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Offline BNshill

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« on: January 14, 2003, 05:26:04 PM »
I was just curious if you have addressed this vanishing plane problem. It happens far too much to ignore now. I have noticed that while the icon vanishes for you - others around you still see the plane (my squaddie saw one while i was winging - the plane did'nt vanish on my FE).

Please say it's going to be fixed soon?

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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2003, 08:00:25 AM »
Please post system information whenever mentioning problems.  This will help them see if they can find a correlation.

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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2003, 02:13:22 PM »
My system specs have nothing to do with a widespread problem that just started within the last 2 updates.

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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2003, 04:43:07 PM »
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Originally posted by BNshill
My system specs have nothing to do with a widespread problem that just started within the last 2 updates.


Any information is good information,  for example at work wwe found out that a certain video driver release was causing lockups across the campus after we added 1 image to the intranet site.  So don't tell me that your system watermelon don't stink.

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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2003, 06:20:25 PM »
I've seen the problem a few times myself BN.  
I've got a film where I'm fighting in a 2v1 and I ping one of the enemy planes and he goes into a spin.  I followed him down in case he recovered but saw that he was in a flat spin and almost about to hit the deck and broke off to engage the 2nd enemy plane but still kept an eye out for the P-38's fireball to confirm his death.  I saw the P-38 about to impact on into the ground and then all of a sudden the P-38 was d3.0+ away and flying like nothing happened to him.  Doesn't happen a lot to me but enough times to make me scratch my head and wonder WTF.


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« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2003, 05:50:58 AM »
It doesn't sound like the same thing akak. He warped to you, but he was always visible. More likely some freaky connection for one of you.

What is being described is a plane simply disappearing for seconds. for then to reenter, often where you would expect it to be. I posted a film of this after 1.11 came out, that shows a P51 vanish in a close dogfight. I checked netstat, and mine was fine.

It happens at time 3:12->3:16.

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