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Hi all, I just started playing shadowbane and every so often the shit will freeze up and I have to cold boot my pc. I was wondering if this was a bug (among others ive noticed) becuase of the lack of customer support as this is F2P now. also when I try to hit with my mele weapon on my vampire mage the mob will somtimes jump behind me and the whole fight looks weird cuz we both turn to face eachother but its still wierd. And while im at it does anyone have a guild I could possibly join cuz I really wanna go to the mainland.
Thanks in advance to whoever remotley gives a shit.
P.S anyone who says "yes its f2p now so deal with it" all I have to say is Anarchy Online is free and I play it and it dosnt have half the problems, but somtimes the sci-f isn't what I wanna do and I gots ta have mah fantasay.
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All SB servers are suffering from " top of the hour " lag. this is prolly what you're experiencing.
Everyday, at the top of every hour, there is a server freeze lasting from 3 seconds, all the way to 5 minutes ; Stray bullet Games says the issue is something to do with UBI's network. /shrug no idea myself. lately however the top of the hour lag has been fairly short in duration but still there all the same. Infact you can set your watch to it.
next time the server freezes, check the time.
Once you get the task manager, go to the process tab, find sb.exe, and click end task (you cant end task on the task list, thats the same as clicking close on the window, and if the game is not responding its too busy to close its window).
In these modern windows os's an application cannot make the computer freeze when it freezes. In earlier windows such as 98 any program can make your pc freeze since it uses primitive multitasking. in modern win os's, if an app freezes it gets lowered on the cpu time alloted to it and the pc keeps trucking on.
If your entire os freezes and you use win2k or greater, its most like a kernal mode failure, such as a device driver that freezes. In vista all drivers are user mode like your applications do, so this wont happen. To find out what device does the freezing, open your device manager and uninstall each device one at a time and reboot, then run the game. Keep cycling until you find the culprit.
If you findout what device does it, either leave it off forever, or update the drvers. If the new drivers are causing the crash, use 6 month old drivers. Nvidia releases bad new drivers sometimes.
The most common device drivers to crash are tv tuners, printers, sound, and graphics.