help with film viewer

[sethipus]

I have not been able to get the film viewer to spit out an avi file.  No matter what size I choose, or which codec, the film viewer just hangs and spits out a 0 byte avi file.

I'm on an Athlon64 X2 processor, and no matter which patches I applied, in the end I had to set the Aces High client to Win98 compat mode, and the same with the film viewer.  Could this be a multi-core AMD cpu problem?

What's the trick to getting the film viewer to save out to an avi file properly?

Which codec do you guys use, or do you use the "full frame" one?

[Kermit de frog]

http://www.fraps.com


download the free version.  Buy it if you like it.  It's cheap.

Use this software to capture your footage.  The Film Viewer is unreliable and should not be used to convert the ahf to avi.

[sethipus]

Originally posted by Kermit de frog
http://www.fraps.com


download the free version.  Buy it if you like it.  It's cheap.

Use this software to capture your footage.  The Film Viewer is unreliable and should not be used to convert the ahf to avi.

Thanks Kermit!  I just downloaded and installed it.  So, you just set it to capture video, and then set the film viewer to full screen and play it?

[Kermit de frog]

Yes, and as you get more experience, you'll learn a few tricks to better footage.

I.E. Start playback of the film you want captured a few seconds early, this way you'll get everything loaded up with no white squares when you first switch to full screen.

[sethipus]

So far I'm having trouble with the AHviewer replaying with a lot of hitching and such when trying to record using FRAPS.  I set my resolution down to 1280x1024 in order to lessen the burden on the machine (I normally play at 1920x1200) and told Fraps to only record 1/2 of the resolution.

My machine uses an Athlon64 X2 4400, and a Geforce 8800gtx, with 3gb of RAM, so it's not like it's a slouch or anything.

Since no application can use more than 2gb of RAM at once, I set up a 400mb ram disk and set Fraps to write to the ram disk in order to eliminate one possible reason for the hitching.

I'm still getting hitching during playback, which shows up in the Fraps video.

One thing that might have something to do with it is that I have never gotten any of the "multi-core AMD cpu bug" fixes to work, other than setting AHII and AHfilm viewer to Win98/ME compatibility mode.  I play the game just fine this way.  I really wish, though, that I could get AHII playing properly, without the spinning clipboard problem, without being in Win98 compat mode.  I'm totally losing out on multi-threaded benefits.

[Denholm]

I believe on multi-core CPU's you have to limit it to one core before you can play AH without so many issues.

[HitM]

Is there a way in the film viewer to move the viewpoint to say a 1000 feet from the ground?  I would like to be able to see up close the results of some of my high alt bombing.

Thanks and good health to you and yours.

[Denholm]

You could ask someone to record some god's eye film of your bomb run, then you take the film, hit "gun camera" to eliminate the hovering aircraft/vehicle/boat that comes with God's Eye film, and get the camera angle you want.