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Okay, how do I find out what it causing the game to thrash?
I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about a display driver not responding. Be that as it may, I could live with that. But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem when you're trying to do "go from here to there". I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do not do anything else before starting the game. I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently) Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to happen again. -- pyotr filipivich The question was asked: "Is Hindsight overrated?" In retrospect, it appears to be. |
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Okay, how do I find out what it causing the game to thrash?
Good Guy on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:54:11 +0000
typed in alt.windows7.general the following: On 21/03/2018 02:45, pyotr filipivich wrote: I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. Ya!! Blame Microsoft for everything; You are using its product!! Mother ****er!!!!!!!!!! I knew there was a reason I had you in the bit bucket. Go yell at clouds for a while. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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pyotr filipivich wrote on 21/03/18 13:45:
I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about a display driver not responding. Be that as it may, I could live with that. But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem when you're trying to do "go from here to there". I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do not do anything else before starting the game. I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently) Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to happen again. May not help but have you tried defraging your Hard drive recently?? Under System tools, -- Daniel |
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Wolf K on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:31:07 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following: On 2018-03-20 22:45, pyotr filipivich wrote: I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about a display driver not responding. Be that as it may, I could live with that. But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem when you're trying to do "go from here to there". I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do not do anything else before starting the game. I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently) Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to happen again. Sounds like not enough RAM, though why an old version would need a lot of RAM is unclear. Maybe it's commandeering more RAM as you play. Weird. As in "it ran 'fine' the first four years, why now?" Which is why I suspect an MS update "fixed" something. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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Daniel60 on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:31:59
+1100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: pyotr filipivich wrote on 21/03/18 13:45: I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about a display driver not responding. Be that as it may, I could live with that. But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem when you're trying to do "go from here to there". I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do not do anything else before starting the game. I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently) Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to happen again. May not help but have you tried defraging your Hard drive recently?? Under System tools, Tried, yes. Using Piriform Defraggler - which tells me a) 17% free space, B) 7% fragmented c) as near as I can tell, system and program files are also "intact" Although MRT-Kb890830.exe "looks" suspicious - 187 fragments 127,310 KB last modified 3/16/2018 location Windows\System32 I'm willing to delete that, but it is a Window's file. (Which in and of itself proves nothing.) Anyway, defragging the drive reported a completion time of "sometime tomorrow, maybe." Some day, maybe. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again. I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about a display driver not responding. Be that as it may, I could live with that. But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem when you're trying to do "go from here to there". I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do not do anything else before starting the game. I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently) Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to happen again. Well, this doesn't look encouraging. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threa...dows-7.447297/ "Now I too am suddenly unable to start up my Civ4 game... I'm not a total noob... played over a hundred campaigns of all types/levels." See, wore the game out. If your video driver is responsible, it could be the video driver auto-updated (NVidia and ATI both have updaters they could be using), there might be a DirectX change on your system. Another possibility is you installed IE11 and one of the dependencies of that is installing some DirectX patch (as IE11 uses hardware graphics acceleration). Somewhere in your updates log, might be evidence of what happened. Does the system have enough RAM for this game ? Paul |
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Paul on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:00:33 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following: Well, this doesn't look encouraging. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threa...dows-7.447297/ "Now I too am suddenly unable to start up my Civ4 game... I'm not a total noob... played over a hundred campaigns of all types/levels." See, wore the game out. If your video driver is responsible, it could be the video driver auto-updated (NVidia and ATI both have updaters they could be using), Nerts - if they did, they didn't tell me. there might be a DirectX change on your system. Another possibility is you installed IE11 Again "Not if they asked". and one of the dependencies of that is installing some DirectX patch (as IE11 uses hardware graphics acceleration). Somewhere in your updates log, might be evidence of what happened. Loverly. Does the system have enough RAM for this game ? It did. 8 gigs last I look. Thanks, now I sort of know where to start looking. Meanwhile, I'm trying to find out if Win7 and WinXp have just enough differences in file date stamping that the files which were just copied to the XP box, are now being copied back to the thumbdrive as "newer". (Batch file using robocopy) -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying to find out if Win7 and WinXp have just enough differences in file date stamping that the files which were just copied to the XP box, are now being copied back to the thumbdrive as "newer". (Batch file using robocopy) The combination of FAT32 and DST can lead to surprises on date. A FAT32 file system could contribute to a one hour difference. Between NTFS file systems, everything should work properly. Paul |
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Paul on Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:55:29 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: Meanwhile, I'm trying to find out if Win7 and WinXp have just enough differences in file date stamping that the files which were just copied to the XP box, are now being copied back to the thumbdrive as "newer". (Batch file using robocopy) The combination of FAT32 and DST can lead to surprises on date. A FAT32 file system could contribute to a one hour difference. Between NTFS file systems, everything should work properly. I will check, but this is a case where e.g., Email attachments going back umpteen years, get updated on the thumb drive, with whichever have changed since the last time been copied over. (I use Robocopy for this reason.) Then those files get synced with the ones on the XP Laptop. I do not run the email, I do not open the email, I do nothing with the email. In fact, I change one file in the wordprocessing hierarchy. Time to go home, start the batch file to sync Laptop to thumb drive, and it is copying over a huge number of files, including all those email attachments, as "newer". How can they be "newer" when these are the exact "same" files which are already on the thumb drive? And lets not get started on the whole "you can't delete that folder because it is still open" charade. Rant, rave; rave & rant - I don't care what the OS does as long as it stops messing with the interface. And why don't they have any good computer games any more? Arrgle bargle, grumble. "Aside from that Mrs Donner, how was the party?" tschus pyotr -- pyotr filipivich Old farts these days - not like when I was a boy! We used to have us Real Geezers in those days! Now, they'll let anybody with a little gray hair be an old fart! |
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