Patch Beta 2 - v15866 BUG REPORTS

[mazex]

Reposting a mail I sent to Ilya if anoyone gets the same... Have not included the two files I talk about but one is a hex-dump and the other a "half" -jpeg of a ME 109 with a Hungarian (or Italian?) tailplane in green/white/red...

Hi!

Reported the bug with the explosion before (that everyone seems to
get). Now I tried online and joined the Repka "Isles of Doom" server.
Took off in a Spitfire IIA (all was fine - love the new sounds - the
only problem was intermittent "lockups" every other minute), shot up
one ME 109 and a G50 and then chased another ME 109 that smoked badly
until the ammo was finito... Noticed two 109:s trailing me and went
for my home base zig zagging back. I then realized they where catching
up and turn hard for a couple of turns - lost one of them and was
getting into firing position of the other (him not knowing I was out
of ammo ). My session may have been 10-12 minutes old by this time
when the game just froze with the engine sound still on... Had to
"CTRL+ALT+DEL" to desktop and then kill the exe...

I then looked for a dmp-file but found no new... Decided that the
dumping process may be on some background thread and then 3-4 minutes
later a dump file appeared that I have enclosed... So - what more did
I notice of interest? In my cache folder I can find a number of
.dds-files and .jpg files. Both the .dds-files and the .jpg-files
contain what looks like crappy online skins. The interesting part is
that a number of them are empty, but the last one of them (sorting in
creation time) is from when I think the game crashed - and it looks
weird (half). I enclose that one to. And in the folder there is also a
.bmp-file called "picture.bmp" that seems to contain the same crappy
skin, but it's not "half" and has a size of 12 mb (will not fill your
mailbox with that - but its the same skin). When the game crashed I
was just catching up an ME 109 that may have had that skin for the
most detailed LOD-level? Just guessing.

So - may the intermittent "locking" every other minute be when I got
the other skins, and the crash when it tried to use the "half" skin
when I got close to that 109? I sure hope it did not download that
12Mb file from the server cause that could look up badly... Before I
cleaned my cache file in preparation for todays patch I found a 50Mb
bmp-file (!!!) with the same name (picture.bmp) that contained another
crappy skin with some naked chick. Obviously a user skin downloaded
from some server for an online battle.

It would be nice with a switch to disable "user skins" even if they
are not the cause for the online stuttering - but I have read many
others in previous patched that have complained over stuttering when
new users join multi player games...

My hardware and software:

CPU: Intel i7 2600k @ 4.5 Ghz
GPU: Asus GTX580 Direct CU II with the latest beta drivers 285.38
Mother Board: Asus P8P67 Pro
Memory: G-Skill 8GB DDR3 1600 Mhz
Disks: Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS) + Raptor 150 (Steam/Games) + 1TB WD (Extra)
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-HX 750W
Sound card: Creative X-Fi Fatality Pro (PCI) with the latest 2.18.15 driver
OS: Windows 7 x64
TrackIR 4
Logitech G940 joystick

Good luck! /mazex at the 1C forums.