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by Swordfish
Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:14 am
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Lag, Lag, Lag
Replies: 18
Views: 5985

Why we're you using Apache anyway?? Web site? Well kinda. For me, Adium file transfers are very slow (10kpbs) and unreliable. So I put the files I want to transfer in my Sites folder (I'm on Mac OS X) and give the link to my buddies. Much faster (80kbps), but now that I disabled Apache I don't know...
by Swordfish
Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:58 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Lag, Lag, Lag
Replies: 18
Views: 5985

A notorious culprit is having Apache running in the background. Basically, if you have a web server on your home connection, you can forget playing BZFlag. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here. OMG... I totally forgot I enabled Apache months ago, and was wondering why I had high lag recently. Than...
by Swordfish
Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:02 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: freezing problem
Replies: 19
Views: 7341

I've found a temporary (and very wierd) fix: assign a key to toggle window mode. restart bzflag. now go into windowed mode, then back into fullscreen, and start playing. Not a single freeze since I started doing this... :shock:
by Swordfish
Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:11 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: freezing problem
Replies: 19
Views: 7341

for me anyways, it only freezes since 2.0.4 Also, I noted some of the special effects in the "Effects" options produce an instant freeze the second I start to play. When I delete the prefs, and it I don't modify any or the effects/video options I can play some time before it freezes. If I ...
by Swordfish
Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:56 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: freezing problem
Replies: 19
Views: 7341

I've had this crashing for a long time. Finally someone who has the same problem as me. I thought it was caused by my CPU overheating (it's overclocked) but that didn't make much sense since I run processor intensive games and sometimes do movie encoding, but only BZFlag freezes. Also I did a test t...
by Swordfish
Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:21 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: freezing client
Replies: 5
Views: 3538

ah ok... try running stable instead of beta versions :wink: (sorry that's the only thing I can think of)
by Swordfish
Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:19 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: freezing client
Replies: 5
Views: 3538

what are your computer specs?
do you have to hard restart (press the power button)?
by Swordfish
Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: what hardware do you play bzflag on?
Replies: 86
Views: 32545

Merci :D

the CPU overclock was the fun part - although very stressful! (hardware OC: I had to open up my eMac)

the card is just a software OC with ATIccelerator II
by Swordfish
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: what hardware do you play bzflag on?
Replies: 86
Views: 32545

eMac 1.40 Ghz (overclocked 40% from 1 Ghz)
768MB SDRAM
80 GB HD
32 MB ATI Radeon 7500 (overclocked 27%)

eMac Tilt & Swivel Stand
Logitech MX500 Mouse & Apple Pro keyboard

Image
by Swordfish
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:43 am
Forum: Players
Topic: Language on BZflag.
Replies: 100
Views: 52660

In order: French (with or without the Quebec accent/jargon that Americans don't understand :P ) Ouske ta mi la booze t@b*****? English . Learning German (3 months of classes up to now) Wie geht's? Ich bin Swordfish :D PS: I cannot have a normal conversation with a French speaking Moroccan! I barely ...
by Swordfish
Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:36 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

Don't OC. Your CPU is most likely overheating and thus using its useful thermal limit to kill power, don't OC and play BZFlag, bad combo. Same feature is built into intel P4s (maybe P3) and new AMD CPUs. Mac's have this too, if they didn't you'd have fried eMac. :( thanks for the reply. the problem...
by Swordfish
Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:43 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

Started randomly freezing again. I have no idea what's the problem but it's annoying as hell.
by Swordfish
Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:41 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

Ok I have no idea what I did but the freezing stopped for now... I'll post here if it starts happening again.
by Swordfish
Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:28 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

that's what I said in my first post... I deleted this folder

Code: Select all

~/Library/Application Support/BZFlag)
(should have specified it was the whole folder :? )
by Swordfish
Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:25 pm
Forum: Players
Topic: The Story of Your Callsign
Replies: 385
Views: 161266

I can't really remember why I chose Swordfish as a callsign. I think I liked it because a swordfish is fast, agile, big, and can punch holes though tanks :)

The swordfish's characteristics don't always match my style of gameplay, but when they do, watch out! :mrgreen:
by Swordfish
Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:45 pm
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

BTW, what version of Mac OS X do you have? :oops: should of posted that: Mac OS 10.4.3 I would try resetting your CPU back to 1Ghz... (I never knew Macs could overclock :roll:) I hope there is a better solution because opening an eMac is a hell of a job... did it once, no sure I want to do it again...
by Swordfish
Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:26 am
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

downloaded the disc image (i.e. 'official' download)
by Swordfish
Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:15 am
Forum: Bugs and Problems
Topic: Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4
Replies: 11
Views: 6333

Serious crash on Mac OS X, BZFlag 2.0.4

When I play BZFlag online my Mac suddenly freezes after a few minutes and I have to hard restart. I tried a few diffrent servers, and the crash happens every time after a few minutes of play... Of course my bzflag.crash.log doesn't get written because I have to hard restart :roll: I tried to delete ...