[donB]

Hey guys,

Well, I've recently encountered a problem while playing samp. After playing samp (in fact gta_sa.exe) for sometime(say 30-40 mins), my game starts to hang heavily. The CPU Usage shows 100%. When I end the gta_sa.exe process, the CPU Usage stays high from then and my windows starts to hang! The problem gets temporarily solved by restarting the laptop.

For now, I'm on my laptop (after the restart) for few hours, but there seems to be NO high CPU Usage issues. The moment I start again with samp, the problem would start after sometime and that's why I'm suspicious with the gta_sa.exe process.

PS: Re-installed SA-MP & GTA SA.

Any Ideas? Please be genuine.

Thanks.

[Vince]

This may sound weird, but what brand is your laptop? My sis had a HP laptop computer which would use 100% cpu at all times for no particular reason, causing complete freeze ups and all kinds of other problems.

[donB]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vince This may sound weird, but what brand is your laptop? My sis had a HP laptop computer which would use 100% cpu at all times for no particular reason, causing complete freeze ups and all kinds of other problems.

Oh yeah, my laptop configuration:

Dell Latitude D820
1 GB RAM
OS: Win XP Pro (5.1, Build 2600)
256MB Intel Chipset Graphics

[Haydn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by donB Oh yeah, my laptop configuration: Dell Latitude D820 1 GB RAM OS: Win XP Pro (5.1, Build 2600) 256MB Intel Chipset Graphics

Explains some problems. The intel graphics

[Kevin_William]

You can still run it on an intel graphics, but make sure you put your settings to low.

[Norn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haydn Explains some problems. The intel graphics

Not the issue I ran on the exact same specs maybe even less for years.

[donB]

Well, I understand, but I never had such a problem for last 2 years. I'm facing this one since a week or so.
Any clue?

Edit:
Well, I finally started playing samp, but then my game crashed after 15-20 mins of play.
This is the error report:

Code:

SA-MP 0.3c-R3
Exception At Address: 0x02519798

Registers:
EAX: 0x00000078	EBX: 0xFFFFFFFF	ECX: 0x00000000	EDX: 0x000000ED
ESI: 0x080926F0	EDI: 0x00000000	EBP: 0x0023FCF0	ESP: 0x0023FCE8
EFLAGS: 0x00210206

Stack:
+0000: 0x00000078   0x02542BB4   0x0023FD50   0x02516CE3
+0010: 0x00000048   0x000000ED   0x080926F0   0x0248633F
+0020: 0x080916C0   0x000001FF   0x00000000   0x4FE659DD
+0030: 0x00000000   0x02480000   0x0248D694   0x03DBA1B0
+0040: 0xFFFFFFFF   0x00000000   0x080916C0   0x000001FF
+0050: 0x0023FD24   0x0023F90C   0x0023FD84   0x0251F4A4
+0060: 0x0253BCA8   0x00000001   0x0023FD94   0x02487347
+0070: 0x0000001A   0x03DBA1B0   0x00000000   0x00000001
+0080: 0x02542167   0x00000000   0x080B7BD8   0x00000000
+0090: 0x03DBA1B0   0x0023FD58   0x0023F90C   0x0023FFB0
+00A0: 0x0251F4A4   0x0253B868   0xFFFFFFFF   0x77D50554
+00B0: 0x026D264D   0x00000001   0x026C6574   0x0251DAD9
+00C0: 0x0000001A   0x00000001   0x77D50554   0x0023FDC8
+00D0: 0x00000000   0x80022101   0x00B6F028   0x00000000
+00E0: 0x0000001A   0x00000001   0x00000000   0x0053EB17
+00F0: 0x44200000   0x43C80000   0x0053ECC2   0x00000001
+0100: 0x00619B71   0x0000001A   0x00000001   0x00000001
+0110: 0x0000000A   0x00748DA0   0x0000001A   0x00000001
+0120: 0x7C80B529   0x00000000   0x0023FFC0   0x7FFD8000
+0130: 0x01260000   0x4230CEDC   0x002627F0   0x00000008
+0140: 0x00000100   0x00000008   0x00000102   0x44200000
+0150: 0x43C80000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000500
+0160: 0x00000320   0x00000000   0x00000DFB   0x0086044A
+0170: 0x00000200   0x00000000   0x01900280   0x0167100B
+0180: 0x00000280   0x00000190   0x0000002C   0x00000000
+0190: 0x7FFD8000   0x0023FFB0   0x00825EA4   0x00887E20
+01A0: 0xFFFFFFFF   0x0023FE70   0x00835342   0x00000065
+01B0: 0x0023FFC0   0x008246F1   0x00400000   0x00000000
+01C0: 0x015823DD   0x0000000A   0x00000094   0x00000005
+01D0: 0x00000001   0x00000A28   0x00000002   0x76726553
+01E0: 0x20656369   0x6B636150   0xF6003220   0xF737BED0
+01F0: 0xF737BEEE   0x00000009   0xF64CA572   0xA8E4EBDC
+0200: 0x00000009   0x0000001F   0x857FA888   0xFFDFF540
+0210: 0x80544B83   0xFFFFFFFF   0x00000246   0x8054499B
+0220: 0xA8E4EC28   0x857FA888   0xFFDFF120   0x857FAA24
+0230: 0x80502B4D   0x857FA8F8   0x857FA888   0x804FAD80
+0240: 0x857FA9F4   0x857FA888   0x857FA8BC   0xF649A0B2
+0250: 0x8064182A   0x86A1FD40   0x00824588   0x00000000
+0260: 0x0013F5BC   0x7FFD8000   0xC0000005   0x00000005
+0270: 0x015823DD   0x00000044   0x01584AD0   0x01584AE0

SCM Op: 0x52C, lDbg: 0

Game Version: US 1.0

State Information: Ped Context: 0
P0 (0,0) P1 (0,0) P2 (0,0) P3 (0,0) 
P4 (0,0) P5 (0,0) P6 (0,0) P7 (0,0) 
P8 (160,0) P9 (0,0) P10 (0,0) P11 (0,0) 
P12 (0,0) P13 (0,0) P14 (0,0) P15 (0,0) 
P16 (0,0) P17 (0,0) P18 (0,0) P20 (0,0) P21 (0,0) P22 (0,0) P23 (0,0) 
P24 (0,0) P25 (0,0) P26 (0,0) P27 (0,0) 
P28 (0,0) P29 (45,0) P30 (0,0) P31 (0,0) 
P32 (0,0) P33 (0,0) P34 (0,0) P35 (0,0) 
P36 (0,0) P37 (0,0) P38 (0,0) P39 (0,0) 
P40 (0,0) P41 (0,0) P42 (0,0) P43 (0,0) 
P44 (0,0) P45 (0,0) P46 (0,0) P47 (0,0) 
P48 (45,0) P49 (0,0) P50 (0,0) P51 (0,0) 
P52 (0,0) P53 (209,723) P54 (0,0) P55 (0,0) 
P56 (0,0) P57 (0,0) P59 (0,0) 
P60 (0,0) P61 (0,0) P62 (0,0) P63 (0,0) 
P65 (0,0) P66 (0,0) P67 (45,0) 
P68 (0,0) P69 (0,0) P70 (0,0) P71 (0,0) 
P72 (45,0) P73 (0,0) P74 (209,11) P75 (45,0) 
P76 (0,0) P77 (0,0) P80 (45,0) P81 (45,0) P82 (0,0) P83 (45,0) 
P84 (45,0) P86 (0,0) P87 (0,0) 
P88 (0,0) P89 (0,0) P90 (45,0) P91 (0,0) 
P92 (45,0) P93 (0,0) P94 (0,0) P95 (209,435) 
P96 (0,0) P97 (0,0) P98 (0,0) P99 (0,0) 
P100 (0,0) P102 (0,0) P103 (0,0) 
P104 (45,0) P106 (0,0) P107 (209,561) 
P111 (0,0) 
P115 (0,0)

[playbox12]

A CPU hanging on 100 percent usally indicates a virus or some serious damage to the CPU (usally caused by overheating). I would suggest you take it to a computer store, theres not much we can do from here, usally they can pinpoint the problem, if you don't want to pay just ask them if they could take a quick look, then atleast you know what the problem is.

[donB]

Yes, my laptop heats up bad. Strangely, the hanging problem never occurred before, even though it used to heat up.
Anyway, I'll consult Dell Support.

[playbox12]

Probally alot of dust built up inside, you could open it up yourself and carefully remove it (I use a vacum cleaner lots of people would not suggest it, but it does the trick).