Need help with a test version of Aces High

[Pyro]

HT's been working on a crash bug that some people are getting and thinks he has it fixed.  He wants more people to try it out before we ship it.  It should either run or not run on your system.  If you've been getting crashes, that should be fixed now and maybe run smoother.  Even if you weren't getting any crashes, we'd appreciate knowing if this test version runs on your machine successfully.

To test, just download the following link directly into your \HiTech Creations\Aces High folder and run the file acestest.exe.

http://downloads1.hitechcreations.com/acestest.exe


This also fixes the following:

Instrument panel glass faces now display correctly with shaders.

Fixed an issue causing gunsight glass to disappear on some planes.

Fixed a shading issue that made the Flakpanzer gun reflect light incorrectly.

Fixed an issue with WW1 planes that could cause icons to disappear from certain viewing angles.

Bomber drones now have their bump mapping  effects toggled on and off when you toggle bump mapping for yourself.

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doesn't seem to want to download for me

I clicked on it, just opened a new tab...then I tried saving link....but its not doing anything.

[DaCoon]

doesn't seem to want to download for me

I clicked on it, just opened a new tab...then I tried saving link....but its not doing anything.

same here

[ink]

never mind just took forever to start

same here

I just let it load up eventually it started

[DaCoon]

Thx ink

[Pyro]

Our download server is acting up.  I moved it to a different one and changed the link.  It should download fine now.

[FLS]

Works for me. No problems, gauge glass looks much better and gunsight glass is fixed. I made sure I have bump mapping on this time. 

[DaCoon]

No issues on my machine.... 

[ink]

with the new update(not this test)  I noticed when I drop my DT my entire gauges would change color, not change color but get over all lighter....Ill be flying on the test  through out the day, I was getting crashes hopefully this will fix



I must say HTC you guys 

[lengro]

Looking good - runs fine here. Can confirm gunsight glass is fixed in Hellcat.

[AKP]

Ran it and no issues.  I did however notice about a 5 - 10 FPS drop when the clipboard map is up while I am flying or driving.  4 others who were not running this version said same.  I have never noticed it before.  But I almost always have the clipboard up in my lower right corner when playing.

[bustr]

The only problem I had was with frame rates on 3 aircraft. The B29, Mossi6 and Me262.

One of my tests for new releases is to spawn offline, F3 and from behind the aircraft rapidly hit the Num7 and Num9 keys to see what happens to the FPS. When I was still in cockpit view these three would drop to 33-42. When I was in F3 performing the test they would drop to 32. After 30 minutes of repeating this with other fighters and bombers I returned to the first three. They now maintained 57-59 when I rapidly hit the Num7/Num9 keys.

From behind the Mossi6 there is a black rapidly flickering line under the rudder on the concrete.

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[Greebo]

I tried the test version. It seemed the same as the normal version with regard to smoothness, an occasional slight hesitation here and there but nothing serious. No crashes, but then I've only had those in NDI Isles' TT area since 2.27 came out.

[ink]

no crashes, but I was getting pauses which I don't normally get...and I got a message I never saw before..."ran out of memory consider dropping the distance for ground....." something like that

everything is off except for
detail terrain
detail water
water reflections
bump mapping mine and other planes


I am running windows 7 32bit
a 1gig MSI 4830
 AMD athlon duel core 5600 2.9 GHZ
4 gig of ram

[Easyscor]

Still no crashes, but I'm not able to give it a through run through at this time.