Terrain loading bug?

[kamilyun]

After playing in the offline mode, I get a lock up when trying to enter the MA.

Sequence:

1. Start AH2.
2. Select Offline mode
3. Play/practice
4. Exit offline mode (to first AH2 menu)
5. Select Online mode
6. Login
7. Select main arena.
8. Graphics load to card/mem when the "load terrain" sequence is reached, I get lockup.

System specs/settings available upon request...

[fuzeman]

Here's the request. Lets see those specs and settings.
What happens if you exit completely and restart the game completely?
Remember with new versions update your firewall settings if you use one.
Always turn off virus programs while running AH2 and while downloading any patches or the whole game if you go that route.

[kamilyun]

Originally posted by fuzeman
Here's the request. Lets see those specs and settings.
What happens if you exit completely and restart the game completely?
Remember with new versions update your firewall settings if you use one.
Always turn off virus programs while running AH2 and while downloading any patches or the whole game if you go that route.

Specs...

Modest/low-end system:

Celeron 2.8
512 RAM
Nvidia 5700 w/ 256 Vid Mem
Plenty o' hard drive

Settings...um...just how Hitech told us to do it for the terrain optimization???

I do preload textures to vid mem.

I have all the graphics detail sliders to "performance"

Disable skins, GV effects, etc.

Virus programs off.  Firewall program always asks me after a new install to let AH2 run...

The one thing that DOES work is if I completely exit, then start back up.  So the problem is ONLY in switching from offline to online mode.

[AKDogg]

Don't preload to video memory.  Preload to system memory but don't preload skins.  The skin cache is to large now for most systems.  My system I preload both to video memory and system memory but without the skins.

My system is a AMD64 3200 1 gig ram, ATI X800XL 256 meg.

The 5700 doesn't have the throughput to cache to it.

Radeon X800
 400 MHz
 4800 MTexels/s
 256-bits
 GDDR3
 350 MHz
 22.40 GB/s  <---This is the number to look at.
 
Radeon X800 XL
 400 MHz
 6400 MTexels/s
 256-bits
 GDDR3
 500 MHz
 32.00 GB/s
 
Radeon X800 Pro
 475 MHz
 5700 MTexels/s
 256-bits
 GDDR3
 475 MHz
 30.40
 
GeForce FX 5700 VE
 NA
 NA
 128-bits
 DDR
 NA
 NA
 
GeForce FX 5700 LE
 250 MHz
 1000 MTexels/s
 128-bits
 DDR
 200 MHz
 6.40 GB/s
 
GeForce FX 5700
 425 MHz
 1700 MTexels/s
 128-bits
 DDR
 300 MHz
 9.60 GB/s
 
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
 475 MHz
 1900 MTexels/s
 128-bits
 DDR II
 450 MHz
 14.40 GB/s
 
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (GDDR3)
 475 MHz
 1900 MTexels/s
 128-bits
 GDDR3
 450 MHz
 14.40 GB/s