UT 2K4 Hangs With New Maps.

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Mitch wrote:

> When playing maps I've never played in UT 2K4 before, at times it hangs. The
> more I play the map, the less it hangs. It kinda looks like it's hanging
> while it gets something off the hard drive then, after it gets it, the game
> doesn't
> hang anymore because it got what it needs. Like maybe textures. When I move
> into
> new area's of the map, the hanging starts again.

It's simply a question of PC speed. More memory, faster CPU, faster hard
drive, better graphics card will all improve the speed programs load and
execute. If you're getting excessive drive swapping, then ram is
probably the major issue.

Got any system specs?

--
Flash

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"Flash" <spam-not@nospam.digdilem.org> wrote in message
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> Mitch wrote:
>
>> When playing maps I've never played in UT 2K4 before, at times it hangs.
>> The
>> more I play the map, the less it hangs. It kinda looks like it's hanging
>> while it gets something off the hard drive then, after it gets it, the
>> game doesn't
>> hang anymore because it got what it needs. Like maybe textures. When I
>> move into
>> new area's of the map, the hanging starts again.
>
> It's simply a question of PC speed. More memory, faster CPU, faster hard
> drive, better graphics card will all improve the speed programs load and
> execute. If you're getting excessive drive swapping, then ram is probably
> the major issue.
>
> Got any system specs?
>
> --
> Flash

Thanks for responding. Here's my system

Windows XP Home SP2
2.66 GHz Pentium 4
512 Meg Ram
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro video card
Sound off mother board

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"Klaus Bregel" <space-orbit@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Am Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:28:44 -0400 schrieb Mitch:
>
>> "Flash" <spam-not@nospam.digdilem.org> wrote in message
>> news:414AF76E.9080304@nospam.digdilem.org...
>>> Mitch wrote:
>>>
>>>> When playing maps I've never played in UT 2K4 before, at times it
>>>> hangs.
>>>> The
>>>> more I play the map, the less it hangs. It kinda looks like it's
>>>> hanging
>>>> while it gets something off the hard drive then, after it gets it, the
>>>> game doesn't
>>>> hang anymore because it got what it needs. Like maybe textures. When I
>>>> move into
>>>> new area's of the map, the hanging starts again.
>>>
>>> It's simply a question of PC speed. More memory, faster CPU, faster hard
>>> drive, better graphics card will all improve the speed programs load and
>>> execute. If you're getting excessive drive swapping, then ram is
>>> probably
>>> the major issue.
>>>
>>> Got any system specs?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Flash
>>
>> Thanks for responding. Here's my system
>>
>> Windows XP Home SP2
>> 2.66 GHz Pentium 4
>> 512 Meg Ram
>> ATI RADEON 9800 Pro video card
>> Sound off mother board
>
> Hi,
> that should be enough, as it fits the suspect the fault must be somewhere
> else. Did u read the faq of this NG? - should help
>
> hth

Thanks. I did look at the faq but I'll look again and see
if I can find anything.