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Echuu - Student  |
when i open radiant i get to choose the game and to click a few things i did this and a jedi with a sabrestaff appears after that it gets stuck what should i do?? -Echuu- _______________ KV Mechelen Proud owner of: Kauyon's 101th, Akkarin's 100th, Piccolo's 30th, Wicek's 1400th , Mindrith's 1500th, Sednox' 1935th Comment |
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Echuu - Student 
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ok ty guys ill make sure youll be the first to test it with me  ( and Deatchythe he designed the blueprint) -Echuu- _______________ KV Mechelen Proud owner of: Kauyon's 101th, Akkarin's 100th, Piccolo's 30th, Wicek's 1400th , Mindrith's 1500th, Sednox' 1935th Comment |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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Yes, that was exactly my point.  As I said in my earlier post, I was referring to the fact that the processor memory gets clogged up with the usage of programs and such, and it's not like you can just close every program running and re-open them, since your computer wouldn't be much to run them again. So a reboot would do this. I do agree that it needs more than rebooting. I had similar problems with GTKRadiant 1.4, but a reinstall fixed that. So if it doesn't work, I'd recommend reinstalling... This comment was edited by Setementor on Feb 10 2005 10:19pm. |
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El Vee For - Student 
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restarting does nothing to the registry. RAM is volatile, without electricity flowing through the chips it cannot retain data. When you restart, as opposed to shutting down, your Motherboard and RAM do not loose their power feed. Some motherboards continue to draw power from the power supply even when the operating system shut down is completed. Usually these type of boards have an LED on them to indicate that they are powered up. Completely removing power from your computer is the only guaranteed way to clear out MEMORY. Restarting your computer does what then? What it does is shut down all the services that your puter (Windows) is currently running then sends a command to your bios chip, on your motherboard to re-initiate POST (a built in test that initiates your drives and PCI devices like your sound card and USB ports) and boot sequence without killing power to the board (killing and restarting power to the board to quickly can cause surges, feedback, and eventually fry the board) the drives and peripherals (keyboards, mice, KVM IO's, scanners, printers what have you.) My suggestions include instructions to return the users operating system to the condidtion it was in before the Radiant install. To do this you have to remove the registry entries after uninstalling the software. Installing Radiant on top of itself, IE re-writing the same registry entries during the installshield process that windows uses, repopulating created folders may not solve a start up hang or error. In fact reinstalling Radiant on top of its self is likely to create another or the same error. Sete, your suggestion is an excellent starting point, but this problem is likely to be a little deeper since RAM is not only chips installed on the board but also data temporarily written to the hard disk called a page file. Even an application or program that requires 512MB of Ram will run on a 256MB machine, just very slowly. _______________ “Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.” |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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It doesn't clear everything in the registry, but your ram usage gets clogged up the longer your computer is on. I was referring to that, not saved page files and such in the registry. |
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El Vee For - Student
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Quote: Oh yeah, I just remembered that GTKRadiant starts with a picture of an NPC with a Saber Staff.  Well, GTKRadiant does require a lot of ram. Make sure you've got some free memory, ie. reboot, which will clear all of the useless stuff taking up your memory. Its good advice but not always true, restarting does not clear the contents of RAM, shutting down and disconnecting the power from your box does. I know this cuz I remove spyware from web-surfing cubicle dwellers all day long. Radiant can use massive resources check the min requirements and be sure your machine meets them. Look in the lower right hand corner, all those Icons are taking up memory, shut down the ones you don't need. Do you keep documents or anything at on your local desktop. ITEMS ON YOUR DESKTOP TAKE UP RAM!!! If it persists ctrl-alt-del bring up the task manager and then start Radiant and watch the manager to see if it max's out your RAM, then you know it is your RAM and you are no longer guessing. If yer RAM isn't filling up and yer still hanging you may want to remove and reseat your RAM stick/s. Lastly, there are literally 1.7 million ways that an install can get screwed up and Radiant is no exception. Download regcleaner or an equivalent GUI (graphical user interface, like windows) registry editor then uninstall Radiant, remove every folder that radiant created, then run your registry editor and remove every reference to Radiant you can find. Restart your machine and double check that all your deleting took, this includes removing the items in your recycle bin. Then follow the instructions in RichDiesels mapping tut to re-install Radiant. GL and let us know how it goes, Radiant gave me some trouble the first time I installed it, admittedly I didn't follow the instructions the first time either. When all else fails RTFM (read the freakin manual) _______________ “Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.” This comment was edited by El Vee For on Feb 10 2005 04:38pm. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Oh yeah, I just remembered that GTKRadiant starts with a picture of an NPC with a Saber Staff. Well, GTKRadiant does require a lot of ram. Make sure you've got some free memory, ie. reboot, which will clear all of the useless stuff taking up your memory. |
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ozzcoz - Cosplay Nerd 
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I think he means he selected which game he wants to map for, and then the splash startup screen came up, but Radiant didn't initialise, it just froze there. This happened to me on my old laptop, and I never worked out how to fix it, I just bought a new computer and it worked. Might be a graphics card problem though, I really don't know. _______________ A wizard did it. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Could you be more specific? You opened GTKRadiant, mapped a room with an NPC which uses a Saber Staff, or something like that, right? It would help us to answer the question if we knew this. Thanks. |
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