Mk-82 Ripple Freeze in DCS:World A-10C

[Angbor]

It's not exactly a crash, but it's sorta like a crash in that you have to force it to close.

 

I decided today that I really needed to figure out how to bomb things with ripple fire and decided that the regular old Mk-82 would be perfect to test it out with. Well it turns out that in ripple fire mode (regardless the quantity set to drop) it will freeze your game and force you to ctrl-alt-del out.

 

The ripple mode I used was single not pairs... forgot to test that one out. I also didn't try pairs, I ran out of free time.

 

I went and tested a few things out to see what would make it freeze.

 

I loaded up a custom mission where I had 6 Mk-82s and the rest of my hard points loaded with Mk-82 Airs except for a TGP. My first freeze happened when set to a 3 ripple drop with CCRP and it froze without hearing the first bomb drop.

 

I managed another two runs, with the same settings, and it froze just after hearing the first bomb drop, didn't get to hear the other two.

 

Then for testing sake I went and set it to regular single drop and it worked for all my bombs. Then set it to ripple with a drop count of 1 and it froze. I Also tested with CCRP and CCIP and it didn't change anything.

 

I then tested ripple drop with the Mk-82 Air and they worked perfectly any way I dropped them... except I couldn't hit things but I'm sure that's pilot error...

 

 

When I get some more time, hopefully later today, I'm going to goof off with a bunch of other ordinance and I'll see what I can find. Thanks ED for the game, it's amazing.

[Nate--IRL--]

What would be really helpful would be creating a track just before the point it freezes - it would be set up so I can then take control and Just pull the trigger to cause the crash.

 

Once I see it too, we can fix it.

 

Nate

[Angbor]

Alright, I got a track file put together. I get everything setup and then tip the wings to turn off autopilot, it only runs for maybe 10 more seconds past that but that shouldn't be a problem. I couldn't get it to save with a freezing attached had to fly for a little bit then quit, otherwise the track it would show would be the campaign mission I did yesterday lol.

 

Also I ran it to make sure it still caused my game to freeze and it seems it'll let you drop a single bomb, trying to pickle again caused me to freeze up though.

 

Also thanks for such a quick response, the Mk-82 happens to be my crutch because I epic fail with the Air all the time. :doh:

Mk-82bug.trk

[Nate--IRL--]

Thanks I'll take a look - it is not possible to get a crash in a track, as you've found. The trick is to end the track just before it is likely to happen - so some body else can reproduce it.

 

EDIT:- Ok had a look - no crash on releasing the bomb - I also note no ripple quantity was set.

 

Nate

[Angbor]

For fear that it was just a problem on my end I sent that track file to a friend to see if he'd have the same problem. When he loaded it up and dropped a bomb it worked and I thought, aww crap. So I asked him to drop a couple more and his game also froze, but it was on his second drop.

 

I'm wondering if our install of the game might be messed up, we did DL World and the A-10 module on the same day. I'm not going to to have time to reinstall until Monday. I wonder if anyone else is having this issue.

[71st_Mastiff]

For fear that it was just a problem on my end I sent that track file to a friend to see if he'd have the same problem. When he loaded it up and dropped a bomb it worked and I thought, aww crap. So I asked him to drop a couple more and his game also froze, but it was on his second drop.

 

I'm wondering if our install of the game might be messed up, we did DL World and the A-10 module on the same day. I'm not going to to have time to reinstall until Monday. I wonder if anyone else is having this issue.

 

yes try some graphic setting, I was having the same issues and its something with GPU settings..