Posts made by YouTheNoob

@IlGyn What happened when the game crashed? Did it just stop working? Is it a reoccuring issue? What were you doing when it crashed?

Try the d3dWindowsCursor command in console. That changes the NVIDIA settting so it's not an issue.

I have to buy a server for a customer and was looking at the CPUs. Your CPU has a poor per/thread score. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U has a per thread score of 1,995. There are a lot of much older processors than yours that beat it. You CPU isnt bad, infact its good, just not with this game.

For reference, the laptop I'm running this on is a "Intel Core i7-8750H @ 2.20GHz" with a per core score of 2,352". Look in the CPU list below and sort by Per Thread.

There are a lot of really old CPUs that have great individual cores, just dont have that many cores.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/CPU_mega_page.html

@PoMMeS Glad you got it working. Interesting solution there. The ISP normally give you the cheapest box they can.

The way I see it, the things that could be at fault are:

• The PC hardware (cables, PC)
• The software (drivers, antivirus, FAF)
• The ISP
• Your network

First, have you tried the d3d_WindowsCursor command in console? In game press ' then type the command. It should show an auto completed version. The slowdown in the game will look similar to lag/dropped packets. Check that after changing the setting it is the same.

Have you tried updating your drivers? Windows Update has a semi hidden section at the bottom for updating drivers. I had an issue with my USB controller. Every 45 minutes, it would cause the game to crash. Since updating the drivers to the newest version, it has been fine. I didnt know the section existed on Windows Update.

Although hard to do, have you tried your machine on a different connection to the ISP? For example, if its a laptop, try taking it to a friends house. Have you got a spare laptop you could try and run the game on, at your house? At least then you can rule out the ISP, Router and cables? I had a plastic connection on my old router that had degraded with time and gave me a poor connection.

Are you running antivirus/Firewall at the same time? I've seen antivirus stop things from working and also slow things down by inspecting the packets coming to your machine. Ive also seen firewalls break things. Try turning off the firewall while your play. If that fixes it, add FAF/Supreme commander to the antivirus/firewall exceptions.

Do you get the slowdown from the very beginning of the game or after a specific length of time?

I would go through the list and change things, one by one to see what is at fault. If you can narrow it down to one area it will help. If you can narrow it down to a smaller area we can go from there.

Is it definitely packet loss? The Nvidia driver issue can appear to be lag if you don't know what you are looking at.

You might be experiencing lag with those other games but only notice it with FAF since everyone else has to wait for your packets. BF and COD goes on, regardless of when your packets arrive. With FAF, everyone sits there, thinking you are an ass.

What part of the world are you in? If you're around Australia, then thats due to the distance you are playing over. Its a 300ms round trip time from Oz to the UK.

As Arma said, wifi espcailly 2.4Ghz can easily mess up your connection its a public frequency and everything is probably using it.

How exactly are you diagnosing packet loss? Have you tried with a wired connection? Have you tried using shielded cables or moving them away from large power souces or anything with a high current going through it? I had a HDMI cable, ruin the signal to my TV.

Have you tried updating to a newer version of Firefox? I dont have the issue that you are describing.

I have an idea of what it might be. Your connection must be using Network Address Translation to share an external IP address. I'm guessing that the ports were still open and pointing to the old ip address. Try restarting your router. This will clear all the open ports.

Okay smart ass Every single CPU has more than 2 cores. Have to go back a long way to find a CPU with only one core. I don't know how much "RAM speed" would affect game speed. I'm going to assume that even a slower speed RAM wouldnt be the bottleneck. FAF is limited to 4GB of RAM, which means even slower RAM is never going to be copying large amounts of data in/out.... I might be wrong.

I did think about trying to share FAF across more cores, using VMware ESXi to share the CPU burden across multiple cores. Linus did a project called somthing like "4 gamers, 1 CPU" so it is possible to game on it. To a machine running on VMware, it would see multiple cores but VMware would do the sharing.

Use this site to compare CPUs

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/CPU_mega_page.html

You want a CPU with a high thread score, everything else is irrelevant. SupCom is not configured for multiple cores, due to being released a long time ago. Most CPUs today, rely on sharing the work across the whole CPU. When SupCom was released 4 cores were amazing. Some CPUs now have 56. That means that SupCom would only be able to use 1/56 of the chip.

Could be a few things:

Firewall - The firewall will block the connection for security reasons. Windows comes with a Firewall that might stop the connection. Normally, when you install most programs, it will create a firewall exception, that will allow the traffic through.

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2224362&seqNum=2

There is also the possibility, that your antivirus has a Firewall. Try conguring both.

Another possibility, is that if you share the internet, then someone has blocked a port somewhere in your network eg if you live in student accomodation. Some ISP routers come with advanced security features, that allow you to block ports to prevent users from using specific programs.

NAT (Network Address Translation) can also cause problems, though I think this is less likely. It might be that another user has configured all the FAF traffic to go to another address, that isnt yours. This is known as port forwarding.

Let me know how you get on.

Left Alt + Tab will cycle through the windows programs. I tend to do education between games and look at Firefox. Normally, once the game starts it makes FAF full screen.

So for anyone that has the same problem as me, it appears that this was caused by a driver issue or a USB plugged in to the monitor.

I used the windows driver update to search and found there was 5 drivers that could be updated. I'm pretty good with windows 10 but ive never seen the driver option before.

I also removed a USB stick that seemed to load every few hours. I believe that this was a case of bad drivers and having a USB stick plugged in that would cause an error after x amount of time. Fingers crossed, since the driver update and taking the USB out, I havn't had a single crash. Fingers crossed....

Look amazing. well done. If i had money, I would buy them off you

Try the following:

• Leave it an hour - it might be updating the firmware, which will affect performance. This would also explain the disconnect.

• After an hour, restart it - This is to make sure it is running properly.

• Check your connections - It might be that a cable has degraded over time. Copper rusts, rubber perishes and people dig in gardens. I had a router that was unreliable due to a cable that was too old and has started to fall apart.

• If that doesnt work, get a new router. Most ISPs send you junk. Depending on your connection, you could porbably buy a good router than won't f**k up. Cheap routers can overheat when too much is asked of the crappy little CPU. No company will ever overspec the router, so you end up with a machine that just about works until you make it do too much. Alternatively, call your ISP and see if there's a new one they can give you for free due to the errors.

• Speak to your ISP - The internet connects using a protocol called BGP. Because of how vast the internet is, if there's a problem with one of their nodes, the internet might work but not very well. It might also be that the hardware in the street isnt working properly. I had to speak to my ISP because the box in the street wasnt working properly (something wasnt plugged in well).

• Failing all of that, try running something called an Iperf server. You can send sample data over your connection and check the results. You'll need two sides of it, so ask a friend to help you (this is engineer level, so maybe a bit too hard).

This is FAF Vanilla Any idea what I can do to trace the problem? I did wonder if another process was closing a process or locking a file. Perhaps AVG (anti virus) was locking a file, or some memory but I tried disabling it and got the same crashes.

Thanks very much but this is just with vanilla FAF. Can you please explain what a "stack recursion size" is. Looking at the error logs it appears that the thread was terminated by another process (destroyed process).

I made a post about it here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/640/game-crashed-after-40-minutes

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm running vanilla FAF. When playing after ~40 minutes, the game will freeze my entire computer. The only way to recover is a complete restart of my system. I'm tried making new windows user profiles and this seems to help for a few weeks, but then the problem comes back. Any help is greatly appreciated.

debug: Current gametime: 00:48:00
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00d7f) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00d80) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00d8c) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00433) supplied in a pose update.
warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point.
stack traceback:
[C]: in function IssueGuard' ...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103> warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point. stack traceback: [C]: in function IssueGuard'
...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103>
warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point.
stack traceback:
[C]: in function IssueGuard' ...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103> warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point. stack traceback: [C]: in function IssueGuard'
...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103>
warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point.
stack traceback:
[C]: in function IssueGuard' ...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103> warning: Error running lua script from destroyed thread: IssueMoveOffFactory: Passed in an invalid target point. stack traceback: [C]: in function IssueGuard'
...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua(111): in function <...\gamedata\units.nx2\units\ura0001\ura0001_script.lua:103>
debug: Current gametime: 00:48:30
debug: Loading module '\000/projectiles/tdfplasmaheavy03/tdfplasmaheavy03_script.lua\000'
debug: Current gametime: 00:49:00

I'm in the same boat as you. I created a new user on my machine, just to play FAF. It normally works for a few weeks, then starts again. I made a new user profile when ever it happens. I'm actually on here, to try and find the cause, myself.