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Offline DREDIOCK

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Weird screen on game lock up
« on: January 29, 2017, 09:18:58 AM »
Was RTB for a landing last night when I suddenly noticed the terrain wasnt moving. Waited a few moments and when it still didnt do anything I realized the game must be locked up so I pressed a couple of buttons and waited for the error screen to come up like it normally does.
I got this instead



Finally I hit the windows key and then came back in again and the game returned as though nothing happened.

Dont know if it shows on the film or not but I attached the film anyway
« Last Edit: January 29, 2017, 09:23:41 AM by DREDIOCK »
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Re: Weird screen on game lock up
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2017, 09:21:05 AM »
BTW. I could hear the game and heard the base under attack message. so I called out on vox during this time to see if anyone could hear me. They could though they said I sounded garbled.

DX9 version

The lockup would occur during the last 5 minutes or so of the flight (obviously)
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Re: Weird screen on game lock up
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2017, 10:42:21 AM »
In the new temp folder at the bottom of the AH3 folders list, did a DMP file get generated in response to your lockup? It will have the time stamp of the moment the lockup started. If it is there, make sure it is not "0" bytes. Had one testing clouds in DX11 last night that got as far as producing the file, but locked so hard no data was dropped into the file.
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Re: Weird screen on game lock up
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2017, 06:29:20 PM »
The most recent "dmp" file in the Temp folder was Nov,14 2016
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