I've been on AH 2 for about 2 years now and its been clear that I have been experiencing some performance oddities since the start, flying same plane/loadout with squaddie watching him pull away slowly even though throttle settings, alt, trim identical, no damage hits that usually produce kills, instant loss of lift at decent speeds etc. Most of this I've grown used to and learned to adjust.
Others I managed to get over via new drivers, FS autostart, endless tweaking, the usual AH routine.Some new curiosities started with the version that brought the jeep.
Now with the latest v there's a new menu of challenges I seem unable to overcome.
I wonder if they have the same source that's causing them.
The game's just about unplayable for me and since I've made a substantial investment in time and $, I wonder if I'm being too picky or if I need to find a game better suited to my setup.
Here's the short list of the most common occasional glitches:
-Kneeboard dosn't show darbar when enme is in sector and at alt.
-No base flash to show "under attack"
-Slow or no response from JS, ie: pull back to climb, no response for a couple
of sec's then the sharp nose up usually producing an undesirable
maneuver. secondary release stops working, bombs don't drop, troops don't
run.
- Unable to attain speed over 250 mph.
- air to air hits that produce a lightshow of sprites, no damage
- GV to Gv hits that pass thru, or just dissappear without showing even a puff
of dust. The same thing will happen with ship artillery, makes ranging a lot
like the lottery.
- HUGE delay in populating enme's on screen. After spawning it takes
sometimes 10 sec's or so before I see any enemy, no matter what proximity.
I just tested this in TT and if I get any vis it's just the tracer coming in from
blank space. A real problem in active engagements. Same thing happens
at airfields in planes.
- HVAC rounds do nothing, no trace, no hit, no damage.
- Silent GV's. Moving, no motor noise. Makes one an easy target for a
bushwackin.
- Air cons appear at 1000-1500 instead of 6k like usual.
- Crosshairs on ship guns dissappear. Makes AA defense a real joy.
- 300 mph compression.
- Warping tanks.
- Taking fire from the center of a hill.
- One way fire. Enemy hits me but can't get hit even when fully visible.
- No difference in Close or full vis range. None.
- Vastly different handling characteristics from one sortie to the next.
- Epileptic GVs. tap something or roll over a bump, the veh starts revving and
spinning, never to stop until towered.
- Conveniently timed screen lockups.
- Con's with no icon.
- Landing on concrete and getting ditched, both planes and GV's.
- Losing kills to ditchers I've shot up and tower within 2k from my pos.
- Falling through carrier decks for a ditch or worse.
- Can't get the pt to move anymore. All other GV's work pretty much ok.
- Unable to get out of the water in LVT's occasionally, just sit at shore revving
and yawing but no forward even in first gear.
- No damage bombs, dropped at a decent alt but not even a crater. Or if a
crater resolves, the gv just rolls out of it and keeps fighting. This has
happenned with 'bout all gv's , I expect it from Tigers but not M-16's.
- Divergent damage models, slugging it out with same type tanks, losing
from a single hit to my multiples. Every time.
- Odd susceptability to mg's. Have lost turrets to .30 cals.
- Hardened field guns, 2 passes, 4 20mm's, he's still shootin.
It seems that with the new graphic enhancements these prob's are more frequent. I thought 64 megs vid mem. was adequate. I'm on a high bandwidth connection, newer JS (X-52), 2.2g processor. The website says this should be enough. I'm thinkin software conflict but really have no idea.
I'm not prepared to chase my tail buying upgraded hardware just to accomodate a game, especially one that worked so nice before the new versions.
I'm thinking it may be time to move on and find a less problematic game to get killed on.
I wasn't a sim addict before I joined AH but as I said I have made an investment and the JS was a gift so I have to use it on something. I have to say the whole mutli-player thing is a gas. I enjoy the time I spend flyin and dyin with everybody but lifes too short to get p/o'd cause a few lines of code are buggy.
Any thoughts would be well recieved. Thanks.
