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I used to have serious issues with stormfront and wizard fe's locking/freezing/crashing every 3 to 5 minutes... I use windows 7 - home premium - 64 bit. This problem was with AND without Lich running. I found that putting both the SGE and stormfront (the client I prefer) into Windows XP - Service Pack 3 mode on Compatability reduced the occurrance of this problem immensely. I now crash a mere 10 or 20 times a day, instead of the 100's of times daily. This also significantly reduced the lag I experience while walking from one room to the next, and the lag that I experienced while attempting to skin a creature, or kill one. With this partial solution I'm able to enjoy the game, even if I am limping along a little because I don't know when my next game freeze will occur.
Had I not known how addictive Gemstone is, I would have bailed long before I found this partial solution.
This is really odd for a couple reasons. I'd expect to hear even more from the Win8 crowd about this, but that doesn't seem to be happening. That might be a demographics difference, though, not an OS difference - so that might be a red herring.
But I also do not recall hearing a lot of this from the past - and Win7 has been out for a while now. I'm going to suspect it's not Win7, but something else. For (speculation!!) example - some anti-virus / anti-malware suites these days watch memory usage as part of their 'live protection' arrangements. SFE is known to have a fairly significant memory leak, and the way it is set to process XML exchange is an older model designed for the much earlier days of Windows. It's possible (speculation!!) that the newer breed of AV software is causing this - and this may be reflected in security logs or AV software logs that could be quickly confirmed.
However, I hate speculation - and it just so happens that I'm going to be installing Win7 later this week, on an older system. So - I'll dig into this personally and see if I can find anything in the base OS / Security Essentials footprint that will shed light on this problem.
Doug
But I also do not recall hearing a lot of this from the past - and Win7 has been out for a while now. I'm going to suspect it's not Win7, but something else. For (speculation!!) example - some anti-virus / anti-malware suites these days watch memory usage as part of their 'live protection' arrangements. SFE is known to have a fairly significant memory leak, and the way it is set to process XML exchange is an older model designed for the much earlier days of Windows. It's possible (speculation!!) that the newer breed of AV software is causing this - and this may be reflected in security logs or AV software logs that could be quickly confirmed.
However, I hate speculation - and it just so happens that I'm going to be installing Win7 later this week, on an older system. So - I'll dig into this personally and see if I can find anything in the base OS / Security Essentials footprint that will shed light on this problem.
Doug
>I'm going to suspect it's not Win7, but something else.
Duskruin.
I didn't try playing through it this time round, but the first time it was open I was getting kicked at ten minute intervals on occasion, and saw the same thing happening to others even when I was just taking regular 5-10s lag spikes.
Duskruin.
I didn't try playing through it this time round, but the first time it was open I was getting kicked at ten minute intervals on occasion, and saw the same thing happening to others even when I was just taking regular 5-10s lag spikes.
