Freezing / locking problems

[dancook]

Running five wow clients, 16gb ram, sandybridge 2600, GTX 480, intel x-25m SSD (also o/s drive),

Now and then my client is locking up, I can switch to the other clients but then they often shortly lock up too. I switch to my o/s, browser etc and that's not working either - like somethings ground to a halt. Sometimes it comes back to life after a minute, or just now I had to hard reset.

Using ISBoxer, 12,34,56,78,34, core setups. Any one had an issue like this?


what i will try now is setting windows 7 to performance mode, which turns off all the fancy interface features.

[dancook]

It just happened again - but this time.

The first one locked, so i switched to another - where I could still run around but as soon as I opened a gui menu either the map or the guild screen or an option off the ESC menu - it froze for 30 seconds.

[Oatboat]

open up task manager and have it running in background visible. When it starts locking up look at see if your CPU or Memory is maxing out.

Could also be an overheating issue on either GPU or CPU. A number of things really ... old drivers on vid/sound cards....

[Ughmahedhurtz]

You might also try running a stress test on your memory to see if a chip has gone bad or is generating errors.

[dancook]

I'll try a memory test.

I was using the windows resource monitor

zero hard faults on memory, cpu usage was fine dropped to 0% during not responding on four clients (wasn't running a fifth), gpu and cpu temp are fine.

When it all came back to normal I had been disconnected from the server! after a minute or so.

[Oatboat]

Sounds like either
A. Driver error on Sound or Video card.
B. Your accounts are fighting for the same file. Depending on which program you use Isboxer or Keyclone.

I know Isboxer uses virtual files so it shouldnt happen if you use it.
Keyclone you might have to make seperate folders to launch the game from.

Try disabling sound on your 2-5 accounts and just play sounds on main account see if that helps.

Edit: I dont disagree with testing your memory... but usually if its memory it wont lock up it will just dump to a reboot. If its just locking up i wouldnt think memory just yet.

[dancook]

I only had sound enabled on one client, and it hung - just as i killed the last boss in an instance - phew!

using ISboxer btw.

[dancook]

Memory test ok as well, will look for newer nvidia drivers.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Memory test ok as well, will look for newer nvidia drivers.

The default memory check/diagnostic on a Windows OS CD or in an Intel BIOS isn't what I was referring to. I mean, go grab Prime95 4-core version, put it in Torture Test mode and let it run overnight. If you don't have any errors in the morning, it's not RAM/CPU.

[dancook]

The default memory check/diagnostic on a Windows OS CD or in an Intel BIOS isn't what I was referring to. I mean, go grab Prime95 4-core version, put it in Torture Test mode and let it run overnight. If you don't have any errors in the morning, it's not RAM/CPU.

cheers, I'll do that.