This is the test version I said I would post. It plays exactly like the normal DX11 game, but when the game freezes for more than 0.3 seconds it records what the game was doing at that moment. Nothing is sent automatically: you send us the files yourself.
1. Install- Download ah11stutter.exe here:
https://dload.hitechcreations.com/ah11stutter.exe- Copy it into your Aces High III folder (the folder that has aceshigh11.exe in it). It does not replace anything: your normal game stays as it is.
2. Play- Start the game by double-clicking ah11stutter.exe, and fly in the Main Arena as you normally do.
- Keep the game in front. The test does not record while you are alt-tabbed away, or during the first minute after starting, entering an arena, or taking off.
- Play for at least 30 minutes, long enough to get two or three stutters.
- When a stutter is caught you will see this line in the text buffer: "Hitch captured: ... Please send the hitch files in the temp folder to HiTech."
- If you feel a stutter and no message appears, please write down the time. That is useful to us too.
3. Send us the files- Exit the game.
- Open your Aces High III folder, then the folder named "temp".
- Select every file whose name starts with "hitch" (hitchlog.txt and any hitch_....txt files).
- Right-click, choose "Send to" > "Compressed (zipped) folder".
- Email the zip file to htcmail@hitechcreations.com with the subject: DX11 stutter test
- Then send me a private message here on the BBS as well, so I know to look for your email.
4. Please tell us in the email- Your game ID.
- Monitor or VR.
- Roughly when the stutters happened and how often (for example "every 10 minutes").
What is in the files: frame timings, memory use, your video card name, Windows version, and the list of program files the game had loaded. No account information, passwords or chat. File paths may show your Windows user name.
To go back to the normal game: just start Aces High the way you always do. You can delete ah11stutter.exe when you are done.
HiTech
