Warzone 2100 Forums

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;

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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>

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.

I tried many, but I didn't find anything that really helped....so I just reinstalled my Windows
Now I got some problems with my Router Driver, but thats another story.... :-S

reinstall windows

I guess that is one way to 'fix' it...

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