Author Topic: Skins stuck on boston3.res  (Read 607 times)

Offline Cluzig

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Skins stuck on boston3.res
« on: November 04, 2020, 06:10:33 PM »
My skin downloads in game seem to be stuck on a BostonIII res file or files. I tried deleting the offending files to see if that'd fix it.


I seem to be forever downloading them in the background after a patch?
Is it best download the large skin files and install after every patch?

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Re: Skins stuck on boston3.res
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2020, 02:11:33 AM »
Bear in mind that AH3-era bombers (A-20, Boston, Ki-67, Ar 234, Ju-88) are based on 4096 x 2048 res bmp files. That means they have eight times the data and so will take around eight times as long to download as a 1024 x 1024 res skin.

Offline Cluzig

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Re: Skins stuck on boston3.res
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2020, 01:15:59 PM »
I was not aware of that Greebo but thank you for the data and also for your skin work. However this issue is persistent and began weeks ago. Perhaps 2 patches ago. It's with Boston only res files.
 
Bear in mind that AH3-era bombers (A-20, Boston, Ki-67, Ar 234, Ju-88) are based on 4096 x 2048 res bmp files. That means they have eight times the data and so will take around eight times as long to download as a 1024 x 1024 res skin.

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Re: Skins stuck on boston3.res
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2020, 02:45:01 AM »
Probably best then to go onto the AH Skins download site and download them from there.

Offline Cluzig

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Re: Skins stuck on boston3.res
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2020, 01:10:10 PM »
Probably best then to go onto the AH Skins download site and download them from there.

Yes that fixed it. Thanks.