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WarMole
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Slooooow Game

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I´ve not found any solution to my problem yet, so I´ll just post it here:
Some days ago, after restarting my PC, WarZone suddenly took much longer to load than before, and looking at the map preview (for Multiplayer/Singleplayer Skirmish) took even longer. But thats not the only problem: For me it takes forever to start a game. >.< When all are ready, the loading bar appears, with the fast black lines, then it disappears, but the game doesn´t start yet. I can already move my cursor, but I´m still on the loading screen. After a minute or so the loading bar appears again, but now with white, not moving lines, which slowly accelerate and get darker, and after about 2 minutes i can finally get into the game. It can´t be a hardware problem, because all my drivers are up to date and I didnt change any settings on my PC when the problem first appeared. The problem started with the Beta 9, and continued with Beta 10, and stable has the same problem. I also didnt change anything ingame, so I don´t really know what to do. It´s not grave, but it´s very annoying for the guys I´m playing with and for myself :( Well, I did some things before that happened, like closed UDP Port 2100 because it´s not necessary, but I opened it again, and nothing changed :( (The game itself runs smooth). Please help, I don´t want everyone to quit my games because it takes forever to play :mad;
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Post by Zarel »

You probably installed a Windows update for your graphics card. Windows Updates generally include drivers that don't support hardware-accelerated OpenGL, which Warzone uses.

Simply install the latest version of your video card's drivers from your video card manufacturer's website, and you should be good to go.
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Re: Slooooow Game

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Driver manually updated and installed, didnt help a bit :|
Maybe it was because I installed the Vista SP 1 & 2?
(But I won´t uninstall them, they really helped to get rid of the nasty bluescreens) :rolleyes:
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If it is taking a really long time to load, but the menus are fast, then it looks like your HD is having issues, or maybe spyware/malware.

Check your event viewer for errors/warnings.
Run a virus scan.
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Re: Slooooow Game

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I don´t really know how to handle a HD problem, so instructions please ;)
ran a virus scan for 15 hours, checked everything, no viruses.
I also ran the event viewer, but I don´t really know what i should look for :|
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WarMole wrote:I don´t really know how to handle a HD problem, so instructions please ;)
ran a virus scan for 15 hours, checked everything, no viruses.
I also ran the event viewer, but I don´t really know what i should look for :|
In the event viewer, it will show a yellow "!" and red "X" for problems. If you double click on a entry with the red "X", it will tell you what the problem is.
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Re: Slooooow Game

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No errors/warnings occured while starting WarZone,
but when I started my PC.
The performance of the processor 0 is restricted by the system firmware. The processor is since 16 seconds after the last report in this reduced performance state.
I didn´t find a solution to this problem in the Internet, can anyone help me?
Oh, here´s something more detailed:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Processor-Power" Guid="{0f67e49f-fe51-4e9f-b490-6f2948cc6027}" />
<EventID>7</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-21T08:47:51.538Z" />
<EventRecordID>154792</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="60" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Laptop</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="Processor">0</Data>
<Data Name="CapDurationInSeconds">16</Data>
<Data Name="PpcChanges">12</Data>
<Data Name="TpcChanges">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
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Re: Slooooow Game

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The performance of the processor 0 is restricted by the system firmware.
Just a guess, but laptops often have a setting to throttle the CPU in order to prolong battery life.
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I tried many, but I didn't find anything that really helped....so I just reinstalled my Windows :D
Now I got some problems with my Router Driver, but thats another story.... :-S
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reinstall windows O_o

I guess that is one way to 'fix' it... :|
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Re: Slooooow Game

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:| After some days playing WarZone online, I got 2 bluescreens (yesterday)
I looked it up on the internet where it says my drivers aren´t up to date....
But I didn´t change anything the last days and it worked perfect before.
Only happens in multiplayer after playing about 30 minutes :(