ati hd3850 card hangs in bad weather rain and snow conditions.

[madyogi]

Is the KA50's graphic engine not displaying bad weather conditions properly on the ATI video cards? On my system, any time when the rain/snow is falling down in the enabled missions, few minutes or sometimes even less after joining the game the video completely hangs. If I stop adding any other input it processes one or few more frames, then the screen goes completely black and I can't even go back to the desktop to kill the process. It forces me to press the magic RESET button and restart the system. :(

 

The mentioned '*.crash' file in temp dir is not creating since the game appears rather to hang not completely crash (I can still hear both engines working over the speakers).

 

It happens for both off-line (missions/currier.miz) and multi-player missions, played over the Internet too.

 

Does anyone of you had similar problems with this game? I was trying to find a similar topic but without success...

 

I'm also suffering a Shkval long range buildings transparency issue but got used to it. Also found few more posts about that problem and I guess there's still no good solution for this. Ground units are displayed fine.

 

My system is:

quite old: yes, ; )

processor: 1x Intel Pentium IV 3 GHz with HT enabled.

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-L Rev.2.

memory: 4x 1GB Kingston 1GB DDR 400 (PC3200) CL2 each one.

vga: POWERCOLOR ATI HD3850 @ AGPx8 slot.

 

Full Catalyst driver version released as: 10.10. It happened for all previous releases too...

 

VGA card set up:

Anti-aliasing model: box, depends from application settings.

Adaptive anti-aliasing: disabled.

Anizotropic filtering: use application settings (default: x2).

Mipmap texturing detail: High Speed / >>Speed<< / Quality / High Quality

Above lines are English translations of my home language, so they may not be 100% accurate.

 

OS: Windows XP with SP 3 + all latest updates.

Game: DCS Ka50 BS, English release 1.0 patched to 1.0.2.

 

Game SYSTEM settings:

Textures & scenes: both set to medium,

Civilian traffic: yes,

Water: normal,

Visibility range: high,

Heat blur: on,

Shadows: active planar,

Resolution: 1024x768,

Aspect: 4:3

Monitors: 1 screen,

Resolution of cockpit displays: 1024

[x] Full screen, [x] Radio speech, [x] Subtitles.

 

CONTROLS panel not changed at all, for flying I use Saitek X52.

GAMEPLAY:

difficulties: [x] external views enabled, [x] tool tips, all others set to OFF,

F10 views: [x] all,

cockpit language: English; units: metric; icons style: Russia; Birds: 100%,

 

[x] Mirrors on,

[x] Central position trimmer mode,

[x] Use this options for all missions.

 

Yes, I was trying to play with all the settings but without any effect. :(

If one could drop an eye on it and share some suggestions, I would be very, very thankful.

 

With regards

 

P.S.

Please forgive if I posted this thread in bad place or hijacked the problem to somebody else.

 

P.S.2

Despite the bugs, this SIM is a real fantastic piece of work :thumbup: Keep on rocking...:pilotfly:

[madyogi]

SOLVED

The AC/DC power supply was an issue. Changed it with a new one and all works perfect