Workaround for crashing on map load with ATI Catalyst

by eihrul on 02/20/2010 06:22, 14 messages, last message: 07/02/2010 03:41, 5268 views, last view: 04/16/2024 16:24

After some investigating I managed to track down a nasty bug in ATI Catalyst on all operating systems that was the cause of Sauerbraten crashing when loading maps or on multiplayer connects. The temporary workaround for Trooper edition is to put the following in your autoexec.cfg:

oqdynent 0

I have put a much more invasive fix in SVN/next edition, so that this shouldn't be necessary in the future, and I have also reported the bug to ATI, but god only knows if or when they will respond to a bug submitted by an indie dev.

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#1: solution

by tomekgno on 02/27/2010 23:46

this solution seems to work for me :), thanks

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#2: ..

by Maikolzor on 03/02/2010 20:15

How does it work when I type it in autoexec.cfg it says unknown command.

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#3: Re: ..

by Maikolzor on 03/02/2010 20:47, refers to #2

And i still get a error regarding Win32

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#4: ..

by storma on 03/07/2010 06:16

It works for me. :) Thank you.

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#5: Re: OQDYNENT

by MeatROme on 03/13/2010 21:15, refers to #2

typo?
Try copy/paste ;-)

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#6: ..

by areaone92 on 04/07/2010 15:24

i have no autoexec.cfg?!
were can i find it?

there is no other .cfg,just the server-init...?!

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#7: Re: ..

by eihrul on 04/07/2010 16:02, refers to #6

Create a text file named autoexec.cfg and put it in there.

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#8: Re: ..

by eihrul on 04/07/2010 16:04, refers to #7

Alternatively, if you can't figure out how to create the autoexec.cfg file with notepad... Then you can try in Sauer, go Options -> autoexec.cfg, add in the fix, and then hit the save button. Finally, exit Sauer and restart.

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#9: Re: ..

by areaone92 on 04/08/2010 11:51, refers to #8

yeeehaaa :)

it works :) thank you so much! :-* xD

i was so irritated because my autexe was deleted and i dont know why but yet it works fine ! :)

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#10: Works for me too!

by mauromol on 05/26/2010 14:37

I was getting crazy by trying every Catalyst from 10.4 downto 10.2 with no success. Maybe the problem has been introducted in 9.12 with the added support for OpenGL 3.2 extension? It didn\'t happen with Catalyst 8.10! However performance with the latest Catalysts is much better (when the game doesn\'t freeze and/or when the VPU recover lets you restore the video card and play for a while).

So now I can use the latest drivers without freezes! :-)

I hope ATI will fix this soon. What does the \"oqdynent 0\" option do?

Please note that if I entered it in Sauerbraten (Options | autoexec.cfg) it didn\'t work (\"unknown command\"), although I had written it correctly. I had to manually edit autoexec.cfg file to make it work. It seems that entering the command in Sauerbraten makes the autoexec.cfg file contain that command preceded by some spaces... and this seems to be causing the \"unknown command\" error message.

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#11: Re: Works for me too!

by eihrul on 05/26/2010 20:48, refers to #10

It turns off hardware occlusion of player models. This is sort of bad to do in general, but it is better than causing the entire OS to crash instead.

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#12: it works!

by {Ghost}Hadi5 on 06/30/2010 04:05

I'm using linux mint 9 on my asus 1201t netbook and it has the ati catalyst driver installed. I tried this and it worked perfectly. What i did was create a file called autoexec.cfg in my saurbraten folder and copied and pasted your line into it. Thanks so much for the help, cant wait for the next release!

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#13: Re: it works!

by eihrul on 06/30/2010 06:46, refers to #12

I was not aware they started making netbooks with AMD Neons yet, but apparently they do. That is an interesting beast you have.

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#14: Beastly netbook

by {Ghost}Hadi5 on 07/02/2010 03:41

Haha yeah thanks, it actually runs better than my desktop. it is a beastly netbook

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