Going to offline practice crashes game

[wantok]

Try changing resolution.  I remember I was able to go in 1 time before i figured out it was something with the skins preload on my machine.

Appreciate the suggestion, but no dice.  Tried every resolution available - crash every time.  I also tried, one by one, turning off Hardware Vertex Processing, changing the Max Frame Rate, and dropping the Max Texture Size to 512 (which caused a rebuild of the plane cache and the terrain cache).  Still a crash to desktop every time for me, I'm afraid.

The only remotely relevant thing I changed between being able to play offline and not was the installation of patch 3.  I've never been able to play offline since the patch.

[633DH98]

are there any solutions? 

Reload 2.11.3 in a folder called "HTC2" for offline play only? 

[dkff49]

I have same problem with my XP desktop which has always played the game well before patch 3. (with exception of a little fr drop since 2.12 release).

At the same time I have no problem with my vista laptop in offline. (weird because I have alot of problems trying to play online with this laptop.

[RATTFINK]

Lagger87 & Bigjohnv (Squaddies) have had the program crash.

I believe they have sent e-mails to the powers that be (HTC) and have received no reply.


I have had no problems myself.

[dkff49]

not sure if anyone mentioned this yet or not but

Mine always crashes when it is trying to load the terrain. Almost like the offline can't find the file for terrains. Online works fine though and like I said before my this only happens on the XP desktop. My Vista laptop plays offline very well. Don't know if it is specific to OS or not.


edit: new info this might be a memory issue or something causing it to be

here are some screenshots from after I get in. the first is from offline (which I got working after running fsautostart and stopping alot of programs and services). The second is after getting in one of the online arenas. I found this weird because my Vista laptop is just the opposite memory usage and fr are worse when in online than in offline.

[Strip]

I have vista and it wont run in offline period. Online works great so I dont think its OS related looking at your post.

Strip

[dkff49]

Just tried it on work computer which is a Vista. Works in on-line and does not work in offline. So like you said Strip most likely not OS specific.

I tried

[DieAz]

Crash: "Aces High has encountered a problem..."

Ditto. same thing here on XP machine.

[Yossarian]

I'm afraid I haven't had the patience to let AH run that long after it's stopped responding, but I'm running Windows XP Home Edition SP2.  I invariably wind up hitting the power button of my PC, as task manager won't open, I'm not able to switch windows, open the start menu, switch users etc...  However, the mouse will move around (certain) areas of the screen, depending on how many times I press "ALT + TAB" - so I think it actually is switching windows, but isn't showing me anything.

At a guess, I'd say that this is graphics related.  FYI I'm using an NVidia Geforce FX 5200, a Pentium 4, and I have 512MB of RAM.

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Yossarian

[RATTFINK]

Can't be the graphics.  I have had that problem since day one & have had several Nvidia Graphics cards since then.

I have had:

7100 GS

7600 GS

8600 GTS

& now I have the mother of all Nvidia graphics cards, the 9800 GX2

And still have had that happen to me.

[MWL]

Greetings,

  I must say I am having the same problem.  I down loaded the FSO practice missions and attempted to practice - CTD.  So, I thought, well I must have saved a file in the wrong place.  Found the files, deleted, nada.  Changed terrain.  nada.  powered down. nada.  Deleted all my saved mission files (I know where to find them again!) nada.  Down loaded the new patch to the mission editor (Okay, so they could have been related).  nada.

  I was hoping to show off this game to a family member who is to, shall we say, shy to fly online.  I hope this is not me or my machine, but would like to be able to fly off line again.

Regards,

[MWL]

Greetings,

  I can play in the offline practice mode.  On the opening clip board prior to selecting offline practice, I opened the video settings and unchecked preload of both textures and skins.  The game appears to be working normally now.

Regards,

[dkff49]

on my desktop at home and at work, I have never had that box checked. So I am sure that is not it.

thanks for your thoughts though and glad to hear that you got yours working

[Strip]

What is HTC saying about this issue??

Its causing me serious grief...

Strip

[lagger86]

What is HTC saying about this issue??

Its causing me serious grief...

Strip

I have heard nothing.

A simple "we don't know why this is happening but we will look into it" would be fine.