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Title: Offline crashes
Post by: Pyro on April 14, 2008, 01:11:16 PM: The offline crashes on certain machines with Patch 3 is a memory allocation issue related to drones in the practice missions. This will be fixed in the next patch and it has no impact on online play or performance. In the meantime, you can try the following workarounds to get it running if you have this problem. Try to turn off the texture preload options in your video settings if you have them enabled. Also make sure that you have all unnecessary programs and processes shutdown before running AH in offline mode. Anything that's eating up memory on your system may cause this problem to surface. If none of that works, you're probably not going to be able to run it offline until a patch is released. Finally, let me repeat that this problem is only in the offline practice mode and it has no effect on online play.
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: Strip on April 14, 2008, 06:42:11 PM: Are we talking short term or long term for a patch to come out?

Strip
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: watanna on April 14, 2008, 09:15:38 PM: Pyro: Thankyou for addressing this issue. I never would have dreamed a memory issue would have affected this machine. Good luck on the patch and again thanks blt280
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: Alky on April 20, 2008, 02:52:01 PM: Quote from: Pyro on April 14, 2008, 01:11:16 PM
Try to turn off the texture preload options in your video settings if you have them enabled.
My offline practice/missions crash every time to the "encountered error must close down" error.
I don't have the pre-load turned on but I had texture size set to 512. I thought perhaps the offline stuff needed to be set at 1024, so I changed it... no soap :frown:
I guess I'll need to wait till there's a patch.

System Information
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Time of this report: 4/20/2008, 12:45:42
Machine name: THE_BEAST
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Compaq Presario 061
System Model: EX321AA-ABA SR1930NX NA630
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 557MB used, 1804MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

Display Devices
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Card name: Radeon X1600/X1650 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x71C2)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C2&SUBSYS_23421002&REV_00
Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 960 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6734 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 11/1/2007 20:09:00, 268288 bytes
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: fuzeman on April 21, 2008, 05:51:02 PM: I only have the original practice missions loaded and I can run offline but it does take a long time to load. I recently got a icon in taskbar stating that Windows was going to increase my virtual memory.
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: wantok on April 22, 2008, 08:07:48 PM: Great stuff... 2.12 patch 4 has fixed the offline-crash problem (for me, anyway).
Title: Re: Offline crashes
Post by: Alky on April 22, 2008, 08:44:59 PM: Ahhh yes!!! it's all good now with this patch! Thank You Pyro and the rest of the crew!! :aok :aok :salute :cool: