Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:29:23 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> To: Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This has to be a bug... Message-ID: <20040222182923.GA20822@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4038D937.7040103@drexel.edu> References: <4038D937.7040103@drexel.edu>
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:30:47AM -0500, Justin Smith wrote: > My system: > FreeBSD jsmith.org 5.2.1-RC FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC #0: Mon Feb 2 12:06:30 EST > 2004 root@jsmith.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > > with 512 meg of RAM > > I have downloaded and installed the linux version of America's Army > 2.0.0a and run it as an ordinary user (it's even installed in an > ordinary user's account rather then /usr/local). > I haven't tried AA2 yet, but have AA1.x installed and several other games. Although games work for me in -stable as well as -current I usually play in -stable as -current approximately halves the FPS on my system. > Sometimes --- when there are several windows open on my machine --- > running it reboots the machine. Other times it runs perfectly (like > right after a reboot). Sometimes, when it fails (particularly the first What video hardware are you using? I have a Geforce4 using the nvidia driver and got used to crashes while starting games. Once the game is up however I can't remember that I ever had a crash. It's difficult to make a guess how frequently this happens, but since installing the UT2004 demo (about a week ago) I had only one crash while starting the demo. I have no idea how to reproduce these crashes :-(. > time after a fresh install of it), it corrupts the file system in a way > that requires one to manually run fsck. The first time I used the > America's Army, even the manual fsck couldn't fix the fs corruption: > there was a message "unrecoverable softupdates error". I was able to > mount the partition, back up my data, rebuild the file system, and > restore the data. > Do you have background fsck enabled (default in -current)? It's a year ago when I disabled this feature on my -current installations since the machine would easily crash during the background fsck and cause a mess. (I admit that running a port build during the fsck is probably not really a good thing to do...) > America's Army is a HUGE program (it uses almost 2 gig installed). Any > suggestions? I'll give AA2 a try and let you know how it is doing here. Karel.
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