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Offline chancevought

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freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« on: May 27, 2006, 07:33:34 AM »
ok...lil jumpy during flight but i can live with that....but as soon as i close in and fire screen freezes and for 2 or so secs...by then bogey has flipped on to me!!...only suggestion i have recieved is disable power control programs...i'm not a computer person, so i have no idea where to find it nor to disable it....i have looked under power options, but there is no disable option.....i also removed ATI control panel ( it said control in the title) this had no effect..........i have a dell with ATI 7800 and tons of memory....i dont wanna have to keep flyin bombers or know i cant fight if i get jumped.
...please HELP
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freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2006, 02:09:11 PM »
Go offline,when on the ground press control-i (to display the frame rate) look at the FPS counter and open fire.

Do the FPS drop ?
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freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2006, 07:18:58 PM »
thanx for replying.....yes it drops....its set on unlimited ( i have reduced it before with no effect)... offline on ramp FPS is 20...start firing and it drops to 14 then 6 then 4 FPS...tried H2H arenas and have same results....not payin for main arena, but remember it runnin at close to 60 FPS  and still freezin and warping...thanx for your time...all suggestions appreciated
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freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2006, 09:40:36 PM »
Just curious, as I doubt this has anything to do with it but can you define "tons of memory" for me?

Also, just to make sure, that is an ATI 7800 and not a Geforce 7800 right?  Because theres a BIG difference.
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 11:57:00 PM »
Chance you need to post a DXDiag of your computer, but IMO your problem is more that your computer don't have the horsepower.

Did you change the default video options ?
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freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2006, 07:13:43 AM »
Sounds like resource starvation, combined with using an AC97 sound type device.  Just a guess.

In the video settings of the game, make sure you are not checking the "Preload textures to video RAM", and the "Preload skins" options.  Again, just a guess.
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2006, 08:19:56 AM »
Turn off all nonessential programs running in the background before you launch AH. You should be able to get it down to 20 processes running or so.
cntl alt delete will bring up your task manager and show you what you have running.

If you are using on board sound (AC97) try this as well.
 click start--->run and type in dxdiag. Wait for it to load, then click on the sound tab. Set your acceleration slider back to the left a notch. You should be running it at no more than 3/4.

hope this helps a bit.

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Re: freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2006, 08:27:35 AM »
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Originally posted by chancevought
ok...lil jumpy during flight but i can live with that....but as soon as i close in and fire screen freezes and for 2 or so secs...by then bogey has flipped on to me!!...only suggestion i have recieved is disable power control programs...i'm not a computer person, so i have no idea where to find it nor to disable it....i have looked under power options, but there is no disable option.....i also removed ATI control panel ( it said control in the title) this had no effect..........i have a dell with ATI 7800 and tons of memory....i dont wanna have to keep flyin bombers or know i cant fight if i get jumped.
...please HELP


My new pc arrives this weekend.  My old pc was a P3 800mhz, 394MB RAM, GeForce DDR-DVI.  

I was at 60fps in tower, and in a furball they would drop to the high 20's.

I had SP1 installed with 15 programs running (including AH).  SP2 added 8 processes, so I nixed it to save strain on it.
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Re: freezes when other aircraft are in range...and when i shoot at them
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2006, 11:01:07 PM »
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Originally posted by chancevought
ok...lil jumpy during flight but i can live with that....but as soon as i close in and fire screen freezes and for 2 or so secs...by then bogey has flipped on to me!!...only suggestion i have recieved is disable power control programs...i'm not a computer person, so i have no idea where to find it nor to disable it....i have looked under power options, but there is no disable option.....i also removed ATI control panel ( it said control in the title) this had no effect..........i have a dell with ATI 7800 and tons of memory....i dont wanna have to keep flyin bombers or know i cant fight if i get jumped.
...please HELP


If you are on a P-M notebook, yes, disable the power saving in the BIOS, Windows wont let you as far as I know.
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