Offline Pratice still fubar

[watanna]

     What's the deal with the offline pratice issue.   Did a search and read all the posts and the only relpy I see from HTC was from Sudz.  No solutions or explainations as to what the issue is or when it is going to
be addressed.  My problem as with many is loads and then the white screen with error message send or don't
send to Microsoft.  Being puter stupid I can not capture the tech details and send them to HTC.  This aside I
would think Htc would at least acknowledge the problem and wether or not it is being addressed.  It is after all part of the game and should work. 

[bj229r]

Offline works fine for my somewhat older computer, problem likely specific to your box somehow---this is where Skuzzy always wants to see the "DX-Diag" thingie

[dmdchief]

I have a new dell laptop and since patch three it crashes if I try to practice offline also, I am using vista home premimun

[panzerr]

Did you guys take a look at Skuzzy's Vista care & feeding posts?  See the stickies at the top:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/board,13.0.html

[Blammo]

It's not just a Vista problem, happen on XP as well.  It also only started happening for me after the latest patch.  Going online does not crash and if I disable preloading skins into memory before going offline it doesn't crash.  That would all tell me a code change of some kind, but then again it doesn't happen to everyone.

[Yossarian]

It's happening to me on XP too.

Everything worked fine before the latest patch, and I haven't changed anything.

[Motherland]

Mine works fine on XP. Try turning off the preloading options (skins & textures), that worked for a squaddy.

[MWL]

Greetings,

  Yes that also worked for me (Windows XP)

Regards,

[Spikes]

Mine works fine on XP. Try turning off the preloading options (skins & textures), that worked for a squaddy.

Mine were already off...

[Motherland]

Does it work if you load an online arena and then offline?

[watanna]

    I've tried to load several different terrains and checked an unchecked but no go.  Now for a simple mind like
mine it worked before and does not now.   My machine is probably considered upper end.  Amd duo and twin
8800 GT with 512 each card.  As other posts have stated online works fine,  just offline messed up.  Hopefully Monday Skuz or Pryo or who ever the powers to be can make a statement as to what is going on.

[bj229r]

Just telling them it's hosing up isn't enough---they invariably the dxdiag stuff (which I THINK has cpu info?)

[Drano]

Hadn't mess around offline much other than to test settings but I thought I'd check out some of the offline missions just for kicks. AH would start to load the terrain then once the terrain is loaded it just crashes to desktop. Online and AHFilm viewer are fine, it's just offline that has the problem. I'm running a not so old box but with 98SE as its OS. (I just can't ditch my trusty old CH gear and don't have the bucks to update it).

Thought I'd check the forums and sure enough I'm not the only one with an issue. I have little doubt the Hitech powers that be will squash this bug directly.

Drano

[Brooke]

Edit:  Ah . . . I think it is addressed here:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,233403.0.html

[macleod01]

Mine runs the missions for a certain ammount of time, before crashing. It has never crashed on loading.