[ut2003io] Serious issues

Ryan C. Gordon ryan at epicgames.com
Thu Jan 2 15:56:16 EST 2003


> During installation, the installer probed every removable drive in my 
> fstab for each and every action during the installation. I had to remove 
> my floppy and zipdrive lines out of my fstab just for the installation 
> to not take 3 hours. The installer should *NEVER* read the fstab.

This is a bug in the installer; it's reading the fstab because it's 
looking for the game CD.

> During runtime, I noticed the game got increasingly slower. Eventually 
> my sound core ceased to work and the game locked my system. I rebooted 
> and continued to play. The game once again got slow and the sound cut 
> off. I switched to tty1 and logged in root and checked my memory to find 
> that I was using 900MB of memory in my system with 512MB of physical and 
> 1GB swap. Low and behold 'ps -A v' show the following line which pissed 
> me off.

Are you playing a lot of Bombing Run, by any chance?

--ryan.






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