[ut2004] still no love with ut2004 amd64

Spike spike at spykes.net
Fri Nov 4 20:33:55 EST 2005


That doesn't mean much, a PSU can be cheap, or even defective, and just
plain fluctuate on a power rail so badly after a certain amount
of current drain.

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:11:33 +1100
Dean Hamstead <dean at bong.com.au> wrote:

> i have a 400w power supply, with a mboard and two hard disks
> running off it.
> 
> Dean
> 
> Spike wrote:
> > I would try another power supply. Just because it doesn't crash in
> > Win32 doesn't mean anything. When UT2004 starts it could be putting a
> > surge on your PSU that it cannot handle, mostly the GFX card causing
> > this surge, yes it can and does happen. Windows has alot of power
> > management that Linux doesn't have also, even in the nvidia drivers.
> > 
> > -Spike
> > 
> > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:43:27 -0500 (EST)
> > David Wood <obsidian at panix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>He's right - ut2004 can't make you reboot, and if you're rebooting you 
> >>have a problem with:
> >>
> >>1) Your hardware
> >>2) Your kernel
> >>3) Your nvidia driver
> >>4) Some other driver...
> >>
> >>Not necessarily in that order. Traces from ut2004 will have nothing to do 
> >>with these. Just because some things work doesn't mean there isn't a bug 
> >>or problem in one of these.
> >>
> >>You say you are on current versions of things (although I don't know about 
> >>any patches from any forums, my setup runs fine without them!), althogh I 
> >>don't know, maybe there was some issue with the way you built it or bad 
> >>gcc version or something... anyway, once you rule out the software, it's a 
> >>hardware thing.
> >>
> >>Do you dual boot? Does it run OK in windows? Anything else make you crash 
> >>like that? Is q3 the only other opengl thing u tried? Check your temps 
> >>lately?
> >>
> >>On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>ahh well nvidia claims its ut2004
> >>>
> >>>can i send you some straces etc? this is really driving me nuts
> >>>mind you im learning alot about debugging.
> >>>
> >>>Dean
> >>>
> >>>Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Jordan Thoms wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Origional porter was Icculus, his site is www.icculus.org
> >>>>><http://www.icculus.org>.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>His email address is icculus at clutteredmind.org
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm on this list.
> >>>>
> >>>>If the game is rebooting your system, it's not a bug in the game, but a
> >>>>bug in your drivers or hardware.
> >>>>
> >>>>--ryan.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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