bought Black Shark today and only problems

[JG11Preusse]

Okai, the most obvious blunders I've seen was - and which you havent done, already asked you about those:

- Someone overwrote their Blackshark.lua with Joystick configuration.

- Someone installed extra LUA tools because they were editing some scripts.

- Quite alot has edited their LUA/CFG files using notepad instead of "Notepad++"

- NTFS/volume problems, chkdsk solved it. Had to reinstall BS after that on a working Drive (the previous files was broken since they installed before the disks were fixed).

- Virus (reinstall of Windows was the only solution).

- Other ATI mysteries, changing adapter or finding a working driver.

- Anti-virus / Anti malware blocking some important files during install.

- Other Windows mysteries.

 

Also:

- Early DCS:BS 1.0.1a patches may have problems with "Localized Windows versions", where you had to change all the Regional settings to "US/EN" to be able to play.

This was fixed in later versions.

 

Now thats about all the ideas I have.

1. Someone overwrote their Blackshark.lua with Joystick configuration

2. Someone installed extra LUA tools because they were editing some scripts.

3. Quite alot has edited their LUA/CFG files using notepad instead of "Notepad++"

4. NTFS/volume problems, chkdsk solved it. Had to reinstall BS after that on a working Drive (the previous files was broken since they installed before the disks were fixed).

5. Virus (reinstall of Windows was the only solution).

6. Other ATI mysteries, changing adapter or finding a working driver.

7. Anti-virus / Anti malware blocking some important files during install.

8. Other Windows mysteries

 

1. how this can happen ? ... only i use this notebook and after a fresh installation nothing works

2. no tool herew .. for what, i never was able to start it until now

3. maybe a lot people do this, i only wanted to use the game

4. chkdsk allready performed and as i tought before: "no problems"

5. you can 100% sure that this will be not the reason

6. changing adapter ????? are you serious ??? everything works perfekt ... only this 1 software dont

7. many german users told me, that antivir dont makkes any problems, they also toldd me which programms make problems

8. no idea .. maybe

 

this all is guess guess guess guess ........ are also officials from the vendor or from the programmers of this peace of software are here ?

 

i wrote an email many days ago to the bs support, diddnt got any answer until today. maybe they dont answer via email, because they idenbtified me here ... that will be absolute ok.

 

 

im really pissed of and belive it or not, this is the first time in my life (means 45 years) that i engaged such problems.

 

thx to all who tries to help

andi

[JG11Preusse]

Have you tried disable x-fi or fast-writes?

 

In the end, if you don't want Vista, try W7 reinstall.

 

yes i wrote this allready .. is disabled xifi, unplugged it without any change.

 

fast writes disable option is not existant in my bios

[Panzertard]

Preusse, dont worry - I gave you just some insight on "what I've seen" reagarding similar problems - you didnt have to answer them. :)

They are just "food for thought" - an indication that there can be so many things that affects a game on a PC.

[JG11Preusse]

Preusse, dont worry - I gave you just some insight on "what I've seen" reagarding similar problems - you didnt have to answer them. :)

They are just "food for thought" - an indication that there can be so many things that affects a game on a PC.

 

dont worry .... im very happy that you all try to help me, also if i sound angry sometimes :)

 

forgive me, when im not as friendly with my words, as i have to .... its not because you friendly people ... its because i try now so many hour everything what you recommend me and nothing wants to work :)

[Panzertard]

Thank you, Preusse. I can understand your frustration - I thank you for being able to post here in a good tone even when you are angry. :)

I hope there are someone else being able to come up with an idea that can solve your problem.

[JG11Preusse]

Thank you, Preusse. I can understand your frustration - I thank you for being able to post here in a good tone even when you are angry. :)

I hope there are someone else being able to come up with an idea that can solve your problem.

 

what will happen, if i try following drivers, also when there is a statement, that toshiba an other verndors are not supported ?

 

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-64.aspx

 

ok ... fan issues are very important and can toast the video card, but i cant find any other video drivers at toshiba homepage

[Distiler]

Perhaps, with the upcoming compatibility patch for DCS:Ka-50 with FC2, the problem might be magically solved. Oh informatics!

[Panzertard]

what will happen, if i try following drivers, also when there is a statement, that toshiba an other verndors are not supported ?

 

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-64.aspx

 

ok ... fan issues are very important and can toast the video card, but i cant find any other video drivers at toshiba homepage

Since I've worked in that business too (and for a Toshiba partner) - "not supported" means "if you get trouble, we'll not help you until you use our drivers. If you have a hardware problem, we will reinstall your PC with original Toshiba Images".

So you can safely test other drivers - don't expect everyone of them to work, but if you know how to use safeboot and clean it out again later, then you may be fine.

[JG11Preusse]

Since I've worked in that business too (and for a Toshiba partner) - "not supported" means "if you get trouble, we'll not help you until you use our drivers. If you have a hardware problem, we will reinstall your PC with original Toshiba Images".

So you can safely test other drivers - don't expect everyone of them to work, but if you know how to use safeboot and clean it out again later, then you may be fine.

 

you thinks its worth to test them ? on my on risk .. thats clear :)

[Distiler]

Well, yes, you can install latest catalyst ati drivers from amd/ati website and monitor gpu temp (you have gpu-z installed).

[JG11Preusse]

Well, yes, you can install latest catalyst ati drivers from amd/ati website and monitor gpu temp (you have gpu-z installed).

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-64.aspx

 

here is the link and the site says, that the drivers are about 68.7 mb big, but hitting the download button, i get a file about 1 mb big ???

[JG11Preusse]

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...b_win7-64.aspx

 

here is the link and the site says, that the drivers are about 68.7 mb big, but hitting the download button, i get a file about 1 mb big ???

 

 

the 1 mb tool for downloading the driver told me, that i cant use this drivers due to incompatibility :)

 

 

any chance to get the drivers downloaded ?

Edited April 14, 2010 by JG11Preusse

[Distiler]

Probably from http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/Pages/underground.aspx

[JG11Preusse]

Probably from http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/Pages/underground.aspx

 

there are also the mobile card drivers or only the desktop ones ?

[topdog]

I'm not too familiar with ATI drivers (having had some bad experiences in the past, I've kept my distance even though more recent hardware may be completely different).

 

So as I was suggesting to a friend in a gaming group that his own problems might be solved by using a different version of the ATI drivers, another friend in the group (who is quite knowledgeable on business PC hardware) had this to say.

 

I thought it might be worth sharing for your situation of ATI + Laptop too:

 

There are no "recentish" drivers for mobile graphics cards when it comes to ATI. You only get what the manufacturer gives you... however you use:

 

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/modtool.php

 

Then download the most recent driver and use that tool on it and install them.

 

Isn't something I can comment on having tried myself of course, but I know the level of skill/experience of the person making this advice so I would definitely consider it.

[Nasty]

you say game temp folder? i mean look that link what i sent there is WINDOWS LOG when windows write them when something crash maybe there someone got some glue why that crash. if i remember right there is windows log where is category aplication , security etc etc look there.

 

best way is clean that logs u can save them if u want then take reboot start game , and go look what come there logs.

[JG11Preusse]

I'm not too familiar with ATI drivers (having had some bad experiences in the past, I've kept my distance even though more recent hardware may be completely different).

 

So as I was suggesting to a friend in a gaming group that his own problems might be solved by using a different version of the ATI drivers, another friend in the group (who is quite knowledgeable on business PC hardware) had this to say.

 

I thought it might be worth sharing for your situation of ATI + Laptop too:

 

 

 

Isn't something I can comment on having tried myself of course, but I know the level of skill/experience of the person making this advice so I would definitely consider it.

 

 

tried it with the 10.3 drivers ... same issue still

[JG11Preusse]

you say game temp folder? i mean look that link what i sent there is WINDOWS LOG when windows write them when something crash maybe there someone got some glue why that crash. if i remember right there is windows log where is category aplication , security etc etc look there.

 

best way is clean that logs u can save them if u want then take reboot start game , and go look what come there logs.

 

ah sorry i mixed it up ... allready have a sceen shot published here many many posts before here in the thread.

 

 

must be found at one off the first pages here :)

[JG11Preusse]

after all this driver install, deinstall, install others and so on, i tried lock on fc2 again, to be sure i dont messed up my system now .... everything works fine (still) :)

[JG11Preusse]

is it possible to get a cd/dvd version of this game instead the download version ?????

 

heard now from some people, that the downloadversion makes much trouble.

 

who can answer this question ? ...... emailsupport is never answers something, but maybe the reason can be for this issue, that they found me here with my problems ???

[EtherealN]

There is no difference between DVD and Download. They are entirely identical, except that the DVD version delivers the installer via DVD instead of download (which is convenient for people with capped connections or dialup.) If people had issues with the download and not the DVD this would be caused by connection issues.

[EtherealN]

who can answer this question ? ...... emailsupport is never answers something, but maybe the reason can be for this issue, that they found me here with my problems ???

 

The individual who would most likely respond to your e-mail has posted in this thread. ;)

[JG11Preusse]

The individual who would most likely respond to your e-mail has posted in this thread. ;)

 

ah ok ... that was what i thought before, but was not sure.

 

so i can say, that the support is exellent.

 

no idea what i can try tomorrow ...... i know your suggestions will also go to an end after all this tries and testings.

 

no joke .... this is the first game im not able to use in my whole computer carieer :)

 

i engaged some problems with some pieces of software, but bs tops everything :)

 

i guess the last one i engaged problems (meant real problems, like i have now) was with a10-cuba ..... its long time ago and i cant really remember what the problem was, but i guess i wasnt able to use a joystick with this game.

 

all in all i use computers since c64 . ... upgraded to amiga, tuned amiga, pc 386 derviate with cyrix cpu and on and on and on.

 

until i started to use notebooks instead of desktops, i build my computers myself. not the first 2 ones, but afterwards all of them.

 

if someone of my friends, my neighbours, theis friends, famaily or colleagues ..... everyone came to me to ask to solve their computer problems.

 

ok ..... after windows 98 i stopped to get informed in time. now i arrived at widows 7 , after i had win xp for a long time and then change to vista 64 for a short time, due to the system change to this notebook.

greetings an a good night for today

andi

[EtherealN]

Don't give up entirely though. While we may be out of ideas, it is possible that the coming patch somehow fixes it. Might even be likely, since FC2 (which is newer) works on your machine and said patch is to make DCS:BS compatible with FC2 as well as introduce several modifications made for FC2 (new sound engine and so on).

 

Sadly I don't have a release date - the patch is undergoing testing to ensure that things work as they should. But hopefully it should be relatively soon.

[JG11Preusse]

Don't give up entirely though. While we may be out of ideas, it is possible that the coming patch somehow fixes it. Might even be likely, since FC2 (which is newer) works on your machine and said patch is to make DCS:BS compatible with FC2 as well as introduce several modifications made for FC2 (new sound engine and so on).

 

Sadly I don't have a release date - the patch is undergoing testing to ensure that things work as they should. But hopefully it should be relatively soon.

 

lets cross fingers ..... i really hope it will help me with my problem.

 

if i look to lock on and then compare it to fc2, i will really looking forward to get bs working :)

 

what i dont metioned before .... my notebook has a realtek soundchip and i bought an external xifi soundblaster later on.

i deaktivated the realtek one and also tried to deactivate the xifi fo a test with bs, but this also dont helps.

 

maybe you have some real heli pilots allready for testing the flight model ..... if not, i was one in the german army aviation >>>> anti tank bo-105 pah.

 

the "army" promised me that i can fly the tiger later, but 1994 i left the army and the tiger still was not implemented :)

 

normaly the army aviation should got the tiger before i joined ...... ooks like good things needs a while :) ....... if someone would have asked me, i ould have suggested the ah-64 offer form the us-army. more cheap, more better and able to get "now" :)

 

that happened ifpolitics have to decide something ....... trash solutions are alltime the result:)