295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups

Fal · 02-25-12, 07:17 PM

Running the game works fine first, but then suddenly I get colored boxes all over the screen. Next thing I know game stops, X doesn't get any input from keyboard. When SSHing to computer I see NVRM Xid -messages in dmesg and Xorg has gone [mi] EQ overflowing.. Won't happen in any other game I play and judging from the HoN console log it was doing something related to shaders. Killing things doesn't work, only thing I can do is reboot. Sometimes even that doesn't work as intended and have to force computer down.

It's driving me crazy since this occurs usually quite randomly (though found a surefire way to cause it by increasing the graphics settings) and I can never know if it'll crash or not.

Downgrading to 290.10 doesn't actually help with the problem.. took a while longer before the crash, but it still happened.

Running ArchLinux with kernel 3.2.6, Xorg 1.11.4

artem · 02-26-12, 10:38 AM

Do you have any Logitech USB devices?

Fal · 02-26-12, 02:47 PM

None Logitech's. Mouse is made by Microsoft, no other USB devices plugged in.

Fal · 02-27-12, 05:51 AM

Took a while to reproduce the problem once again and made nvidia bug report.

sandipt · 02-28-12, 01:09 AM

Please let us know reproduction steps.

Fal · 02-28-12, 01:57 AM

Start the computer, start heroes of newerth, join a game, play 5-20 minutes -> crash. Sometimes it happens in seconds after starting the game.

Occasionaly if I'm fast enough I can kill HoN and the EQ overflow doesn't happen, so it is something that is going on between the game and nvidia driver.

02-25-12, 07:17 PM	#1
Fal Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 4	295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups Running the game works fine first, but then suddenly I get colored boxes all over the screen. Next thing I know game stops, X doesn't get any input from keyboard. When SSHing to computer I see NVRM Xid -messages in dmesg and Xorg has gone [mi] EQ overflowing.. Won't happen in any other game I play and judging from the HoN console log it was doing something related to shaders. Killing things doesn't work, only thing I can do is reboot. Sometimes even that doesn't work as intended and have to force computer down. It's driving me crazy since this occurs usually quite randomly (though found a surefire way to cause it by increasing the graphics settings) and I can never know if it'll crash or not. Downgrading to 290.10 doesn't actually help with the problem.. took a while longer before the crash, but it still happened. Running ArchLinux with kernel 3.2.6, Xorg 1.11.4

02-26-12, 10:38 AM	#2
artem Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 678	Re: 295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups Do you have any Logitech USB devices?

02-26-12, 02:47 PM	#3
Fal Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 4	Re: 295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups None Logitech's. Mouse is made by Microsoft, no other USB devices plugged in.

02-28-12, 01:09 AM	#5
sandipt NVIDIA Corporation Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 259	Re: 295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups Please let us know reproduction steps.

02-28-12, 01:57 AM	#6
Fal Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 4	Re: 295.20 + Heroes Of Newerth, GeForce 8800 GT lockups Start the computer, start heroes of newerth, join a game, play 5-20 minutes -> crash. Sometimes it happens in seconds after starting the game. Occasionaly if I'm fast enough I can kill HoN and the EQ overflow doesn't happen, so it is something that is going on between the game and nvidia driver.