prob after 1.12 patch

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

Ok, ever since ive updated to 1.12, lomac is crashing on me more often thatn before.

 

its related to dxrenderer, and also when makeing missions at times the options are greyed out and i cannot click on them ?

 

any ideas ?, dxdiag is perfect no faults there, and no other faults in other games, just this one and only since i updated from 1.11 to 1.12...

 

event manager results.

 

words =

 

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0020: 302e322e 206e6920 676e7568 20707061

0030: 2e302e30 20302e30 6f207461 65736666

0040: 30302074 30303030 3030

 

 

bytes =

 

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang

0010: 20 20 6c 6f 63 6b 6f 6e lockon

0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 31 .exe 1.1

0020: 2e 32 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 .2.0 in

0028: 68 75 6e 67 61 70 70 20 hungapp

0030: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 0.0.0.0

0038: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse

0040: 74 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 t 000000

0048: 30 30 00

 

 

2nd instance.

 

bytes =

 

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6c 6f 63 ure loc

0018: 6b 6f 6e 2e 65 78 65 20 kon.exe

0020: 31 2e 31 2e 30 2e 30 20 1.1.0.0

0028: 69 6e 20 64 78 72 65 6e in dxren

0030: 64 65 72 65 72 2e 64 6c derer.dl

0038: 6c 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e l 0.0.0.

0040: 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 0 at off

0048: 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 33 set 0003

0050: 36 66 66 31 0d 0a 6ff1..

 

 

words =

 

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0010: 20657275 636f6c20 2e6e6f6b 20657865

0020: 2e312e31 20302e30 64206e69 6e657278

0030: 65726564 6c642e72 2e30206c 2e302e30

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0050: 31666636 0a0d

 

 

 

whether this helps anyopne i dunno, it probably wont but there ya go.

[Pilotasso]

That sure is strange. Game crashes and PC crashes due to LOMAC are almost zero to me now.

[Shaman]

LockOn never worked that well on my system, Evil. It seems I don't have any graphics lockups (gone mad because of this before) and black screens. Are you sure nothing has changed in your system recently? As far with my little knowledge about you, you are changing (experimenting) your hardware/software (drivers) very very often :)

[Pilotasso]

yeah Scoty, just clean your system of old drivers and do a clean reintall of the GFX. Updating the drivers all the time makes matters worse. I stll use CAT 5.2! :)

bear in mind that LOMAC doesnt support cards in SLI either, the drivers force it instead. I heard not all of them worked right with LOMAC. One more reason to believe you have a mixed array of driver GFX files from different versions.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

yea, i will admit, i have a shitload of different vid drivers installed in the last few weeks, but i driver cleaner pro'd em, so they all be gone, but i dunno, when it crashes it also locksup the pc and auto reboots even tho i have the auto reboot on crash tab unticked, so basically it should give me BSOD instead of a reboot, but all this happened after i installed 1.12. Its maybe just a coincidence that it happened at the same time, maybe it has todo with sli or somethin, am not really sure, but i was gonna kill lockon and reinstall it properly when the new 1.12 came out, cuz i patched from 1.11 and this time i aint gonna do that.

 

but we will see if there is any change...

[Toady]

bear in mind that LOMAC doesnt support cards in SLI either, the drivers force it instead.

 

Now I find out. :icon_eek: Typical. :( :)

[diveplane]

yea, i will admit, i have a shitload of different vid drivers installed in the last few weeks, but i driver cleaner pro'd em, so they all be gone, but i dunno, when it crashes it also locksup the pc and auto reboots even tho i have the auto reboot on crash tab unticked, so basically it should give me BSOD instead of a reboot, but all this happened after i installed 1.12. Its maybe just a coincidence that it happened at the same time, maybe it has todo with sli or somethin, am not really sure, but i was gonna kill lockon and reinstall it properly when the new 1.12 came out, cuz i patched from 1.11 and this time i aint gonna do that.

 

but we will see if there is any change...

 

 

setup your video card first drivers etc, then do a fresh install off lockon and patches

 

only enable 1 video card to run lockon ...

[Toady]

I've got a couple of NVidia 6800's running SLI mode and couldnt see a difference between SLI or single GPU using fraps for FPS.

More or less 25-30fps looking around with 50/50 sky / ground in veiw. All setings max'd except water/med, heat blur/off and shadows/active planar res 1152x864.

Whats the story with SLI as I havent heard of this before? :confused:

 

Also use TIR4. :)

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

the story is, sli isnt that great with lockon, it does work to some extent, as when you have the gpu load thingy on, certain views will make it work, but the majority of the time i find it isnt doing anything beneficial to lockon and i dont notice an fps increase either, probably cuz slomac is a cpu limited game instead of gpu.

[Romik]

EVIL, that log you posted doesn't providing any usefull information. You should look at DrWatson's log (Drwtsn32.log). It may give you a clue (however some experience is needed cause there is a lot of info)

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/drwatson_logfile.mspx

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

i didnt think it did, i just added it to add some substance to my post :D

 

i normally use windbg tool, but there was nothing to debug after the crashes ???

[warthogmadman987]

Speaking of video cards-

i thought i would just reply by saying that my dad just bought a new ATI 1800XT video card. My computer contains a ATI 9800. but before my dad bought this card he had an nvida 7800. I just want to say how much better his new card is. It is amazing. He can run lomac everything on high and get between 60-85 fps. When loaded with many airplanes and vehicles he still never gets below 40 fps. Not only is it tons faster but for some reason lockon looks better. the only game that the nvida can compare with is bf2, just because it was made specifically for nvidias. i recomend this card for everyone!

ps-he did by a refurbished one for 312$ plus shipping, but now the refurbished one cost more because there arent any left. keep in mind that brand new ones are only about 80$ more. when he got it it was a bigger gap.

Also he bought a new mother board, he thought about doing sli but decided against it.

 

sad part- i will never et to fly 1.1 on his computer until starforce is removed, which will be never.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

7800>1800 1900>7800

[Toady]

the story is, sli isnt that great with lockon, it does work to some extent, as when you have the gpu load thingy on, certain views will make it work, but the majority of the time i find it isnt doing anything beneficial to lockon and i dont notice an fps increase either, probably cuz slomac is a cpu limited game instead of gpu.

 

Cheers Evil. :D

Time to upgrade the FX55 then. Dont reckon the Wife will go for it though. :icon_axe:

[ViperVJG73]

He can run lomac everything on high and get between 60-85 fps. When loaded with many airplanes and vehicles he still never gets below 40 fps.

 

Hello,

no no,

when your fly an approach to Krasnodar-Center, you will have no more as 25 FPS with a new ATI Radeon X1800XT or X1900XTX ! :D

 

Kind Regards

[Pilotasso]

I've got a couple of NVidia 6800's running SLI mode and couldnt see a difference between SLI or single GPU using fraps for FPS.

More or less 25-30fps looking around with 50/50 sky / ground in veiw. All setings max'd except water/med, heat blur/off and shadows/active planar res 1152x864.

Whats the story with SLI as I havent heard of this before? :confused:

 

Also use TIR4. :)

 

As far as I can remenber, and as I said Lomac doesnt support SLI internaly, certain drivers attempt to force it in games. I recall that only a few versions actualy worked with LOMAC properly, so if your not using one such version youll probably not having any SLI mode working at all with the game, hence the indiference of your FPS. I have ATI so I diddnt memorize wich versions do work with SLI in LOMAC, someone else has to tell that info for you.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

split frame rate is the best sli option for lomac, but single gpu is still the best way to go, as split frame only works at certain times/views and its mainly externals views i noticed the gpu load thingy working on. In the cockpit it is basically just 1 gpu doing the work.

 

viper is also correct, no fuxing way does anyone get uber leet fps with every single item on high, unless there screen size is 640x400 or some shit like that.

 

I certainly cant get 80+ or even 40+ down low near krasnodar, but up high i can get lots of fps, down low away from krasnodar with the 25t with everything except water at high i get max of 40ish fps roughly and thats in the pit, outside views can get real high, but i aint flying from external so i dont care what external fps are. thats with 4-8aa and 16af, normally its 4aa.

 

Krasnodar with everything up high makes my game into a slide show, to be able to make it any good, id have to change monitors to a lower resolution one, and even then it is still slideshow bob :p

 

I dont run any fps tweaks or any other mods.

 

So any one who comes onto these boards and posts 80+ fps near krasnodar with everything up high = lies, it can be done but not with max game settings and also with aa and af to either very very low or turned off and a really small resolution etc...

 

thats my opinion anyway.

 

btw, i formatted this afternoon, so here's hopein that my probs are over, i forgot just how quick this thing is, after it was formatted, it only took windows less than 10 minutes to install from a retail windows xp disc, no image backups, pure original xp disc :D

[Toady]

Cheers guys. :)

[emenance]

Dont forget to run memtest86 once in a while, I had some laying around from my old comp and started to build a new comp with it for sale. Ran memtest on the mem and found one of the sticks bad after about a year of use. Corsair should have me new sticks within a week, not even a reciept required.

 

Needless to say I was a little surprised. I ran the mem at 2.8 volts. 2.7 default.

 

Reason I say this is because it may have been causing me some problems right before my switch to 64 bit platform. The error happened in test one and was very minimal resulting in a very minute screw ups and that why I think i didnt catch it.