what a joke

[louisv]

Originally Posted by tk471138

so i just made a new mission, using the big map, just a simple tank attack mission. ran it from the mission builder as the single mission menu wont work...mission ran fine nothing really wrong with anything including the sounds...they arent great but it works....ok it works for a short while....another bug for the list would be the land turning black when i go really close to the ground and i have to climb about 5oo meter for it to go away...had a fun mission regardless of that annoying but rather harmless bug, flak that i had placed on the ground had killled me, and i closed the mission, the game had some sorta run time error and the program closed it self...i opened it again went to mission builder to open the map i just played, and i get the same or similar error and it closes the program...hope this helps you guy to fix it...i tried to be as detailed as possible...

That sounds like a memory problem. How much of it do you have on the GPU and your main RAM...At what settings are you playing the game ?

If you have less than 4GB and/or less than 1GB on the GPU and you use high settings or more (especially textures on original), then that would be a possibility.

[ATAG_Doc]

I'm curious as to what your system specs are.

[tk471138]

well part of the problem is i use dx9 and win xp 32bit, i have heard that would help

my settings
1920x1080 monitors native res
full screen set to ON
model detail high
building " low
land " med
forest very low
vis effect med
texture quality original (dont know what this is original vs high medium and low, i must have missed the memo that explained it)
AA off
epilepsy off
ssao unchecked
vsync unchecked
damage decals medium
building amount low
land shading medium
grass and shadows box not selected (off)
roads on

specs
amd athlon 64 x2 6400+ 3200 mhz am2 on asus m2nsli delux
500watt psu antec
3.37 gb ram, pc2-5300 (4 G installed, again im on 32 bit win xp sp3, been meaning to ask on asus forum how others with my board have done with getting win 7 and getting drivers and compatibility and so on)
evga nvidia geforce gts 450 1gb (got it for free from evga)


obviously not much is worth upgrading, i might as well start out with new motherboard capable of higher speed ram and newer CPU, probably when i get out of college in a year. my system should be adequate to play the game i would imagine.



I can play the game fine especially on the smaller maps, and not over the cities...and it was indeed good fun once i realized i should give it another go and use my own little created missions, i was in fact quite pleased that i could finally shelve 1946 for the time being. Its not playing the game that seems to be ruined although artifacts and other such things tend to appear, i can live with those while they fix things. Its when i say open a map up on the mission builder that it screws up or when i press single missions nothing appears, i press altf4 and the little "close program, yes/now box comes up, and it goes to half of what single missions window should have. What is not displayed is the left side which is the list of missions,a random mission is selected...it dosent have much to do with my system im pretty sure the taxing part is playing the game not transitioning between menus...

[jayrc]

try lowering your resolution and change your textures to med for now till they patch it some more

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by jayrc

need to know your system specs if you want any help, are you running the game in dx9, what operating system?

Exactly. The sim has more problems when running in windows XP.

In my case, i have a two year old PC (i7 920 at stock 2.7 Ghz, Ati 4890 1GB, 3GB RAM) and it runs fine under win7 x64 on DX10 mode, using mostly medium settings at a 1680x1050 resolution.

I've had no random crashes, no CTDs, no problems at all in terms of stability and a solid 25-60 FPS (capped due to Vsync) depending on the terrain i'm flying over and regardless of amount of aircraft present for the most part, ever since the first couple of patches were applied. Heck, i don't even get the sound bug when flying online and my RAM and vRAM use is topped out pretty much the entire time when i'm flying.


As for the sound bug, the reason it takes so long is that they are not fixing only that bug, they are redoing the entire sound engine along with the samples from scratch.

I agree it's frustrating for some and many people have problems. I just don't think this is a majority like it was in the early days and it shows from the kind of bug reports we get: it went from a majority of "i can't run the sim at all in a stable manner" to "please fix gameplay feature X", which pretty much means the majority of people are actually flying.


I suppose in another 3-6 months we'll be having a blast, especially if they keep working on it at a similar pace. Until then, reading the technical guides and the FAQ threads can help people get some enjoyment out of it until further improvements are made.

[sorak]

Originally Posted by louisv

I had crashes, I had problems and there are workarounds for some, I still have crashes but I can play it. The problems described here are that the game does not start. I can play it, I do and its fun but it does have a slew of bugs as did Il-2. If you fly A10-C since the start, you know it took months to iron out the bugs. Just be patient, when a dev makes a new visual system, its always rough the first year.

I know all about the old IL-2 and other sims that have bugs at the start. I have full patients with this sim.. you have to.. and thats what I was saying in the first place.