tnewman72

Hi All, First off, i love this addon/mod/whatever you want to refer to it as...BUT.... i d/l'd the super patch and hot fix and although i had some crashes before, now ive got them ALOT. I use MS SW FF2 but that isnt a problem in other games..only this. After about 20 minutes or so, missions (quick flight) stop and i notice that the PC is trying to find the CD. It then goes back to the mission setup page. After that point, it happens almost everytime i enter a quickflight (i dont do missions), after about 30 seconds. Restarting the game doesnt fix it. Rebooting seems to. The joystick doesnt "freeze" like it used to for CFS3 vanilla. The other issue is that sometimes the gameplay is superfast...i.e. i go in there and it runs about 3 times quicker than usual...almost like its on fast forward. I checked to make sure it wasnt me accidentally hitting the time accelerate key..and it wasnt. The thing is that ive noticed this several times now. I restart the mission and its back to normal. i have a dual core AMD X2 6000+ CPU, twin NV 9800GT 1GB cards in SLI and 4gb RAM, running vista 64 bit SP2 with latest patches. can anyone perhaps assist if they can? Would love to play this for more than 20 minutes... Tim

nope..like i said ive been simming for years now...my PS is brand new 1200W antech unit..thats a real 1200W, not RMS.

fwiw it appears that my issues was the ms ff joystick. heat was fine- see other thread.

i think that the MS SW FF is the problem. i played last night with the thrustmaster and it didnt hang even once...maybe coincidence, but i didnt change anything else..fingers crossed.

uncleal..yep, i reckon thats a good idea..i have the Saitek and a thrustmaster i can try instead..

ok will do. btw to get 80fps i turned off the shading of ground objects and set the scenery detail to minimum, as well as turned off clouds and weather. the GPU doesnt go above 53C in game, and yes it is higher than GPU1 which sits at about 40C. i have no mods or anything at all... before i do a reinstall i think ill try a new nvidia driver for good measure... and maybe reinstall DX while im at it. thanks so far P.

no joy testing all the mentioned options. still ceases to play...i thought that it was ok for a bit there as i was playing under different resolutions and 88C AA...but eventually it crapped out on me. all the temps are good...

ok ive measured my CPU and GPU temps. CPU is 29C. GPU one is 39C and GPU 2 is 53C. they are all well within reasonable running temps...very cool in fact. im going to update my g card drivers next...and try the reset cfs3 config. ps i removed my DVD ROM and the issue still occurred.

Hi P, thanks for the reply. The reason i dont think it's heat is that when the crash occurs, without fail it, for some reason, fires up my DVD drive. If it were heat then this correlation wouldnt be occurring- at least not every time. I am getting 80-85 fps in most scenarios, and am working well within the range of my graphics card and the PC, as i like a smooth game, so i have texture shading off, scenery detail to minimum, no clouds and so on..to maximise the image quality of the aircraft and smoothness of gameplay when there's a gaggle of aircraft in the air. it plays flawlessly in fact..not counting this annoying issue. i havent installed anything recently either..just the superpatch. it didnt have any issues prior to this patch in fact. what i may do is disconnect the DVD ROM as its an external type and see how that goes. ill check out the FAQ also. PS the VCard settings are all pretty low also..like 4xAA and 16xAF and pretty much everything else is minimal. I do have vsynch off also. ill reset cfsconfig etc and run some tests...i am writing this as a result of another crash to mission screen. thats another reason why i dont think its heat, as usually that would CTD or halt my PC altogether..which it doesnt. anywhoo, maybe i will eat humble pie and find out that it is heat....but that'd be a tough lesson for me...still, you never know. thanks again, tim

august here is winter...

its not heat. i'm certain of that. never had a problem before with OFF (other than the SW crashes) nor with any other game. been a flight simmer for 25 years now. thats why i posted here as i noticed that others were posting the same issue. any other ideas?

not a CPU heat issue..mine does the same..

is there a way to make the AI harder to beat in this sim? something like the ones from IL2 perhaps? im finding that im landing with 3 and 4 kills per sortie...almost regardless of the plane flown...well, kinda...hey, was the EIII THAT bad?!..i.e. it can barely climb.

if running vista 64 bit, run cmd.exe from the c:/windows/sysWOW64 folder, then register the .dll file as per Pol's instructions. running it directly from the start menu doesnt work.

how do i edit my posts?- im going to buy this...

thanks for the replies. OFF2 is an excellent piece of work, but, as its over CFS3 it still has stability issues on my system. I was gobsmacked at it when i finally got around to trying it. I've been simming for well over a decade now and I was very impressed. But, the stability and the AI, plus the price of the BH&H- which is effectively its price, plus the CFS3 DVD means that I am holding out to get the IL2 and RoF WW1 efforts first. Or at least wait until the community feeds back on them. No disresepct intended.