splashman

new info, it is somehow related to the weather. Same mission, only weather changes: - autumn with clouds & fog crashes - summer with clouds is OK - summer with clouds & heavy fog is OK Have to check with same fog settings summer & autumn. First thought it was the fog but now seems more like it is autumn?!? Will make more tests at the weekend.

Thx, i'll try the memory test. I'm not sure if i was ever in the region of 1.3GB memory usage. Might be that the system specs are a little bit low, but my system at work is Intel E6850@3GHz / 3GB / Vista and this one beats the work system at least in some apps ( eg. compile time ). Until now i had no stability problems, gamewise mostly IL2 and a short period of Crysis. Don't know why but it looks like some missions are more likely to crash than others. Yesterday i tried the Command Center 2 mission. This one brings my system to the low tenth in fps (10-15). But i could play for nearly an hour until a different type of crash occured. This time with crash logs. IIRC everytime the system crashed i used a weapon, mostly the gun. At the weekend i'll try to do some test if i can simply fly for a longer time, if i don't touch the SHKVAL or the weapons. Edit: oh, btw. might be that the sound problems and the freezes are unrelated. I also had a freeze ( Shader-Error) without any previous sound issues. Thanks for your help.

hi all, still no joy :( i even bought a sound card to get rid of the onboard sound but it didn't help much. Perhaps now the sound fades a little bit later. I installed the latest drivers for the graphics card as well. Whenever the screen freezes i have problems with a shader, like: "CreatePixelShader("Bazar\Effects\RenderEffects\Shaders\FlareTrail.psh"), D3DERR_INVALIDCALL." But the concrete shader varies. Still hoping for help. thx Error.zip

OK, doing this in the editor and using 'Prepare ...' did it. But i realy thought that saving ABRIS data would be possible whenever i play the mission normally. thx a lot

Thx, will give it another try.

Hi, i have a similar problem. I'm unable to save data into the permanent storage (Hard disk). Should something visible happen when i press Save under Ctrl/Dbt?!? If i restart the mission i have no Flight Plan that i can load in the Plan mode. Even tried to load data from permanent storage but i get only some Copy button. Is there anybody who was able to save additional ABRIS data into a mission-file? Any help appreciated Thanks in advance

Hi, i have some problems when i play missions. First everything is fine, then somteime in the mission my sound fades. Sometimes i can go in outside view and then i hear sounds again. If that happens (sound fading), almost allways some time after that the screen freezes. I can press ESC and ENTER, this will close the mission and opens the debrief screen. Sometimes i have crash logs, sometimes not. But today i have at least an error log, which indicates sound related memory problems. Task manager shows ~1.2 G total memory usage during play, system is equipped with 2GB. I'm using on board sound AC97. This happens in nine out of ten missions i fly. :( Perhaps someone has an idea? Edit: some additional info. I have seen, that a track of the last mission is in the temp folder. Watching the track (after program restart) the sound fading happens even earlier and the screen freeze happens at exactly the same moment (firing cannon ). Edit2, 05.02.2009: :huh: Read about someone else problem which started after he overclocked his system. Well, my system was overclocked as well. I restored the default settings and started flying. First mission was my simple test mission, which until now produces screen freezes (almost) every time. This time sound fadings and helicopter turning transparent in outside view as well. after trying to pop a colour marker a crash, but this time a real crash with crashlog. That was clearly a different behaviour. Then i continued the started campaign, where i was stuck at the 'Alarm' mission with constant screen freezes. :thumbup: Not a single hickup, no sound fadings and no screen freeze. Flew the mission three times to check. After that flew the next two missions in the campaign, from which i had to repeat the night mission two times, also not a single problem! So this is 6-7 missions in a row without a problem, looks promising. I have no clue why i now can run all the missions without problems as the overclocked system ran flawlessly with all other applications i normally use. Now i can enjoy this great product as well, thx. Edit3, 07.02.2009 :( Back to square one, freezes reappeared. So at least overclocking had nothing to do with it. It appears that it is totally random, but comes in blocks. Either i have a freeze in (nearly) every mission or i can play several missions without problems. Perhaps i'll download it again and make a reinstall with the new download. If that doesn't work, well there's a patch coming and if that doesn't work either, perhaps Oleg will release his baby late this year and then i'll buy a new system. <snip DXDiag output> Errors.zip