Not Responding

Dubya · 04-19-2007, 03:30 PM

I just bought the game last night and I am having trouble with the game not responding at times. When I had been trying out the game for a few days it would hang up (Not Respond) a few times when I was simming games. Now when I sim games after buying it the game hangs up for 5 minutes at a time after I sim a day.

I have 1 Gig of memory and my machine is only a couple of years old. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Should I turn off my Anti-Virus (Mcaffee) and see if that stops the hang ups?

Dubya

treedom · 04-19-2007, 03:40 PM

You can try that. Some other things you can do to speed things up is to defrag your hard drive and turn off the Windows Indexing Service on the drive you're running it from.

tysok · 04-19-2007, 03:43 PM

How big is the league, how many games would it be simming per day?
Also what speed is your processor?
I assume this is the first season of your league too?

Could be so many teams playing that it's taking a while to do all it has to, could be too many teams for your processor to do quickly as we'd like, and it will slow more as you get play more and more seasons (processor thing again).
For instance my old processor won't do anything within a reasonable time if I have more than just a standard MLB with 5 levels of minors... and it's quite slow after 25 seasons.

Sinclair · 04-19-2007, 03:43 PM

It has been reported that McAfee (and other anti-virus progs) can significantly hamper sim speed. The reason is because OOTP generates an enormous number of logfiles (game logs, boxscores, news articles, etc...) for any given day. Antivirus programs attempt to scan every new file that's created on the hard drive, so it goes through trying to catch and scan every logfile that OOTP is generating.

bababui · 04-19-2007, 03:50 PM

While all the above is good advice it doesnt answer the question of why OOTP needs max out a machine's RAM. This is the cause of the 'not responding' problem.

sporr · 04-20-2007, 08:40 AM

From other threads, it appears that ghost players will slow down sim time also. Do you have other programs running in the background while playing OOTP? If you go into task manager to the performance tab, what are your Commit Charge numbers?

billethius · 04-20-2007, 12:05 PM

I'd say the first things to try would be to make sure your anti-virus program and windows indexing ignore the \My Documents\Sports Interactive directory.

Nutlaw · 05-13-2007, 09:04 AM

Hi there, Dubya. I hope that you got your issue resolved. Since we haven't heard back from you on this issue in numerous weeks, I am going to assume that your problem is fixed and close this thread. If you have any further problems, please ask a moderator to re-open this thread. Thanks.

04-19-2007, 03:30 PM	#1
Dubya Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1	Not Responding I just bought the game last night and I am having trouble with the game not responding at times. When I had been trying out the game for a few days it would hang up (Not Respond) a few times when I was simming games. Now when I sim games after buying it the game hangs up for 5 minutes at a time after I sim a day. I have 1 Gig of memory and my machine is only a couple of years old. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Should I turn off my Anti-Virus (Mcaffee) and see if that stops the hang ups? Dubya

04-19-2007, 03:40 PM	#2
treedom Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Transylvania Posts: 2,900	You can try that. Some other things you can do to speed things up is to defrag your hard drive and turn off the Windows Indexing Service on the drive you're running it from. __________________ A rake and a roustabout.

04-19-2007, 03:43 PM	#3
tysok Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,925	How big is the league, how many games would it be simming per day? Also what speed is your processor? I assume this is the first season of your league too? Could be so many teams playing that it's taking a while to do all it has to, could be too many teams for your processor to do quickly as we'd like, and it will slow more as you get play more and more seasons (processor thing again). For instance my old processor won't do anything within a reasonable time if I have more than just a standard MLB with 5 levels of minors... and it's quite slow after 25 seasons. __________________ I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes! Jack Buck, September 17, 2001 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. I firmly believe that any man's finest hour... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. (Vince Lombardi) I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. (George S. Patton)

04-19-2007, 03:43 PM	#4
Sinclair Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 202	It has been reported that McAfee (and other anti-virus progs) can significantly hamper sim speed. The reason is because OOTP generates an enormous number of logfiles (game logs, boxscores, news articles, etc...) for any given day. Antivirus programs attempt to scan every new file that's created on the hard drive, so it goes through trying to catch and scan every logfile that OOTP is generating.

04-19-2007, 03:50 PM	#5
bababui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 14,147 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	While all the above is good advice it doesnt answer the question of why OOTP needs max out a machine's RAM. This is the cause of the 'not responding' problem.

04-20-2007, 08:40 AM	#6
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	From other threads, it appears that ghost players will slow down sim time also. Do you have other programs running in the background while playing OOTP? If you go into task manager to the performance tab, what are your Commit Charge numbers?

04-20-2007, 12:05 PM	#7
billethius All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 822	I'd say the first things to try would be to make sure your anti-virus program and windows indexing ignore the \My Documents\Sports Interactive directory.

05-13-2007, 09:04 AM	#8
Nutlaw Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,538	Hi there, Dubya. I hope that you got your issue resolved. Since we haven't heard back from you on this issue in numerous weeks, I am going to assume that your problem is fixed and close this thread. If you have any further problems, please ask a moderator to re-open this thread. Thanks.