Fixed the New Patch/Game - Sticky me?
 

Forget it. Doesnt work. Single players ok but MP is porked. - READ WHOLE POST.


Ok due to the patch I was having lock ups and CTD's every 10 mins... It was unplayable.

Ok here is how I fixed my game. DO NOT START THE GAME UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED!

1. Uninstalled my antivirus.
   
2. Verified the integrety of the game cache via steam, this revertedc the game back to latest offical.
   
3. Deleted cache folder in 1csoftclub - yes the enitire folder!
   
4. Turned Steam Synch cloud off for Clod.
   
5. Disabled steam community for clod.
   
6. Redownloaded the patch from Airwarfare (incase my patch was corrupted) Install it!
   
7. Extract the game with winrar thus: aim the unpack at the steam/common/apps/cliffs of dover folder.... DO NOT unpack it and copy the files in your self. Dont ask me why. You wont get prompted to overwrite if you have done this right.

My game now works flawlessly at 60 fps - Avg, min and max. Ive just loaded a single mission with collisions off and let the plane bounce around for an hour. Came back its still working. CEM was off also, so maybe this is a bug I might encounter later.




Heres the bad news - you will have to remapp all controls...

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Im running an 4.2Ghz ASUS processor with 8Gb DDR 3 ramm, Asus EAH HD 6850, Win7 64 bit, TrackIR, Latest AMD drivers.

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Why do you have to remap all controls?

because they will be gone... :(
They are in the Steam cloud.

Unless you're clever and saved the controls to specific files (i.e. I have a specific control file for flying the Bf 109 and one for the Ju 87), copied those to another folder and then reinalled it. ;)

A?

My cloud and Sync have always been off and I have still kept my controls after a file check and cache clean

There are on your system. Mine were over written. I think they are in the confuser file. Just make a backup.

Controls are stored in confUser.ini IIRC but I save them as a different file for backup. It is also possible to back up the whole Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder before reinstall.

Farber: Can you please provide an md5 or sha1 checksum for the archive you downloaded?

Well I must be the only one that doesn't lose them then..Id only lose them if i uninstalled the game totaly

what he said :)

How do I do that? :confused:

Ermm maybe more bad news... It seems to work best in SP with no difficulties on except clouds. - Still Testing.

Everyone seems to have their own "this fixed it" method for launcher crashes. I hate to say it but at this point it's just superstition and speculation until we know what causes it.

Testing different settings will definitely help the process of finding the cause but until a method or fix is tested by many users and proven to work, don't expect something like this to be a miracle fix.

For example, I don't even have an anti virus on my machine and I still get crashes, so that first step is null. I've verified my local files multiple times with no effect. Deleted my cache folder with no effect. Haven't tried disabling the steam cloud/community thing, but I'd be very shocked if that has anything to do with gameplay as I'm pretty sure that stuff isn't actively doing anything during/just before a launcher crash, but I haven't tried so its obviously worth a shot. And the method you copy the files to the cliffs of Dover folder is kind of straightforward...you either copied the files to the right place and overwrote the applicable ones or you didn't. There's no correct/more correct way to do it.

My guess is the reason CloD is crashing has to do with a memory leak, which I'm not sure we can do anything about, or an issue with aircraft LOD models, as I've noticed, along with many others, that crashes seem to happen while approaching/leaving other aircraft...queuing the game to call in the different level-of-detail (LOD) models as they get closer/farther.

My guess is that during your 3 hour test flight, you didn't encounter any aircraft to transition LODs, nor were you online, which is the only place I get crashes. It could also be affected by your low video settings, which could be a factor.

Whoops double post

Saw your core seemed to look a bit different to what i remembered mine looking.. copy/pasted it into mine,and now i finally got wavy water again :-P

Can't even start explaining how frustrating it have been. Was close to smashing my machine trying to get the water back to normal.

So thanx :)

Lots of tools to do it are available on the net. Microsoft made one called FCIV: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290 A checksum is like a digital fingerprint. To put it simply: If two files are identical, they will have the same checksum. If they are not identical, they will not have the same checksum.

If 1C (or someone with a known-to-be-working copy) supplies a checksum of the patch, then you can check the file that you download to see if it has the same checksum: an easy way to tell if your file is corrupted or not.

All of this "jumping up and down and holding my breath while copying files using my left hand instead of my right" does not make any sense.

The net code is bugged, game crashes when playing online and crashes much less when playing offline.

*shrug*

I flew last night for quite a while with no crashes.

Well i have a hard time believing all this but give it a shot guys and let us know how much it does or does not crash.

My settings are fine, but somehow the game forgets about the chat-window every time I start the game. It always reverts to the standard position, so I always have to drag it to the top left corner and make it a little smaller as I want it.

Any ideas?

Nutsack! 2 crashes online... :(

Still regular CTD in MP - best time is 15 minutes. I think I will have to revert to pre beta untill the devs identify the problems but I too am beginning to think that Lower settings and ac LOD are causing me LE problems but just guessing!

Has anyone noticed MP Launcher.exe crashes on any other servers but the popular ATAG servers?

Thats what |I thought so I went on ACG server where I got the crash anyway...

Apparently here seems improved ...

I got a crash last night on ATAG just as I was rolling onto the Stuka flight and my wingman crashed right after. Up until that point, the patch seemed to be performing as advertised. :/

We're the Stukas in your view when you crashed? I'm seriously beginning to suspect aircraft LOD as the culprit. How long were you playing?

When I get home from work I'm gonna toy around with the LOD variables in the ini...that is if I don't pass out from a wicked case of the Mondays.

My ability to 'spot the dots' isn't the greatest, so they might have been. We certainly could see the flak.

The funny thing about this crash is that we hadn't been online that long when it happened.

The time variation that most have before a crash leads me to stray from a memory leak being the cause, though I haven't monitored RAM usage before a crash yet...curious.

Well, I last around 10 minutes online in a 109 before a launcher crash, and have just lasted 35 minutes in a 110, while escorting five Do17's online.
I last longer in a twin without a crash for some reason. Before the patch, I hardly ever crashed if I cleared my cache every flight.
All we can do at this stage is send in the crash reports and hopefully they will work it out.

Farber, this worked fabulously for me, now have a steady 55 FPS with clouds off (like they should be as they are causing issues). Also have buildings and forrest to as low as they go, with everything else maxed out.

The old M AG I C trick post again...

Make sure you click your heals together 3 times before launching also

You jest, but it worked.

sorak,

Believe it or not, some people don't have problems with this patch (what was in the patch notes as being improved/fixed) I happen to be one of them.

For me most of these options (antivirus, and the foolish steam features) are all off anyways...

so far ive been able to play up to 1 or 2 hours in the single player mode...otherwise i still get crashes sometimes 10 - 30 most of the time, however getting a nice collection of crash dump files, that i plan on sending in tomorrow i get two types of crashes, one where simply pressing escape gets me out of the program and another when a popup stating the program is not longer responding and that is the only way i can close it, pressing escape dosent work...

perhaps soon with our collective effort at this we can finally resolve these issues....with the new graphics program

Well I did some minor testing today with my conf.ini to no avail. I had a crash today with absolutely no aircraft in sight, so that kinda debunks my LOD theory. I was online and AFK for about an hour just staring at the sky/ocean horizon while I ate dinner, came back to play and crashed after about ten minutes.

I could try more testing, maybe without my EVGA precision overlay this time, I dunno, I'm pretty much outta ideas for the cause, save for a massive and quick memory leak that sends your OS scrambling to terminate CoD...but that is hard to find/prove unless you have coding access/monitoring.

Bliss can you post your PC specs? Try and be as detailed as possible: vid card/driver version, VRAM amount, RAM manuf./size, CPU, hyper threading on/off, SSD/using/not using a pagefile, motherboard, OS/32 or 64 bit...and have you ever had crashes in this patch yet?

Everything's is good here, no crashes but I can't be sure of a increase in fps because I can now use crossfire which i am not sure was down to the beta or new gpu drivers... All I know is that I am going to be flying again whoo!!

I've done only these steps and it seems to work.

1) Synchronized CloD via Steam (then disabled synchronization).
2) Reapplied the patch.
3) Removed the entire "C:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder.

I believe the game was not corrupt. So maybe the only thing needed was to remove personal settings. OK I've spent 1 hour with redoing key and stick mappings. But so far no CTDs.
Hoping I'm not too optimistic regarding these results.

this is a misleading post,, please, change it to something else.. if there is a real fix post it, or a new patch, an offical patch, but leaving post that say 'hey come here and do this and all will be fixed' is just plain wrong... people have been yanked around enough,, caused a lot of greif....


IMHO

CTD 15 mins after i posted the message that this method worked. I'm sorry.

Careful there. You just might break his CID ( CloD Is Dead ) routine.

the controls are safed in the 1c softclub folder,if you have safed them to a file.if you load it, then it will overwrite the conf.user file.so if you are clever, safe your controls first before deleting the 1c folder, and put the file somewhere else prior to deleting....

some squad members experienced better performance and less crashes after they have deleted the whole 1c folder.they just installed the patch, ran it a couple of times and then deleted the whole folder.it will be rebuilt with the next launch.

Where did i say i dont believe some people are not having problems? I myself am not having no serious problems with the patch.

What exactly are you even talking about?

Anyone know how to do this and what does it cause doing it?

Steam often automatically checks if your files are synched with the official version. So it might be doing the rollover without your knowledge.

To do it: Right click the game in the steam library list, go to Properties, then the "updates tab".

There are two options here, steam cloud which backs up all your configs and automatic updates which means you can turn off automatic patching (or sometimes it reverts your version of the game). You will want to turn them back on when the patch goes to release version on steam.

Hah everyone is grasping at everything for a fix.

Its a regular witch hunt, and everyone is sellin snake oil cures.

I tried ( after several disappointing manual installs ,)to try a fresh one with your suggestion that I extract directly the patch to the correct steamapps folder.I do not know why this could make a difference but it seems on first glance to given my a few more FPS & smoothness close to ground.I did uncheck grass, but kept shadows as I think they are the best thing about the sim.
Mind I still have other problems that others have and may go back to the standard default install because of faulty interiors & non working customize aircraft screen, but I'll try this for a while ,untill next beat or the real thing comes along...
Do you think I should go thru myConfig file too as suggested?

is there any way to look at the crash log ourselves to see whats causing our problems?