General protection failure with weather.dll

[JAFO6105]

Hi all,

 

Since yesterday i'm getting a GPF with weather.dll when i try to launch a mission with overcast.

 

Anyone an idea ?

 

My system :

 

P4 3.2ghz

GF 7800GS

1.5 go DDR

audigy 2 zs

wxppro up to date

 

Thx

[NEODARK]

No, but if you figure it out, let me know... I had this for a while now and I cannot correct it. (unless I turn off anisotropic filtering in the CP, and that sometimes doesnt work)

 

it's also random, sometimes the mission will load, sometimes it wont. Sucks cause I need AF..

[igsoft2000]

Geeez, I just posted very similar problem on the board. Overcast weather mission crashes if I have Anti Aliasing on (2, or 4, whaterver). Only way I can play this is either switch off AA or install overcast mod.

I am going to try low the graphics card memory speed tonight. If you guys find a fix let me know.

 

Thanks

[JAFO6105]

Hi,

 

I did not manage to solve the problem and finally reinstall all the stuff :furious: . it's working fine now but i still can't explain what happened.

 

Thanks anyway for your answers.

[NEODARK]

No idea...

 

it has to be some mod thats installed I guess.

[zenTera]

For me this problem seemed to be gone with 1.12 but reintroduced with 1.12a. Very strange, no changes in graphics driver or settings or whatever (nVidia 7800 GTX 512 with 81.12).

My workaround: Launch LockOn, quit LockOn without flying, launch LockOn again. Don't ask me why, but most of the time this works with overcast and any bad weather conditions.

[NEODARK]

thanks, I'll have to give that a try :)

[igsoft2000]

So no one knows yet why we having this probme huh?

I still get this problem but only if I have AA on. I used to be able to run if AAx2 but not no AA works.

[igsoft2000]

fix found

 

I found the fix for this problem :lol:. On my computer, this fix didn't only fix weather.dll issue but improved image quality and FPS greatly. Now I can play LockOn with 8AA(SLI) or 16AA(SLI) with much higher frame rate:D .

 

Basically the fix was replacing lock on renderer from general directX renderer to nv4_disp.dll by modifying graphics.cfg.

 

No more weather.dll error even at 16xAA, better image quality with 10%~60% higher higher frame rates. I now only get limitted by CPU even at 16AA + 8AF + high quality mode + super sampling tansparent AA in overcast weather!

 

I can not believe I never knew this all these years.:doh:

[igsoft2000]

This sounds very stupid.

I did some more gogle search on DXrenderer.dll with lockon. Apperantly this fix is nothing but a BS. However I swore my life that I couldn't even get AA working on overcast weather last for 6~12months.

If I have 8SLI AA it was slowing down the game noticably. Now I can play 8SLIAA or 16SLIAA easy no slowdown on anywhere. I didn't do anything else but changing graphics.cfg yesterday. I even restarted my PC to confirm I really have the fix. Even after restarting my PC it worked beautifully.

 

 

Anyways heres some reply from the developer.

 

 

Even if he's right, it's some quantum effects. You can't just replace our renderer with some other dll. This is stupid, frankly speaking.

 

And note, LockOn logs (it should) that it can't load that dll, and uses the default one (surprise, it is DXRenderer.dll).

 

By Dmitry S. Baikov aka c0ff

Developer / Eagle Dynamics

[zaelu]

Any chance that this bug will be repaired in future version? ...in BS, or the patch after BS.

 

The trick with nv4_disp.dll is just a looney and the restart of the game before entering the mission sometimes works... but, most of the times doesn't.

 

 

Maybe a more complex weather system.... now we have basicaly "no clouds", "clouds" and "overcast" (aka CTD :D ) although we have 10 steps.

 

 

Please?

[Kuky]

I got the overcast mission working by using weather.dll file from backup 1.1 folder. Worked with water on high and AA/AF on.

[zaelu]

I switched the weather.dll file with the one from 1.1 and it worked... once. The second atempt failed :( .

 

The game was started both times just once (system restart between the 2 attempts) and the mission (the same) loaded right away. First time worked... second failed.

[Kuky]

bummer... you're right... I just tried it again and I got CTD as well :(

[zaelu]

maybe is the weather... :megalol:

 

It's sad that we have to strip the game from this nice feature. From 9 preset weather forms we have just one... basicaly :cry: