Ever since we went to Beta 44, I've had the problem that my engine cuts out intermittently.
I'm flying along, all of a sudden the engine sound changes from full throttle running to the coughing sound you hear when you cut the engine off, and the propellor instantly shuts down to a single-blade-visible crawl. This only lasts a second or two, then the engine restarts spontaneously, and runs on as if nothing happened.
Its exactly as if it was a real engine with ***** in its neck
I haven't posted about it until now, because I wanted to try to establish some pattern or connection, plus try the obvious. Yes, I tried cutting back on sound acceleration, in steps all the way back to pure emulation. No change. And until tonight I couldn't see any pattern or connection.
Tonight, however, I discovered that it doesn't happen when I fly something with an engine other than a Merlin (I'd been flying Hurricane I almost exclusively in preparation for BoB, and Ponies or Seafires otherwise, all Merlins, until tonight). P38, Hog, 109, no problem. Get back in a Hurri, whamo.
I suppose I can prolly work-around this by replacing sound *.wavs, I guess I'll try that. Just wanted to spout off about it since I hadn't seen anyone else complain about it.
Oh.
P3-550 running at 682 (124 on the bus)
Asus P3V4X (VIA Apollo Pro)
512 Mb PC100 RAM (has run stable @ 124 for 2 years)
Radeon 8500 128Mb AGP (never uses more than 50 or so Mb)
Creative SB16 ISA
W98SE
(need anything else ask I'll dig it out)
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