December 20, 200817 yr Alright, so this is one I've had trouble solving on my own, and I can't seem to pinpoint the problem. Whenever I play RuneScape, I have the option of choosing either Standard or HD mode. Since it's a laptop, I don't like it overheating too much, so I select Standard. Of course, there are certain times when I'd have loved to have HD (namely during the last leg of While Guthix Sleeps). Anyway, on to the problem. Whenever I run HD, after a random period of time, my browser/JVM will absolutely crash, no warning, no mercy. It won't crash, no matter how long I play on Standard detail, yet it will happily die if I cross that threshold. I *do* get little crash error text files with them; if anyone can or wants to decipher them with me, let me know and I'll zip 'em up for you. :) Specs: Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Kernel 2.6.27-7 generic java version "1.6.0_11" Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57, runs at variable speeds (between 800MHz and 1.9GHz, nominally runs at 1.9GHz when playing RS) Graphics Card: GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M, 512MB RAM, 350MHz GPU frequency Browser: Mozilla Prism; effectively a miniature version of Firefox, geared to only see one site on the Internet (and this site is RuneScape). If you haven't heard of or tried it, give it a whirl -- I noticed that its memory consumption after a few hours of gameplay was only 15.6MB, whereas Firefox was at easily 60MB and up. [Just note that I've tried this with Firefox and Epiphany, and it's produced the same results. I won't use Opera or Konqueror; the former is slow as sin to me, and the latter requires installing KDE libraries that I do not wish to install.] Alright, this one's puzzled me for months after HD was released. Let's see if a solution can be reached. Linux User/Enthusiast | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Stack Overflow Member | GIMP User...Alright, the Elf City update lured me back to RS over a year ago.
December 21, 200817 yr Author Try another browser? Like I said, I've tried Epiphany and Firefox (in addition to Prism). I've given Opera a shot, but it runs way too slow. What other browsers are there? Kazehakase? I've given that a whirl, with no success (lots of segfaults). Linux User/Enthusiast | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Stack Overflow Member | GIMP User...Alright, the Elf City update lured me back to RS over a year ago.
December 21, 200817 yr Try another browser? Like I said, I've tried Epiphany and Firefox (in addition to Prism). I've given Opera a shot, but it runs way too slow. What other browsers are there? Kazehakase? I've given that a whirl, with no success (lots of segfaults). What about IE? BR BR BR? HUEHUEHEUEHUE
December 21, 200817 yr Try another browser? Like I said, I've tried Epiphany and Firefox (in addition to Prism). I've given Opera a shot, but it runs way too slow. What other browsers are there? Kazehakase? I've given that a whirl, with no success (lots of segfaults). What about IE? Doesn't exist anymore for *nix. Here's a list for you makoto... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we ... Unix/Linux J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff moviesJe trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vieJe ne me reconnais plus dans les gensJe suis juste un cas désespérantEt comme personne ne viendra me réclamerJe terminerai comme un objet retrouvé
December 21, 200817 yr Try another browser? Like I said, I've tried Epiphany and Firefox (in addition to Prism). I've given Opera a shot, but it runs way too slow. What other browsers are there? Kazehakase? I've given that a whirl, with no success (lots of segfaults). What about IE? He is in a linux system unless you run wine there in no internet explorer. Thank god.
December 22, 200817 yr Author Looking at the list, I can't guarantee that any of these will work better or worse with RSHD. If they all use similar libraries (i.e. Firefox -> Iceweasel), then their bearing on the Java VM wouldn't mean much at all. I've also determined that it's not a browser-specific problem, since the crashes occur either at random during gameplay, or when I try to go back to the home page from RSHD. Again, I don't think it's a browser problem. Any other thoughts out there? [Note] Linux User/Enthusiast | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Stack Overflow Member | GIMP User...Alright, the Elf City update lured me back to RS over a year ago.
December 23, 200817 yr Back a while ago, I think there was a problem with Linux running RSHD because of java. Did that get fixed yet? I was going to eat hot dogs for dinner tonight. I think I will settle for cereal. OPEN WIDE HERE COMES THE HELICOPTER.
December 23, 200817 yr Author Back a while ago, I think there was a problem with Linux running RSHD because of java. Did that get fixed yet? The problem only pertained to RSHD fullscreen not working properly, due to some issue with the way the X server and Java interacted. That was fixed in later Java releases. Linux User/Enthusiast | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Stack Overflow Member | GIMP User...Alright, the Elf City update lured me back to RS over a year ago.
December 25, 200817 yr I had the same problem as you. There is a bug in version 1.6. Just remove the sun-java6-plugin package and install the sun-java5-plugin in synaptic.
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