What percentage of people have CTD??

[poopster]

The last patch took care of 95% of the CTD's.

I think I've only had one CTD since. Had some disco's but those were from my end not AH.

Lotsa switched sessions though.

[Swager]

I've had 1 CTD since patch.  I only had 1 or 2 before then.

Plus 2 screen lockups.

[Hungry]

There seems to be quite a few players who do or do not get the CTD's.  It also seems like its still happening from what I hear in the MA.  Would it be helpful to HT for us to post our system specs. and whether or not we get them?  I'm a Marketing Analyst by trade and the data usually doesn't lie.  For me my comp. has never crashed in AH. .

There has to be some commonality to the problem. I use a small program that can be pasted into a word document called Belarc Advisor, nice straight from the comp system sheet. I'm sure there are many.  Heck send em to me I could give a you detailed spreadsheet / database analyzing system specs of those who do or don't and what they use.

Just a thought, my first AH post

[eskimo2]

Nothing but CTDs since 1.10 came out.

5 minutes logged in is a long time without one.  
I've stopped even trying to fly.
Waiting for the next patch...

eskimo

[Kubwak]

i get a lot of ctds (55 and counting) and lots of lost udp(this i can blame on my cheap and slow isp).

maybe its my asus a7s333 running a gf4ti4200 with only 300w power.... maybe its my ddr which could be a lemon.

i remember playing AH with my friends intel machines before, no ctd whatsoever but that was AH1.09 i think.

maybe i shouldn't have went athlon, oh well.....


Kubwak
Self Proclaimed CTD King of AH

[Sandman]

Maybe 1 in 30 connects... It's so little that I don't even bother counting.

However... nothing consistent about the way they occur.

[Hedgehog]

Hi People,

   Hey, thank you ALL for replying, and so quickly.

   So, I see about 20% of the people are having problems. Really, that's not a super huge percentage, and so I can understand why there hasn't been a real spill over this problem.

   In reading some of the posts, the only idea I have for why the problem might be worse for me is that I'm still using Win 98. The hardware is not too bad (1.4 GHz Athlon, rock steady 400W Antec power supply, SDR GeForce video card, and 512 MB RAM), but perhaps its the flakiness of fairly ancient Win 98.

   Perhaps it's time to go to XP?

=Thanks people. If you see me in AH, say hi really quickly, as I might be on the desktop at any moment.

=Hedgehog

[Hungry]

Hedgehog, check this out, its not win 98

Operating System   System Model
Windows 98   Micron Electronics Inc. Micron Computer System  
Processor a   Main Circuit Board
1400 megahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache  
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 7ZXE 1.0
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 62710 03/29/2002

Drives    
10.12 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
5.48 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LG CD-ROM CRD-8482B
SONY CD-RW CRX160E [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")
Generic IDE hard disk drive (10.12 GB) -- drive 0
IOMEGA ZIP 100 [Hard drive] -- drive 255   256 Megabytes Installed Memory
128 Megabyte Module Size - 2 Installed
One Memory Socket is Empty

  Local Drive Volumes      
c: (on drive 0) 2.15 GB 122 MB free
d: (on drive 0) 7.97 GB 5.35 GB free      
 
Controllers   Printers
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller  
EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 on LPT1:
 
  Display
  GM3000 (GeForce2 MX/MX 400) [Display adapter]
Micron 700Cx [Monitor]
Bus Adapters   Multimedia
VIA VT83C572/VT82C586 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
VIA VT83C572/VT82C586 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller   Creative Gameport Joystick
Sound Blaster AudioPCI
Communications   Other Devices
PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
USB Human Interface Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

4.37 Via's and 28.32 GeForce drivers

Hope this comes out ok. From Belarc, Sis-Soft Sandra does one to. Sis caught a bad memory module for me, was causing all sorts of anoying little things

[Sachs]

Still get CTD's even after last patch they have gotten better but I still get them mainly in hangers now selecting ords or planes.  Which have accounted for about 25 this tour alone.

[Mitsu]

In patch 4, some Japanese people said they had CTDs when seeing Ki-67 or opening bomb bay doors of it.

Though I don't have these CTDs.

I think their OS was Windows 2K or Windows XP (I know currently AH doesn't support a XP).

BTW, my PC spec is as follows:

Pentium-III 800MHz
512MB RAM
Canopus X20 (GeForce 3)
SoundBlaster Live!
Windows 98

[SirLoin]

Last patch fixed here as well....

[Roscoroo]

No hard locks , one CTD , no disco's since patch 1.104

I'm pleased so far ...

ECS K7S5A mb
Amd 1.0 ghz CPU     256 DDR 2100
GF 2 mx 400 64 mb 29.42 det, drivers
30 gig hd 7200 rpm
win 98se  OS
733 kbps DSL connection

Ive also experienced less ctds /lock ups on my pc at work

933 ghz Pent 3 ,  Gigabyte "P.O.S " motherboard GA-6VX7B-4X
448  mb sdram 133
GF 2 mx/mx 400  64mb   30.10 det drivers  ( i think thats the verson )
6 gig and 20 gig hd's
win 98se  OS
tested at home on my dsl connect,   now back on a 56k msn connect
 I get a few disco's on the 56k ... and more warping /lag , but thats always been normal here on this connect for the last year .

If i had more spare hard drives i could test more on my smaller pc's i have  2  pent 2's and my piped 486 server machine .the later I played this game on quite abit

[Widewing]

Four CDTs since patch, all within ten minutes. No bomber related lockups. I momentary lockup, caused auger.

It's much better, but still needs some code tweaking.

My regards,

Widewing

[Hedgehog]

Thank you again for replying!

I'm not sure how to count some of the new entries, but it looks like we're still at about 20% of the people having major CTD difficulty.

Thank you very much for posting systems. From what I've read, nothing jumps out at me on my side that would be the obvious culprit. I am running behind a Linksys router, but my connects to other places have been solid - more so than using another ISP several months ago. With such a tough problem, you start thinking about everything - like the SB Live!, which has had conflicts in the past, etc.

FYI, I've done what I believe are most of the suggested fixes - swapped my PCI boards around to minimize IRQ sharing, installed latest DirectX, reinstalled AH from scratch (except for settings files and the like).

Clearly, some people are doing the same search as I am, and I'm sure doing a more thorough job, and still see the issues. The culprit will hopefully turn up eventually.

[Mox]

No CTD's since patch BUT I've had 6 screen freezes to the point I must power of the pc.