WZ lags or crashes

[sveri]

Hi,

i compiled WZ 2.2 and everything seems to work fine. Until i start a skirmish
or the campaign or a network play and move over the base of my
enemy or near to the base. Sometimes that does happen too when i move
to enemy armies. Then WZ starts lagging like hell. It takes ages to move the screen back to my base
or away from the enemy base. Then moving works fine like it always did.

I even compiled the actual git trunk of today and the problems remain.
I have an nvidia graphic card and use the proprietary nvidia driver.
3D works fine with other games.
My System is the actual arch linux.

What i can do is take all settings down, texture size to 32, turn off sound.
Disable vertigal ... and turn shadows of.
Then, and only then, i get no lags.

Funnily my colleague has the same problem. But with little other specs.
He has an ati graphic card and uses ubuntu. But he did compile the 2.2 from
source too.
The next differ is that his computer hangs totally up, but under the same circumstances.
Whenever he moves to the enemy base or to enemy vehicles/armies it crashes totally.
Whereas i can shutdown my game or move away from the "hotspot".

The debuglog doesnt turn out anything helpful.

However feel free to demand anything from me that i can supply to
find out the problem.

I know my description seems a bit unspecific, but i dont know how
to describe it better.
However, the problem is reproducable.

[cybersphinx]

Hm, tell us what OpenAL version you're using, and if disabling sound only helps (keep the graphics settings up).

[sveri]

After a first quick try it seems to be the sound.
Disabling sound and music helps at least for the 10 minutes
i have been playing now. I am using openal 1.7.411-1.

Thanks for the fast help.

[cybersphinx]

Then upgrading to OpenAL Soft 1.8.466 should help, 1.7 especially needs very much CPU with Warzone.

[Buginator]

Then upgrading to OpenAL Soft 1.8.466 should help, 1.7 especially needs very much CPU with Warzone.

And if that version don't help, revert to 1.5

[savo]

I have the same problems as with OpenAL 1.8.466 will try downgrading again.

[stiv]

For me, openAL-soft 1.5 worked better than newer versions. OpenAL-soft 1.8 provided no joy. Rolling back to openAL ( vs openal-soft ) was even better.

Opensuse loonix, nvidia card & driver.

[cybersphinx]

Yes, it seems my synthetic testing doesn't tell much about the performance with Warzone, unfortunately...