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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: fscott on April 01, 2001, 11:11:00 PM

Virtually impossible to have a decent sortie now that I'm getting lockups and CTD's. This is ridiculous.  Patch 1 was PERFECT, patch 2 and 3 are nothing but trouble.

It's enuff for me to suspend my account, its that bad.  I know HT can't solve all problems, but soemthing happened with patch 2 which is causing them.


fscott

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: brady on April 02, 2001, 01:15:00 AM

 Realy i have no problem at all, at least nothing like u describe...

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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Khavren on April 02, 2001, 04:39:00 AM

I've had CTD's with Patch 1 but none since 2 or later

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Pepe on April 02, 2001, 07:22:00 AM

I have an Issue that froze AH on entrance, before even I could see the Arena list. It was due to Zone Alarm. Still have to see if 1.03 solved that.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Pepe

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Westy on April 02, 2001, 08:16:00 AM

Ditto, none since. But I have heard of two poeple, Fscott and an AW guys trying out AH now that still have constant dumpes.

 No idea what it could be. Not sure if there is a log file AH makes when it shuts down that could help these guys.

-Westy

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: straffo on April 02, 2001, 08:30:00 AM

Have you tested without your customs sounds ?

Cause you have perhaps added a badly formed sound since the last release.
It has happend to me one time having a corrupted sound file and hop! => CTD  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: NUTTZ on April 02, 2001, 08:37:00 AM

Westy i just had to do a fresh full reinstall of AH. the patch wouldn't let me use ANY plane offline. Now it CTD everytime i open AH. heres how AH is reacting for me since 1063. Open AH fly online No problems. open AH hit offline it freezes computer ( need hard reboot) open AH hit offline,, I can fly, change map from clipboard CTD! restart AH hit offline change map in clipboard no problems second time around, until i try to change a map. First try at changing a map is instant CTD, after that everything is ok.

One thing I do notice,,,,, there is another mouse pointer also in the screen,  One that i'm using and one frozen wherever the pointer was at the time AH started.

NUTTZ

 

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Originally posted by Westy:
Ditto, none since. But I have heard of two poeple, Fscott and an AW guys trying out AH now that still have constant dumpes.

 No idea what it could be. Not sure if there is a log file AH makes when it shuts down that could help these guys.

-Westy

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: straffo on April 02, 2001, 08:58:00 AM

did you have roger wilco enabled ?
If so try disabling autostart or remove RW

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: hazed- on April 02, 2001, 10:00:00 AM

same thing happened to me as what straffo describes (landing gear sound caused CTD).Its definately worth a totally fresh install remove everything and possibly download latest full version so theres no possible problems occouring with the updater.
Then post in the bugs or connection forum and i assure you you will get an answer from HTC staff or skuzzy.lephturn etc a lot faster than in here.

Good luck, it is a real pain when it goes wrong!I had 3 weeks of hell when i installed adsl with my Kt7aRAID mobo i can tell you,no AH for that lengh and your flying goes to pot   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Westy on April 02, 2001, 10:34:00 AM

 Any of you guys using Saitek sticks and the Saitek software??

-Westy

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Fury on April 02, 2001, 10:37:00 AM

I'm using Saitek, right now the software is disabled, but I've been on the latest version with it enabled and disabled, no CTDs.  

I agree with playing around with the RW settings to see if that has any impact.

Fury

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: 1776 on April 02, 2001, 10:51:00 AM

Am using SGE 3.0 and DirectX 8 and have no problems(crosses fingers).  RW seems to cause alot of problems and suspect it anytime anything goes wrong.  RW for me freezes AH when I enter the arena. But once it is happy all is normal.

How about disable RW and do a fresh download of SGE, try it then enable RW.  Just a thought.

If that doesn't work maybe IE is corrupted.

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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Wanker on April 02, 2001, 11:31:00 AM

Guys, this happened to me after version 1.03, I think it was. No matter how many patches came out, or how many times I uninstalled and reinstalled AH, my CTD's kept happening. After troublshooting for days, I gave up and did a complete rebuild of my PC, starting from Fdisk & format. That solved my problem. Instead of pounding my head against a brick wall, I just rebuilt the PC and everything worked fine.

Yes, a drastic step. But to save yourself some time and agony, you may want to consider it. Besides, a newly rebuilt image runs beter and faster in most cases. And it's also a good way to eliminate any old files and junk on your hard drive.

Think of it as an oil change for your PC.

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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Pyro on April 02, 2001, 02:00:00 PM

What are your system specs?  Have you made any hardware/software/system changes in that time?




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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: Lephturn on April 02, 2001, 02:45:00 PM

This might sound like a silly thing to do but...

Have you guys done a thorough scan disk and a complete defrag of your hard drive?  You should be doing that on a regular (at least monthly) schedule anyway.  More often if you install and remove software on a regular basis.

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Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: NUTTZ on April 02, 2001, 05:30:00 PM

Defrag my computer all the time.
Nope RW is NOT enabled. ( or on my system anymore.
All CH products ( no Siatek at all)
Useing default sounds.
No changes to hardware in the last month.
not using any netzone or firewalls.

PIII 800
512 133 ram
Asus 4v(something something MB
40 gig 7200 HD
Asus gforce 32 meg CC ( not DDR)
300 watt power supply.
DSL Westell modem to netgear network card
( have to wait in tower for 3 minutes before takeoff, or freindly acks kill me on takeoff, I also see ack shoot friendlies in tower until i wait the 3 minutes)

CHpro joy,CHpro throttle, CH peddals
SB 5:1 Live

Extra cooling fans ( heat never was a problem, or is)

NUTTZ

Title: Getting really PO'd.
Post by: easymo on April 02, 2001, 07:26:00 PM

 Hard locks and dumps to desktop. Not as bad as patch 2, But it is still happening.

 Pisser is, they fixed the lock ups when ppl enter an arena. Now its back to square one.