4.15 release!

[Sita]

that is good news)

[TitusFlavius]

At first thx for the good work!

Only a small detail. The small mistake is still present.The emergency HUD message on the He-177 is displayed incorrectly ("Forsazh!" instead of ("Erhöhte Notleistung EIN!") in the German localization.
See the screenshot.

[JacksonsGhost]

Thanks again to the team for all the hard work on 4.15! And also to all who have helped with info and suggestions. I am now running with the DSO XP option showing EAX 4 lights!

I'm still just getting into it, but I'm loving the increased number of in-cockpit sounds from bullets and shells hitting the aircraft! I get that a lot!

I would like to report an apparent bug though.

One of the guys at M4T reported getting pink skins when trying to use custom skins on the P-38. I also had trouble getting skins to work on stationary C-47s, so I did some checks. It seems there is a bug, but it doesn't happen on all maps, or for all aircraft. It is very hit and miss, but only in 4.15.

For example, go to the Normandy1 map in 4.15 and try skinning a P-38J or C-47. It works fine. But try it on the Italy online or Kursk maps and it doesn't work. Do the same with an I-16 Type 5, F4F-4, F6F-5 and others, and they work.

I don't know how many maps or aircraft are affected by this. I stopped looking when I got to 3 maps and 2 aircraft.

It also affects stationary aircraft, C-47s and P-38Js at least. They don't go pink, they just won't accept skins on those maps.

It seems that default skin settings for these maps may be overriding the custom skin settings somehow. I wonder if there is a simple fix for this.

For me personally this is very disappointing because it means that many missions built with fairly historically correct skins now have totally incorrect markings in 4.15, if they work at all. For example, my Fw 190 Aces mission now displays pre-war US roundels on the stationary C-47s, while all the US aircraft around them are correctly marked with 1944 US roundels, and it seems there is nothing I can do to fix this except to change them to be RAF C-47s instead of USAAF!

[stugumby]

What was your fix? As for the skins problem I wonder if it has anything to do with the missions calendar date in fmb? Also would Microsoft vs plus effect anything,virtual studio?

[JacksonsGhost]

Originally Posted by stugumby

What was your fix? As for the skins problem I wonder if it has anything to do with the missions calendar date in fmb? Also would Microsoft vs plus effect anything,virtual studio?

My fix to run 4.15 was selecting "Windows Sonic for Headphones" under "Spatial sound" in my Windows 10 speaker options. Once I did that the game ran under any of the sound install options except the first "DSO" option. It even ran with no sound card option selected, but the one that delivered the most EAX lights was DSO XP. I did lose sound on the Creative install somehow after it had been working, but your "SoundUse=1" tip got that working again, so I actually have 4 different working installs of 4.15 now!

For the skin issue, my Fw 190 mission design is dated 2 April 1944, but the map never did give correct default US roundels for that date. Even in 4.14.1 I had to include custom skins for the mission, which worked fine then, but not now for the C-47s in 4.15. That is the problem. And yet the custom skins work fine in 4.15 for P-39s, Spitfires and Beaufighters at the same airfield in that same mission!

But you don't need to download my Fw 190 mission to see the problem. Please just follow my example of trying to fit C-47 or P-38J non-default skins on a clean Italy online or Kursk map in 4.15 and, if it is a universal problem, it should only take you 30 seconds or so to see it. I know the problem is not isolated to my install, so it may well be a universal 4.15 bug.

[_1SMV_Gitano]

Hi JacksonsGhost,

bug confirmed, thanks for reporting

[JacksonsGhost]

Thanks _1SMV_Gitano.