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Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
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Author:  Pius [ Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
Well as the topic says, an angel fired that green ball at me and it crashed my game and locked up my pc, required a system restart. It wouldn't let me tab out of UT, window key to bring up my desktop or anything, just froze. Necrosis was there, I think the map was A-something... Anywho, now you know.
Author:  nOs*Rurik [ Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
Well, i didn't know angels were that powerful :lol:
Author:  nOs*Wildcard [ Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
Angels are famous for crashing games! They are just that powerfull. They usualy will crash your game when they fire the Fiery slow moving death ball the red and orange one

Image

This one emits a shit ton of light! That's the problem. At Post Office it lights up the whole office area you can even see a bit of the light thru the ceiling tiles! Problem with that is Unreal Tournament on some maps gets really pissed off when too many surfaces in a map are lit up at once and instead of when a certain amount of surfaces are lit stop or logging a warning, it think it will be more awesome just to crash.

Angels and everything else and Max's use to crash players on a regular basis almost every time you encounter one in some maps! However long while ago I put in a safeguard so the light would not light up too many surfaces.. it was not perfect but it reduced the crashes BIG TIME to the point where its a rare even.

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in the Green balls code is this

simulated function BeginState()
{
LightRadius = default.LightRadius*u4egauntlet(Level.Game).SafeLightScale;
Velocity = vector(Rotation) * speed;
rring=spawn(class'BFGRotRing',self);
SetTimer(0.2,true);
}
}

However I must have slipped up because it seems thats missing from the Solar Blast orange red sun death ball thing

function LightStart()
{
LightType=LT_Steady;
LightBrightness=255;
LightSaturation=255;
LightRadius=255; bFade=true;
}

That will fill the map up with game crashing light!

The solution is to add the safe light scaling to the other lights too.
includeing the purple flash the gates make when there destroyed I'm not sure if that has it either

In the meantime to all players that are having a really hard time you can turn Dynamic Lighting off in options that will get rid of the light but I would only do that temporarely and under extreme conditions like your crashing several times in a game non stop


Instead of shutting down your PC, If your PC is locked up by UT or task manager opens up behind UT and you just see it flashing thru

Press Windows+L

that will lock the computer which will force UT to minimize giving you control of your pc again just log in and then use taskmanager to terminate ut
Author:  Necrosis MHS [ Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
And THAT is why you're called the Admin Wizard!
Author:  nOs*Grandpa [ Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
Yes the ADMIN WIZER
Author:  Pius [ Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
yeah, I tried locking my PC too...didn't work.
It was definitely the BFGRotRing (Big Fuckin Gun Rotating Ring, Me likey) and it was in a place on the map where I only had 5 or 6 surfaces in view. There was a ramp to my left (of which I could only see the side of, the flat wall), 3 walls to my right (2 at a 45 degree angle to me and one parallel to me) and the floor and ceiling.
Not sure why my game locked up, but I figured I'd report it all the same as it's never happened to me before on that server. :roll:
Author:  Necrosis MHS [ Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Angel Crashed my game, locked up my pc
Well, I guess it's possible that Angel just REALLY hated you. Like specifically. Ha ha ha!
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