Going to offline practice crashes game

[Yossarian]

I'm having the same problem when I try and go offline.

For me, the game just froze whilst trying to load the offline things (terrains, I think).

[Spikes]

Offline:
Mine doesn't crash, but it freezes at Terrain Complete, and finally loads about 10 minutes later...(ndisles). When in offline I switched from A1 to P21 it took about 3 minutes, P21 tower to P21 hanger, 2 minutes...it is sooooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[wantok]

Which terrain(s) are being loaded? (Go to 'Select Terrain' off the main menu and note the highlighted terrain name.)

I get a crash to desktop while loading Offline Practice (or trying to host LAN 8-player) with every terrain I have (I've checked all of them):

beta2
compello
coralsea
festerma
frac3
midway1
mmesa
montis
ndisles
smpizza

Don't know if it's useful, but here's the crash info from the Vista crash dialog:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   aceshigh.exe
  Application Version:   0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   47fbabd9
  Fault Module Name:   aceshigh.exe
  Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   47fbabd9
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   0001ef83
  OS Version:   6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   3081
  Additional Information 1:   8d13
  Additional Information 2:   cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34 311
  Additional Information 3:   8d13
  Additional Information 4:   cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34 311

[VonMessa]

Same here.  Aces High blah blah has encountered a problem blah blah. 

Really frustrating, since I a trying to tidy up a skin for submission.  I don't like rebuilding cache every time I use skin viewer.

Please help.

[AKDogg]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

[lagger86]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

I have the option unchecked(though I couldn't check it if I wanted to for some reason) and it still crashes.

[Lusche]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

Don't have and never had skins preloaded.

[lagger86]

  are there any solutions? 

[Blammo]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

Interesting.  I just tried this and it worked for me.  I can get into the Offline mode now.  Strange the problem does not happen in Online.

[Lusche]

Even with textures not preloading, I can't get into offline play. The last thing I see in that case  is "Terrain Complete", then a brief pause and: "Aces High has encountered..."

[wantok]

Likewise, preload textures has always been disabled for me (something to do with the video card capabilities perhaps? - GeForce 8400M GS in a Dell laptop) and I am still getting consistent crash to desktop after the terrain load when entering Offline.

[VonMessa]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

Whew..........

Thx.  Must be a PA thing.

[Spikes]

I had same problem till I removed the check for skins preload.  Skins preload is crashing Offline.  Try it without Skin preload in video settings just before u click offline.

Mine was already unchecked...

[Yossarian]

Mine was already unchecked as well, and I don't have the option to recheck it.

[AKDogg]

Try changing resolution.  I remember I was able to go in 1 time before i figured out it was something with the skins preload on my machine.