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Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: SunKing on June 03, 2004, 01:11:47 AM: Didn't change any settings ( all sliders maxed in game), but this patch has cured me of stutters when I get close to enemy planes. Thanks.Thought you might want to know.

My system specs

Albatron KX400-8X
AMD XP 2100
3x 256DDR pc-2100 Crucial
Radeon 97000 pro Omega V. 2.5.44
DX 9.0b
40gig IBM 60x Deskstar HDD x2
SB!live Soundcard
CH USB 658 Flightstick
CH USB Pro Throttle
CH USB Pro Pedals
TrackIR ;)
Samsung Synchmaster 1100DF Monitor
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: DipStick on June 03, 2004, 04:03:46 AM: Funny I've noticed about 4 times as many.

PIII 1 Gig
768mb SDRAM
Radeon 9700 Pro
DX 9.0b
SB!live Soundcard
CH USB 568 Flightstick
CH USB Pro Throttle
CH USB Pro Pedals
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: Mugzeee on June 03, 2004, 05:12:26 AM: The stutters are less for me too. But still too many to contend with on a reagular basis. I didnt see anything that Pyro disclosed that would have reduced the stuttering. But then again, we are talking about Software. :D
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: Eagler on June 03, 2004, 05:37:23 AM: I had stutters last night at merge

is it the custom skins as some suggest?

is that why it is not at every merge?
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: Flossy on June 03, 2004, 06:19:01 AM: I'm sure it was said somewhere that stutters can be caused by coming across a new skin for the first time. After that it would be OK. I would guess those who fly most often will have already come across most of the skins, and their stutters will be been mostly eliminated.
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: wrag on June 03, 2004, 07:52:16 AM: I had more then stutters! Had white boxes appear in some merges.

Also had the sun become a white box while setting on the runway lookin around just before take off.

Also sometimes icons turn to solid red or green bars in some views.

Seemed to lessin the longer I flew but was disconcerting all the same.
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: IronDog on June 03, 2004, 09:41:24 AM: I picked up a lot of stutters,screen freezes with 37.It appears that the first time it sets up skins after patch,this is a possible cause.I also noticed that having tracers on will freeze me up real quick.IL2 does the same thing,must be universal.I can't comment on the new skins causing stutters,but I would like to say had no probs with AH1,and the graphics in AH2 simply don't rate all the problems they seem to have created.
IronDog
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: hitech on June 03, 2004, 10:44:44 AM: You should more studders in this version for the first few flights. Every time you see the genertating plane texture cache dialog box, All textures will be recached. Hence more studders the first few times you play. Other than that nothing has changed in that area of the code.

HiTech
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: lucull on June 03, 2004, 11:21:25 AM: Would it be possible to cache all textures as part of the installing process?

IMO the stutters are not very friendly to people who play AH2 for their first time and they will hardly believe that it will get better. That's really a "minus" for the short testers.
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: acetnt367th on June 03, 2004, 11:43:44 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lucull
Would it be possible to cache all textures as part of the installing process?

IMO the stutters are not very friendly to people who play AH2 for their first time and they will hardly believe that it will get better. That's really a "minus" for the short testers.

and if this is not possible, can we have a link to download all textures in one go - for those who want to?

Acetnt
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: RBug on June 03, 2004, 11:49:54 AM: Quote
Originally posted by hitech
You should more studders in this version for the first few flights.

HiTech

Igazad van!!! (means "thats right") :p

Got more studders today than previous patch but only some passes and those were gone.

-RBug-
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: lucull on June 03, 2004, 12:11:04 PM: Acetnt, you are mixing something up. Plane skins are made out of textures, but everything else (ground, buildings, ... etc.) has textures too and every texture has to be cached first time you see it, except those you were caching before first start (cache dialog).
Title: How large is the Cache?
Post by: 2Hawks on June 03, 2004, 02:40:44 PM: How large is the Cache, and when is it Purged?

Which memory reosource is it using? System or Video?

Would it be allowed to fill this memory? What would happen once that occurs?
Title: Hitech FYI patch 37 cured my sutters
Post by: acetnt367th on June 03, 2004, 06:07:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lucull
Acetnt, you are mixing something up. Plane skins are made out of textures, but everything else (ground, buildings, ... etc.) has textures too and every texture has to be cached first time you see it, except those you were caching before first start (cache dialog).

ok - my bad - but cant these be available as a seperate download so you have them locally and they dont contribute to the stutter?

Acetnt