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Offline [MAF]Snoopy

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Game lobby freeze
« on: July 29, 2013, 02:02:18 pm »
I've noticed this happening a lot recently, everybody's game seems to be locking up at the same time, mainly in the lobby during race change.

I used to put it down to being a Windows 7 and SA-MP incompatibility issue, but since it happens to most players on the game at the same time, I don't believe that to be the case anymore.

It happened twice a few minutes ago just a few minutes apart.

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2013, 02:07:19 pm »
same problem here i use windows xp , happened 5 times..

Offline [LSR]Cassidy

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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2013, 02:12:57 pm »
same problem here i use windows xp

Yeah, and now the server stopped working too  :(

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 02:22:25 pm »
well the server started minutes ago , and no freeze in the lobby , but now the server is down again...

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 02:32:26 pm »
i've had this problem too. sometimes it unfreezes by itself, other times i have to end the process. hence the mass timeout lol

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2013, 03:10:10 pm »
well the server started minutes ago , and no freeze in the lobby , but now the server is down again...

Let's not get this thread confused with downtime and lobby freezes.

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2013, 03:31:43 pm »
I think it might be from having too many players in the same place.
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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2013, 03:44:48 pm »
Maybe spread players out or have them sent to different worlds, like half of the server or something

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2013, 04:37:08 pm »
Or different new and exciting locations! lol

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2013, 04:56:14 pm »
It'll be pretty hard to top the current one. It's got glass, falling, a big logo thing and most importantly years of memories :(
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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2013, 05:20:31 pm »
The glass smashing is pretty fun lol

@Veritgo, yes like a randomization of different locations each time :D
« Last Edit: July 29, 2013, 05:25:44 pm by (MAF)Snoops »

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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2013, 06:28:11 pm »

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2013, 10:25:17 pm »
I don't know if this is the same as problem have noticed Snoops, but my game constantly freeze between ALL races, either at the beginning or at the end of a race.
I use ctrl alt del  for stop the game, it's impossible to play for me! >:(

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2013, 11:51:37 pm »
u'r lucky, sometimes, when i got that, i've to restart pc completly (ctrl+alt+del of alt+f4 does't work)

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Offline [2F2F]PK

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« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2013, 06:25:11 am »
u'r lucky, sometimes, when i got that, i've to restart pc completly (ctrl+alt+del of alt+f4 does't work)
yeah same for me

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2013, 06:13:21 pm »
u'r lucky, sometimes, when i got that, i've to restart pc completly (ctrl+alt+del of alt+f4 does't work)
yeah same for me
Hey, if you've got the "log out" button on your keyboard then use it - it's faster than restarting. In case it only shows a mouse pointer after you've pushed the button (on the keyboard), try to blind-find the button on the screen - it is there, it just doesn't show up on your display due to hung app. First time it might be hard to find it, but once you did it, you can forget about restarts ;) After logging off, log back in and use ctrl+alt+del to close gtasa.exe.

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2013, 06:22:05 pm »
u'r lucky, sometimes, when i got that, i've to restart pc completly (ctrl+alt+del of alt+f4 does't work)
yeah same for me

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also, "yay" for windows xp, this is not an issue on 7 and onwards(probably even vista).

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2013, 08:22:04 pm »
u'r lucky, sometimes, when i got that, i've to restart pc completly (ctrl+alt+del of alt+f4 does't work)
yeah same for me
Hey, if you've got the "log out" button on your keyboard then use it - it's faster than restarting. In case it only shows a mouse pointer after you've pushed the button (on the keyboard), try to blind-find the button on the screen - it is there, it just doesn't show up on your display due to hung app. First time it might be hard to find it, but once you did it, you can forget about restarts ;) After logging off, log back in and use ctrl+alt+del to close gtasa.exe.

Yeah I do it this way Cypher

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2013, 09:11:52 pm »
Yeah I do it this way Cypher

wait so it does get stuck in windows 7?
for me and few others ive seen the "spash screen" of ctrl+alt+del fixes this.

Offline [MAF]Cromiell

Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2013, 09:16:27 pm »
When I have nothing to do other than restart I sometimes try to blind-aim proper proccess in manager and kill anything untill I kill gta_sa. Then I run explore.exe again (desktop proccess you are most likely to kill by an accident lol)

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2013, 09:30:54 pm »
Yeah I do it this way Cypher

wait so it does get stuck in windows 7?
for me and few others ive seen the "spash screen" of ctrl+alt+del fixes this.

my samp does freeze sometimes.. then I can ctrl+alt+del into task manager.. and I can only see my mouse while it's on the task manager pop up (or the other 2 pop-ups afterwards).. after that I have to click 'end' somewhere in the middle of my screen and then 'cancel' all by guess.

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2013, 09:11:06 am »
Yeah I do it this way Cypher

wait so it does get stuck in windows 7?
for me and few others ive seen the "spash screen" of ctrl+alt+del fixes this.

my samp does freeze sometimes.. then I can ctrl+alt+del into task manager.. and I can only see my mouse while it's on the task manager pop up (or the other 2 pop-ups afterwards).. after that I have to click 'end' somewhere in the middle of my screen and then 'cancel' all by guess.

pressing alt+tab until you are focused on the task manager shows me the window correctly

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2013, 09:46:57 am »
it shows the window correctly, but outside the window I can't find my mouse lol

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2013, 11:02:35 am »
you should see it when the mouse is on top of the maximized window

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2013, 11:23:21 am »
Yeah that's the only time I see it the rest of the screen is black, when the mouse is there.. you can't see it

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2013, 12:51:56 pm »
Sorry for double post

We're having game freezes again, I can't figure out why it happens.. but it's for sure between races (in the car showroom) and also after finish.. happend just now, maybe you have logs to check.. 14.44-14.50 (3 game freezes) Amsterdam Time.

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Re: Game lobby freeze
« Reply #27 on: September 12, 2013, 01:11:57 pm »
I got a freeze yesterday when i type /race lol