Is it just me, or this version is unstable?

HakubiNi · Post by **HakubiNi** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:09 pm

Since the Legend II update, my game has been noticeably unstable, to the point of frustration. The game has got such a huge memory leak I can't do mcuh before the game crashes to desktop and reward me with the infamous '?????' window (which is supposed to be a log report but wasn't translated).

I can tell it's a memory leak due to several other things happening. First, textures will refuse loading. For example, if traveling from Hotan to Donwhang and then to the last floors of the Donwhang Stone Cave, the walls and floor textures won't load and they will remain white. If I try to keep playing, the game will eventually crash.

Also, the game sounds will stop playing after some time. This is a bit annoying, since I use my hearing to do a few timings when using skills, but I would like to be able to play with sounds enabled again. Turning off the sound has reduced the chance of crashing, but not by much.

Also I made a stall during the night. I set my character just outside of the main Hotan Walls (On the sandy safe zone just outside the city walls) and fully restarted my system, and left the stall overnight. I made sure I was somewhere almost no one comes trough. By the morning, I still was logged in, but as I went inside the Hotan town square to sort my items, I quickly crashed.

I can tell it's not my video driver, I've gone and updated it all, and it's fairly new. My hosts file on the Windows folder is still there with the proper linkage. Probably buying more RAM wouldn't help because I have got 1gb and the game, apart from the absurd memory consumption, crashes way before the whole 1gb are used. I don't use any third party programs. I've done several anti-virus and anty-spyware scans with no avail. Reinstalling the game didn't work either.

But it looks like no one else seems to be having the same problems. I still read posts of people being online for days without logging off, and not a single complain post (which of course, would be the first reaction should it be a general problem).

Does anyone have an idea of what is my problem? Is anyone else out there having it? Any ideas on how to fix it?

Nader · Post by **Nader** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:11 pm

well alot of it must be you because its not happening to me, the only thing i see problems with is that some of the textures or pictures "images" get screwed up , but i highly deeply think its just you

MrJoey · Post by **MrJoey** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:14 pm

Only problem I've had, is when I try to turn the game sounds off, if I alt+tab out of the game for a bit, when I go back to the game, the sounds are back.

Nader · Post by **Nader** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:15 pm

MrJoey wrote:Only problem I've had, is when I try to turn the game sounds off, if I alt+tab out of the game for a bit, when I go back to the game, the sounds are back.

that too, its not all sounds its just the background music, because if you go to the options and click backgriund music, it fixes it

Braka · Post by **Braka** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:16 pm

i still do the affinity untick 1 cpu thing in task manager, i dono if the crashes are still going on but i still do this daily just to make sure i dont crash. mabe u should try it

HertogJan · Post by **HertogJan** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:16 pm

I also have the music bug, and the pixels not loading on times. But I do not crash all the time, never really thought about it really, just teleported back and then back again and for me that does it most of the time.

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:16 pm

Yea all ive noticed is textures and pics being stretched

JacksDaughter · Post by **JacksDaughter** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:20 pm

Before legend II, I had no problem. Then I had the ???? error a lot. I finaly found, a week before the fortress war update, that playing in 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024 was the solution. So be it.

Then the fortress war update. ???? again, damn it. This time, I solved my problem using the nvidia drivers from the silkroad website. The latests from nvidia themselves didn't work. So be it.

Then last tuesday, new update. ???? again, damn it again. This time it's the sound. I don't crash anymore by disabling the sound in my game menu. I used to play with the sound as well. but well, so be it...

Waiting for the next client update to look for a new way to fix the new ???? error.

IceCrash · Post by **IceCrash** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:35 pm

eyah agree, sro's been so buggy since the legend 2 update >.>

Speedy · Post by **Speedy** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:38 pm

Blackdragon6 wrote:Yea all ive noticed is textures and pics being stretched

yea those party symbols etc going across your screen ah i first thought it was my vid card lol :banghead:

HakubiNi · Post by **HakubiNi** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:41 pm

Some friend told me to try out the Omega Drivers for my video card. It didn't make a difference. Original drivers or not, I still crash.

I'd really like to be able to play with in-game sounds again. I am a cleric and a trader and by using sounds I can figure out what is happening around me, so I can do things accordingly.

I tried switching to run it on only one core, didn't work either (maybe some placebo effect but not really).

The sounds bug when alt-tabbing is rather common, but ticking it off again after coming back fixes it... But it isn't related to the memory leak issue (happened way before already).

SpInKsTaR · Post by **SpInKsTaR** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:13 pm

Yeah the old Client was perfect for me

it never crashed, used up like 250mb ram but now....

350mb+ Ram, and seems to crash heaps Which is really annoying when you spend 6 mil on a plevel crash 20 minutes later then cant login due to server traffic

Tigerlein · Post by **Tigerlein** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:18 pm

MrJoey wrote:Only problem I've had, is when I try to turn the game sounds off, if I alt+tab out of the game for a bit, when I go back to the game, the sounds are back.

+1...and in options they are still off,its anoying when u are listening to music >_<

Alterran · Post by **Alterran** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:41 pm

how much ram memory do you have cause b4 legend 2 my laptop worked fine but now its to slow its got 512 mb ram ima get 1 gb soon though then it willwork

ArchYourFace · Post by **ArchYourFace** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:42 pm

honestly im noticing more stability than before. at first it was less stable because they did SOMETHING to the graphix. but i got the stripped version of my drivers from tweaksrus.com (they work better than manufacturers driver IMO) and that fixed my video instability, and i got 512 meegs of ram for my 7 year old system that im running. so now its stable as all get out.

probably should make sure you defrag and makes sure your drivers are updated or tweaked.

vanom · Post by **vanom** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:42 pm

i don'have dc, but crash-problems. one time i configured my stall, left the pc and 1 min later i crashed -.-

Apachai_ · Post by **Apachai_** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:20 pm

yup ever since euro update came, sro has been giving alot of those ??? and other random errors. Dunno why, memory leaks and that other stuff mayb, hehe DC and error galore plus hmm the try your luck Login Screen to add to that wooo SRO IS THE BEST!!!

I dont mind the DC or bugs aslong as we can log bak in atleast 3-5 times average but no...they cant do sh_t about goldbots so this what happens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgjdM8FPl8