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[Matze81]

Hey, I tried flying on the ATAG server for the first time today and had some problems when trying to select an aircraft.
When I joined the German side, I clicked on a fighter airfield and then I clicked on the aircraft picture on the right to change the default 109 E-3 to a E-4.
But when this little window with the different aircraft pictures comes up, nothing happens, when I click on the E-4 or any other airplane.
Could be my computer, cause it's acting kinda laggy and slow in the multiplayer menus or am I doing something wrong?

[klem]

Originally Posted by Matze81

Hey, I tried flying on the ATAG server for the first time today and had some problems when trying to select an aircraft.
When I joined the German side, I clicked on a fighter airfield and then I clicked on the aircraft picture on the right to change the default 109 E-3 to a E-4.
But when this little window with the different aircraft pictures comes up, nothing happens, when I click on the E-4 or any other airplane.
Could be my computer, cause it's acting kinda laggy and slow in the multiplayer menus or am I doing something wrong?

Hi Matze81,

Did you double-click on the aircraft you want to fly?
Also, please post you system specs and settings so that someone may be able to make suggestions on settings. Presumably you have shut down all other applications, MSN, Windows Live etc that may be running in the background?

[Matze81]

Originally Posted by klem

Hi Matze81,

Did you double-click on the aircraft you want to fly?
Also, please post you system specs and settings so that someone may be able to make suggestions on settings. Presumably you have shut down all other applications, MSN, Windows Live etc that may be running in the background?

I updated my sig with the system specs. Stuff in the backround is shut down. I thought it might be the mouse driver, but pluggin in another regular mouse with windows drivers didn't help.

Yeah, I was double-clicking on 'em. Yesterday I thought restarting Steam did the trick, but it happened again today. Nothing would work, until I restarted the game, went to singleplayer first, changed my airplane there (there clicking on airplanes worked), then went back to multiplayer and suddenly my mouse-clicks would also work in the multiplayer menu again and I could select my 109 E-4. Don't know if it is a permanent workaround or if it was just luck.

I only played offline until now, but I came across this problem already before. For example sometimes (not always) when I'm finished playing and I wanna exit the game, the "do you really want to exit" window comes up and my mouse clicks on "Yes" are not registered anymore. It's not a problem, cause I can just hit return/enter and the game shuts down. Unfortunately hitting the return/enter key doesn't select the desired plane in the multiplayer selection window.

I'll update the post, if the above mentioned seems to be a permanent workaround, just in case someone else has the same issue.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Matze81

I updated my sig with the system specs. Stuff in the backround is shut down. I thought it might be the mouse driver, but pluggin in another regular mouse with windows drivers didn't help.

Yeah, I was double-clicking on 'em. Yesterday I thought restarting Steam did the trick, but it happened again today. Nothing would work, until I restarted the game, went to singleplayer first, changed my airplane there (there clicking on airplanes worked), then went back to multiplayer and suddenly my mouse-clicks would also work in the multiplayer menu again and I could select my 109 E-4. Don't know if it is a permanent workaround or if it was just luck.

I only played offline until now, but I came across this problem already before. For example sometimes (not always) when I'm finished playing and I wanna exit the game, the "do you really want to exit" window comes up and my mouse clicks on "Yes" are not registered anymore. It's not a problem, cause I can just hit return/enter and the game shuts down. Unfortunately hitting the return/enter key doesn't select the desired plane in the multiplayer selection window.

I'll update the post, if the above mentioned seems to be a permanent workaround, just in case someone else has the same issue.

I've never heard of the aircraft picking problem. Have you tried re-validating files on Steam, clearing your cache, then reinstalling the patch?

For your graphics card I'd guess settings starting somewhere between Medium and High but with SSAO and Grass off, both building settings to low, forest to very low or off and experiment with Textures.

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Matze81

I only played offline until now, but I came across this problem already before. For example sometimes (not always) when I'm finished playing and I wanna exit the game, the "do you really want to exit" window comes up and my mouse clicks on "Yes" are not registered anymore. It's not a problem, cause I can just hit return/enter and the game shuts down. Unfortunately hitting the return/enter key doesn't select the desired plane in the multiplayer selection window.

I'll update the post, if the above mentioned seems to be a permanent workaround, just in case someone else has the same issue.

I had same problem when i want to save the controls.
My guess: open the clod folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover), right click on the launcher exe. Open the "compatibility" tab, and tick/untick the "Disable Visual Themes" and the "Disable desktop composition" (2nd and 3rd from bottom) check box.

I read somewhere here, that we should tick these boxes, but i had problem when ticked. Since unticked, the game is perfect for me (this aspect )

[Matze81]

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

I had same problem when i want to save the controls.
My guess: open the clod folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover), right click on the launcher exe. Open the "compatibility" tab, and tick/untick the "Disable Visual Themes" and the "Disable desktop composition" (2nd and 3rd from bottom) check box.

I read somewhere here, that we should tick these boxes, but i had problem when ticked. Since unticked, the game is perfect for me (this aspect )

In my case setting the tick marks actually seems to help. Cool!
Thanks for the advice!

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Matze81

In my case setting the tick marks actually seems to help. Cool!
Thanks for the advice!

The problem with desktop composition has been there since day one. I think Luthier (when he actually used to post here) told us all to disable it quite a while back. I think Vista users also have more problems with this compared to Win7 etc. Hey, but the new game is supposed to fix it all

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