Serious graphic issue - everything disappearing

[Robin_Hood]

Hi all,

 

I just installed DCS:A-10C yesterday (hadn't played it since beta 3), and I am experiencing a very serious graphic issue.

 

When I launch a mission, depending on my settings (see below), everything but the sea disappears (even menus). The mouse cursors stays, though.

 

Here is my setting:

 

Computer

Proc: Intel Dual Core E8400

GFX: ATI Radeon HD4850

OS: Windows XP 32 Bits

RAM: 2 Gb

 

Catalyst settings

Version: 10.2

AA: Use application settings

AA Filtering: Use application settings

Catalyst AI: Disable

Mipmap: High Quality

Adaptive AA: Quality

 

DCS settings

Textures: see below

Scenes: Medium

Civ Traffic: Off

Water: Low

Visib Range: Medium

Heat Blur: On

Shadows: High

Resolution: see below

Res Displas: 256

MSAA: 4x

HDR: Off

 

Shadow Tree: Off

VSync: Off

Full screen: Off

TSSAA: On

 

Bushes: 0 m

Tree visibility: 4000 m

 

Textures & resolution

When Textures are set on Medium, the problem appears immediately when the mission is loaded. Same thing with textures on Low but resolution set any higher than 1400x900 (my desktop resolution being 1600x1080).

On the other hand, when the res is at 1400x900 and Textures are on Low, the game starts seemingly well. I have been able to start-up, take-off and land once (at Tbilissi). But in a flight I just tried (free flight from ramp mission, at Sukhumi I think), I was able to start-up and take-off allright, but soon parts of the cockpit and the airplane (speedbrakes) started disappearing, the sky became of an eerie blue, and it worsened with the turning on of the Mav display. In the end, all there was left was the water blow, and a black sky above (screens attached).

 

I have to say, I never had any problem of this kind with the first three beta versions, on the same computer.

 

Here are three screenshots, showing two stages of the bug.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14096482/Partage%20divers/Graphic%20bug%201.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14096482/Partage%20divers/Graphic%20bug%202.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14096482/Partage%20divers/Graphic%20bug%203.jpg

 

I am also posting me.log and DCS.log.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14096482/Partage%20divers/me.log

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14096482/Partage%20divers/dcs.log

Edited April 18, 2012 by Robin_Hood

[PeterP]

Computer

Proc: Intel Dual Core E8400

GFX: ATI Radeon HD4850

OS: Windows XP 32 Bits

RAM: 2 Gb

Your system simply ran out of ram.

Things you can try before upgrading:

 

Apply this tweak to give DCS a little more memory-address space .

 

If you have Crashes, Glitches in a 32bit OS (Applies even if you only have 2gb.)

>>>Mustang's XP 32 Bit /3GB Switch Here

I have to say, I never had any problem of this kind with the first three beta versions, on the same computer.

Things changed a little since the beta.

>>>http://www.a-10c.com/index.php?end_pos=1322&scr=shop&lang=en

Minimum system requirements: Operating system: Windows XP, Vista or 7; Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz; Memory: 3 GB; Free hard disk space: 7 GB; Video: 512 MB RAM card, DirectX 9 - compatible; Sound: DirectX 9.0c - compatible; requires internet activation.

Please set also TSSAA to OFF - to free up some V-Ram and if this problem still exists turn MSAA to 2x . Do this to prevent to smaller your ram even more - as when the V-Ram is full the data that waits for free space will be parked in your system-ram. And that makes the problem even worse.

 

 

Even if the graphic corruption will be gone in on of the quick-start missions now,

it is very likely that it will come back in processing/memory intensive campaigns.

I highly recommend to you to upgrade to Win7-64bit and at least 4GB Ram.

Edited April 18, 2012 by PeterP

[Robin_Hood]

Thank you for the comeback. I will try these and see if I can get my hands on a little more RAM