Author Topic: Aces High White Screen of Death; Connection Woes; the Community; 1.09... (Read 192 times)

beet1e · « **on:** March 17, 2002, 06:31:58 PM »

Well guys, I’ve just come back from a few days break in Spain (Andalucia) – what a beautiful country. Aces High had been getting to me for a while, and I needed a break from it; I had had problems getting used to a different type of community, which has arguably been overrun with a preponderance of newcomers. So be it. When I got back, I found that 1.09 was out! I like the changes, but I really like the new voice comms facility. For the first time, I feel that I’m flying amongst friends that I know. Had a good time in the CT tonight. I’ve already seen a few people expressing discontent with the voice comms, but that’s fine. I find that I get a much better picture of what’s going on. Long may it continue.

There’s something I’ve noticed when starting Aces High, to which I will refer as the White Screen of Death. I wondered if anyone else has had this? You go to log on to the online game, and a Windows frame comes up, with Aces High in the title, but the body of the window is entirely blank. Sometimes it lasts only 2-3 seconds, but many times I have to wait for 5 minutes for this screen to disappear and for the Arena list to appear. Any ideas?

It seems that one of the penalties of an arena with lots of participants is a deterioration of the server connection, and frequent disconnections. Yesterday evening, I was unable to log in at all for the entire evening. It seems that I must participate when there are no more than about 150 people present in the arena. It was the same with WB, only much worse – but I wont go into that... Is there anything we as players can do to improve the connection? I have ISDN and get a 64K connection every time.

Damned shame about FunkedUp leaving. Is there anything we can do to get him back? I was just winging with him two Saturdays ago, and now he says he’s gone

mrfish · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2002, 08:29:48 PM »

i used to get the white screen - the trick is to move your mouse around....it seems to white out a giant square and your mouse shrinks it as it moves - i dont know if that is your result but it worked for me.

Superfly · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2002, 09:16:26 AM »

The white screen sounds like you accidentally deleted the mouse and htc logo bitmaps. Do you still see the clipboard? Also, this should be in the BUG REPORTS section.

beet1e · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2002, 09:29:41 AM »

The clipboard finally appears, but sometimes I have to stare at the white screen for 5 minutes.

BigGun · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2002, 10:44:13 AM »

Once in awhile i get the white screen when booting up the game. Sometimes only a few seconds. If it doesn't clear in 2 seconds, I hit alt+4...then game closes within 30 seconds. Re-start the game and have no problems. Thank goodness this is a rare problem for me.

weazel · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2002, 10:45:26 AM »

I had that problem when I overclocked my old video card too high.

hitech · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2002, 11:11:56 AM »

beetle go into
start/settings/control panel/multimedia.

Under the Recording box
Preferred device. Change it to either you sound card or
(Use any available device)

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