Offline crashes

[Pyro]

The offline crashes on certain machines with Patch 3 is a memory allocation issue related to drones in the practice missions.  This will be fixed in the next patch and it has no impact on online play or performance.  In the meantime, you can try the following workarounds to get it running if you have this problem.  Try to turn off the texture preload options in your video settings if you have them enabled.  Also make sure that you have all unnecessary programs and processes shutdown before running AH in offline mode.  Anything that's eating up memory on your system may cause this problem to surface.  If none of that works, you're probably not going to be able to run it offline until a patch is released.  Finally, let me repeat that this problem is only in the offline practice mode and it has no effect on online play.

[Strip]

Are we talking short term or long term for a patch to come out?

Strip

[watanna]

     Pyro:  Thankyou for addressing this issue.  I never would have dreamed a memory issue would have affected this machine.  Good luck on the patch and again thanks  blt280

[Alky]

Try to turn off the texture preload options in your video settings if you have them enabled.

My offline practice/missions crash every time to the "encountered error must close down" error.
I don't have the pre-load turned on but I had texture size set to 512. I thought perhaps the offline stuff needed to be set at 1024, so I changed it... no soap 
I guess I'll need to wait till there's a patch.

System Information
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Time of this report: 4/20/2008, 12:45:42
       Machine name: THE_BEAST
   Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Compaq Presario 061
       System Model: EX321AA-ABA SR1930NX NA630
               BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
          Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (2 CPUs)
             Memory: 1022MB RAM
          Page File: 557MB used, 1804MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

Display Devices
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        Card name: Radeon X1600/X1650 Series
     Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
        Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x71C2)
         DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
       Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C2&SUBSYS_23421002&REV_00
   Display Memory: 512.0 MB
     Current Mode: 1280 x 960 (32 bit) (60Hz)
          Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
  Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
      Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
   Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6734 (English)
      DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
 Driver Date/Size: 11/1/2007 20:09:00, 268288 bytes

[fuzeman]

I only have the original practice missions loaded and I can run offline but it does take a long time to load. I recently got a icon in taskbar stating that Windows was going to increase my virtual memory.

[wantok]

Great stuff... 2.12 patch 4 has fixed the offline-crash problem (for me, anyway).

[Alky]

Ahhh yes!!!  it's all good now with this patch!  Thank You Pyro and the rest of the crew!!