow down and turn black the farther I scrolled into the hellbourne side, and I couldn't do anything til I went back to the legion side.
Shortly after this I got a blue screen infinite loop memory dump screen. Something about my nvidia card.
Searching this out, I found I needed to update my drivers. So I did.
I tried playing! Success a game complete! Ha ha! Another game complete! And then... BAM. Same problem started happening again.
So I scanned my computer for viruses, boot time scan. Found a few, got rid of them. Attempted to play again.
Success! A full game! A good one too!
But next time I played the problem was back, the viruses were not though. I thought it might have had something to do with a new mod I got. So I disabled all my mods, deleted them, and then re-installed HoN.
Hooray! It worked. For a game.
The most frustrating part is that it doesn't start until after a game has already started, so I have no way of testing it. And it isn't always either, so i could run in practice mode (for hours even) and it might not happen, making me think it is fixed until the next time I try to join a game.
Another interesting fact, once it starts, even when I close down HoN, it continues. With only windows up (I'm running windows xp sp2) it continues to lag and blink every few seconds or so. Which I thought was very odd.
My friend said he updated some other things related to the graphics card, and he thought that would fix it.
Alas, it did not. The lag still occurred, but with a new twist, now it would loop things that people said in voice chat while it was lagging out, which I thought odd considering I thought it was a graphic related problem. It eventually got all chunky until I ctrl alt delete end tasked it. I tried rejoining the game, but when HoN came up it was already lagging and I couldn't even click the reconnect to game button.
And once everything turned into rainbows. A big block of rainbows with no texture.
I really don't know what else to try. I'm gonna take my box apart today and see what I can do in there, give it a good cleaning, make sure the cards are in tight, stuff like that.
And this problem ONLY occurs while playing HoN. I can play other games fine. I'm not sure why.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm gonna try and take a video of it with my phone next time it happens and post it on youtube.
I will keep people updated.