The test version is ready for download. It's a 900KB download that will install the file ahtest.exe into your AH2 directory. Make certain that the installation goes to your current AH2 installation directory. The file will only run from that directory. No shortcut is created to this file. You will need to manually run ahtest.exe or create a shortcut to it.
When you first run it, please go to your video settings and click the default button under max texture size. If it runs smoothly under that condition, you can try to increase your texture size one setting.
This test version will create a new cache directory so as not to interfere with your regular AH2 version. As is the case whenever a new texture cache is generated, there will be some stutters the first time new objects are loaded in the game. Once you get through that, it should be smooth for all future sesssions. The biggest gain should be had by those machines with only 256MB of system memory.
If you choose to download this, please let us know how this version compares to the current release version of AH2 for your system. There is a thread in the bug report forum to do this. Thanks for your help in this matter.
Here is the download link.
http://downloads.hitechcreations.com/AHTEST0.EXE
