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Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Waffle on July 13, 2004, 03:48:30 PM
Several players, AKAK, Ramair, Shubie and myself have had excellent luck with a temporary fix for the stutters that seem to relate to a cache issue.

Basically, When you start AH2, look at the planes and vehicles in the hanger. Also look at any individual skins for the planes/ vehicles.

Then after thats done - you should be good to go.

You'll have to do this each time you play ah2 if you turn off your PC in between..

Anyway, If you have some stutters, try it. If it helps post report.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Waffle on July 14, 2004, 11:59:36 PM
punt -

Name tried and it worked for him also....

Anyone else?
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Hyrax81st on July 15, 2004, 12:02:15 AM
It worked for me...
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Kev367th on July 15, 2004, 01:00:44 AM
Anyone figure out a way to load the caches to a ramdisk and use that instead of disk access. This would eliminate them all-together.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Hyrax81st on July 15, 2004, 01:15:45 AM
Why can't they be loaded directly to the video card memory ?
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: tce2506 on July 15, 2004, 06:44:47 AM
Worked for me too!
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: RAS on July 15, 2004, 08:25:21 AM
Worked good here....thanks Waffle

RASCAL
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Vad on July 15, 2004, 12:11:56 PM
Worked for me in the most cases. Can't say that they are gone completely but it's obviously not a problem any more.
Thanks a lot!
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: TheDudeDVant on July 15, 2004, 12:16:44 PM
What type sound do you guys use??
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Hyrax81st on July 15, 2004, 12:36:45 PM
Card is SB Audigy 2. I have hardware acceleration set to 75% as suggested in other threads.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: TheDudeDVant on July 15, 2004, 12:46:39 PM
I swear I did not submit that reply 3x! lol

Seems some folks with sound cards are having the same trouble as us folk w/ onboard sound..

at 75% sound acceleration, do you still have any stutters??
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: hubsonfire on July 15, 2004, 01:36:54 PM
SB PCI 128 sound card, 3/4 accel all around. What's RAMDisk?

ps: Waffle's new idea worked so well, I not only use it, I bought the... er, well, you get the idea. Thanks for the tip Waffle.

HTC guys, any guesses on this one?
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: tce2506 on July 15, 2004, 02:38:19 PM
On board sound.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: wrag on July 15, 2004, 03:39:04 PM
SBPCI 512 here, need the analog port for controls and the onboard sound had some issues.  (kept progressively losing sound after sound in AH until I was flyin silent and had no vox)

set to 75%.

Everthing seems to be workin very well right now.

Note: had a problem hitting.  Would fire and see hits but no results or totally miss???

Sound loop lockup that forced me to reset/reboot probably/possibly corrupted the com to server protion of my AH front end.  

Note this also seemed to happened with AHI from time to time.  Think it's my system (W98se).

Fix seems to be, for me anyways, remove (with add remove programs in control panel) and reinstall AH. Right after doing this went from usin all my ammo for MAYBE 1 kill to 5 and 8 kill sorties.

Now when I see hits parts fall off and planes go down.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: Kev367th on July 15, 2004, 03:41:47 PM
hubsonfire - a ramdisk is an area of memory reserved to act as hard disk. Therefore lightning fast load times, ergo no stutters (theoretically). Just a shame that Windows ramdisks are fixed sizes and don't grow and shrink like the Amigas one used to.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: DREDIOCK on July 15, 2004, 07:45:02 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Kev367th
hubsonfire - a ramdisk is an area of memory reserved to act as hard disk. Therefore lightning fast load times, ergo no stutters (theoretically). Just a shame that Windows ramdisks are fixed sizes and don't grow and shrink like the Amigas one used to.


Got that right.
Was an outstanding machine for its time eons ahead of any IBM clone.

I remember when  MS windows first came out and the first time I saw it. On my Bosses machine (back when I had a boss) He was all proud and whatnot showing it off.
I took one look at it. clicked on a few things and said
"I dont see what al the hubub is all about. I've been doing this for  a couple of years on my Amy."
I laughed at the graphics and sound (beep beep beep beep)
 "I get over 4,000 colors and 4 channel stereo standard without  having to add a graphic s or sound card. can even run it through my stero" AND I can run both Mac and IBM stuff too and do it all at the same time if I want to"

Received only the chittiest of workloads for the next month.
LMAO

Poorly marketed machine otherwise it would probably be the leader even today

But getting back on topic. Viewing all the planes is nothing short of a PIA but it does help somewhat with the stutters..
Not completely but it does help.
Does nothing to improve unstable  framerate though
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: DREDIOCK on July 15, 2004, 07:46:06 PM
Nagdabbit
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: DREDIOCK on July 15, 2004, 07:46:16 PM
sorry for the triple post. the site
Lagged up on me
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: nopoop on July 15, 2004, 08:40:51 PM
My first computer was an amiga.

Amiga's rocked. To bad they didn't stay around.

Bleams ahead in graphics and interface.

Good box.
Title: Successful temporary fix for some stutter issues
Post by: MrLars on July 16, 2004, 01:09:11 PM
The Video Toaster was great for it's time. I did a ton of editing on one during the Valdez spill.

My first 'gaming rig' was a 500, still have boxes of games on floppy for it.