Small hiccups every few seconds

[jelmew]

Hi All,

I am using the linux 64 bits variant. First I thought my current problem was due to the mods, but this problem recreates itself without mods.

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When playing the game, every few seconds the game has a smal hiccup, while the music keeps playing. This doesn't always happen immediately. Sometimes it is immediately, sometimes after half an hour , but when it happens it gets progressively worse, forcing me to restart the game and hoping the problem doesn't return immediately There seem to be no specific triggers ingame.

Now for my technical information:

OS: Linux 3.17 Ubuntu 14.10 64bit

CPU: Intel® Core i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8)

RAM: 7867

GPU: GeForce 840M/PCIe/SSE2 (2048MB)

SM: 30 (OpenGL 4.4 [4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.76])

RT Formats: ARGB32, Depth, ARGBHalf, RGB565, ARGB4444, ARGB1555, Default, DefaultHDR, ARGBFloat, RGFloat, RGHalf, RFloat, RHalf, R8

NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.76

Greetigs,

Jelmew

[cantab]

I've had this issue too, mentioned here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/111495-Can-anything-be-done-about-the-every-few-second-stutter

Some mods can worsen it, in particular Kerbal Engineer if it's calculating delta-V, but it shows up even in the stock game as you found.

[jelmew]

Hi,

Looking at your thread, it seems the opposite of that. The sound keeps playing, it is just the game that stutters. No-one has any clue?

Greetings,

Jelmer

[Bolche]

I had a similar issue and, looking at dmesg I saw that the GPU (Radeon) was restarting every few seconds and freezing the scene.

On my case, the problem was with the driver. Check you dmesg for error messages

[John FX]

It might be unity's garbage collection. I have had issues with that in the past. Not much to be done about it if it is though.