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Feb 07, 2004 Darthmonkeyman link
When i exit the station everything freezes up and all i can do is watch as my ship goes into the void... not even the chat commands work so i can /explode... so all i can do is alt f4 and delete the character because if i log on again as that chara i am just floating and in the same situation i was in before... WHAT THE f*** is going on.. anyone have any insite?
Feb 10, 2004 Durgia link
thats umm wierd.

what is your platform info...does it always do this, or just sometimes. When did it start, did you change anything b4 it started(configs or files or anything?)
Feb 10, 2004 Urza link
usualy you can still open the consol (` <--- the thing about tab does it) and type /quit to fix this.

I've bugged the devs about it sinse day 1 but it never got fixed.
Feb 10, 2004 raybondo link
We can't duplicate it here unfortunately.
Feb 11, 2004 Urza link
so you at the office have never popped out of a station and had your controls lock so only the consol was accessable?
Feb 13, 2004 Darthmonkeyman link
no i can't even use the tab... imagine the keyboard and mouse just becoming unhooked....(no i did not unhook it)
Feb 13, 2004 raybondo link
The only thing that has happened to us like that is once in a very long while when we pop out of the station our view is really far behind where it's supposed to be and we can't do anything until the view catches up to where it's supposed to be.
Imagine having the camera be much further behind the ship when launching from the station. The camera then slowly moves forward through the station and then to the launch bay and then everything works normally. It's basically due to the game-time on the client not being synced with the game-time on the server.
Feb 14, 2004 roguelazer link
Oh, that's what it is? I get that all the time. I'll warp into a sector, the warp animation will end and my camera will come zooming in from way behind. The same effect can be gotten by pressing F2, then F3, then boosting for awhile, then pressing F3 again.
Feb 14, 2004 RelayeR link
I have had the "black screen of death" coming out of the station in 12 also but only once. I had to option/command + esc to quit the game...only option.

another (but maybe related) problem...

I get 4 or 5 of the "chimes" when I push the "leave station" button in 12...everything hangs and then releases like normal. It does it when I warp into 12 or 9 (sans chimes) also (both are the laggiest sectors for me).

I'm presuming this is the "game-time" sync problem you describe, Ray?
Feb 14, 2004 raybondo link
When you say 5 'chimes' you mean the sound repeats? If so, that's probably stuff loading from system memory to video memory when you leave the station I think.
Feb 14, 2004 RelayeR link
Yes...the sound repeats...like a broken record.

So, my 768 megs of DDR SDRAM and 64 megs of nVIDIA GeForce4 MX video ram are having that much of a problem sending stuff to my 17" plasma display set at 1440x900 while Vendetta is set at 1024x768 window mode?
Feb 15, 2004 raybondo link
blame it on crappy nvidia drivers? Maybe AGP is somehow disabled? I dunno.
Feb 16, 2004 RelayeR link
I reset my video to 1440x900 full screen and the problems completely disappeared. I guess it was a conversion problem. :)
Feb 17, 2004 Darthmonkeyman link
do any of you have any ideas on how to solve my prob?... (When i exit the station everything freezes up and all i can do is watch as my ship goes into the void... not even the chat commands work so i can /explode... so all i can do is alt f4 and delete the character because if i log on again as that chara i am just floating and in the same situation i was in before... WHAT THE f*** is going on.. anyone have any insite?,i can't even use the tab... imagine the keyboard and mouse just becoming unhooked....(no i did not unhook it)), i didn't change any of the settings.. it is the same as when i downloaded this game. but i cant unchange any settings cauz i cant do anything but press alt f4 and then close the program thru right clicking

edit: nevermind it is fixed now.. i had to completely purge vendetta from my system and then redownload everything but it work /me cheers:edit
Feb 21, 2004 snowboardaddict link
I had a problem like that today. I "/logoff"-ed in sector 16 and when I came back all the controls where dead except chat. I could see everything and chat, but the ship wouldn't move and f2 didn't work. I don't know if it was because the frigate was about to warp in or what, but I thought I'd report it.
Feb 22, 2004 Mufmaster link
I have a suggestion. When you first log on, DON'T, I repeat DON't be in the console mode when the sector finishes loading. This will cause only the console to work. I learned this the hard way. >.<
Feb 22, 2004 UncleDave link
Muf, it works fine for me. The console overlays the chat window, a simple tap'o'tilde sorts things out.
Mar 01, 2004 the flying banana link
EDIT:
nm. read the posts and err. i was wrong
Mar 05, 2004 UncleDave link
WAIT! I know the answer.

What Vendetta has done (it did this to me a while back) is reset ALL your key binds. None of your keys are bound to anything.

On the startup screen before you log on, choose options, keyboard, and reset to default. Problem solved :)
Mar 05, 2004 genka link
Ah, yes, but if it just unbound everything, you don't have a way to logout...