Zugg Software :: View topic - 6.4x locks up while moving and triggers delay

Newbie Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3 Location: USA

ever since I have download the zmud 6.40 and have been running it my resources been 100% usage and when trigger to auto kill or attack, ect it freezes the screen for about 30 seconds. plus when i speed walk it locks up the program for atleast a minute or so...

I am using windows 2000 professional version
have 132 megs of ram
4 giga byte harddrive
my internet connection is both wireless and dsl - i mostly use the wireless connection cause of thorough put it 3 megs up and down.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

This might not be the cause of your problem, but it is worth a shot. Try upgrading the drivers for your network card.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Followed your advice and upgraded the nic drivers but didn't help.. but it was a good try

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try e-mailing Zugg directly at [url="mailto:zugg@zuggsoft.com"]zugg@zuggsoft.com[/url] and explain to him your problem.

Kjata

Beginner Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 18 Location: USA

If you use window transparency or alpha blending anywhere in Windows, that could also be part of the problem. You might try this for Win2000 and WinXP machines to help correct some video problems. No promises though :
http://hotsys.dnsalias.com/Display.html

Newbie Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 7 Location: USA

Same problem here, similar system and OS. I have found that it is only _certain_ triggers that cause the lockup. All my triggers worked fine in Beta 6.16, when imported into 6.40 I have found three so far that caused this. When I disabled them everything runs fine...so far. I'm still tinkering with the triggers to see exactly what is causing the lockup.

"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done."

Newbie Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 7 Location: USA

OK. I've tracked my problem down to the string lists I've been using. I typically have used

#VAR ddoor (-1|0)

to initialize a variable, then accessed the variable using @ddoor.1 and @ddoor.2. Now when I run the alias that initializes the variable, I get @ddoor.1 is empty, and @ddoor.2 is 1. The triggers that utilize ddoor in them send CPU usage to 100% and lock all ZMud windows, until ZMud is shut down.

Now I'm going to go try to figure out how the new nested list system works, to fix all of these. I'm willing to bet that this is the same problem you are having.

"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done."

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Yes, that's because of nested lists. The correct syntax is:
#VAR ddoor {-1|0}

Although the following is really the correct one:
#VAR ddoor -1
#ADDITEM ddoor 0

but the first one is supported for backwards compatibility. Parenthesis won't work because nested lists use them to separate a nested list from the rest of the list.

However, I'm guessing that the lockup occurs for trying to access an incorrect member of the list, in which case it would be a bug since zMUD should watch out for that and prevent it. You might want to try e-mailing Zugg for more info on if it is a bug or not, the syntax however is wrong anyway.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3 Location: USA

you won't believe this but i found the problem it wasn't your program at all but a application i have been running on my system and for some reason my firewall application was causing the lag and other stuff.... Again that for all your help you all did try to help me figure this out