[chrzanek]

Hello,

My apologies if I have opened this thread in wrong subforum, please move if needed.

I have two problems with mediaVP 3.6.12 running on SCP 3.6.12. They occur only if mediaVP is running.

First problem I had since the beginning. After starting FS from launcher (open launcher 5.5f) game window gets minimized in a second, every time i try to restore it minimizes again. After some time i am able to maximize it and play however it is really random. Sometimes it minimizes during the game, sometimes in a pilot choice screen. Firewall & antivirus off, specs as below, log attached.

Second issue started appearing at the end of original campaign (yes, i've played through whole game with random minimizing screen). I have really good fps count yet I get complete slowdown (till 0fps) when i hit ship and smoke, explosion etc. appears. Slowdown sometimes last for few minutes and then it gets back to normal state (till you hit another ship). Never happened in earlier missions, started after mission when you need to rescue Snipes. This renders game completely unplayable

I would appreciate any help on those. Searching forum did not solve my problems (tried different things).

Specs:

Core 2 Due E8200
Palit 8800GT (driver 258.96)
2GB OCZ






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[Rodo]

this goes to FSO support subforums I guess, anyways... Welcome to HLP!

About your first problem, there's an option in the launcher (I believe it's under experimental tab, not sure right now) that allows you to play in windowed mode, might wanna check that.

About the crashing thing slowing your game, not quite sure what can cause it, someone else will come along to help you about that, I'm sure.

[General Battuta]

Hrm. This should not be in any way related, but could you move your MediaVPs folder out of /mods/ and into your root FS2 directory? It should now be /FreeSpace2/mediavps_3612.

[BlackDove]

This probably doesn't help, but I had random minimizing in games because my internet would cut in and out, and **** like Google Talk would go offline and online, and whenever it would switch status, I'd get minimized to desktop.

Probably not your issue though I thought I'd share.

[Parias]

Yeah, pretty sure the minimizing is something OS or program related popping up in the background spontaneously (and potentially very briefly) - there's nothing native to FSO that should be causing that. I'd focus on cutting out as many running background programs as possible to narrow things down for starters.

[chrzanek]

Thanks for fast answers and warm welcome.

I am not sure the root cause in SCP that is why I've created it in different subofrum. I have also checked windowed mode, it seems to solve minimizing issue with some fps drop however slowdowns still persist. Game just drops to 0fps at explosions. Playing at windows mode is not most pleasant for me, however I could live with that if game would be working without slowdowns as earlier.

To answer your suggestions there seems to be no visible applications minimizing game, I will still experiment with services

minimizing seems to create similar entries in log like:

Frame  0 too long!!: frametime = 0.307 (0.307)
Frame  0 too long!!: frametime = 0.442 (0.442)