I got the game installed, went in to the arena and when I try to click to select a plane, the game freezes. I checked my display settings (nVidia) and there is no option I can see to disable transition effects for menus and tooltips Also, when I went in to the game one of the times I just clicked "Fly" as the plane selected was available (the Zero). But the game was very jerky. Anyone help?
If the transition is problem, game will not freeze, but kick u out, like if u used alt f4 for example. If u use Xp, do : right click on desktop to call for display properties, then click onto Appearance, then Effects, then "use the following transition effect for menus and tooltipis." That option should be Off. If u use vista , try to read about vista patch .. If game is jerky, that could be also problem with CPU, mb its fan needs to be cleaned....or could be antivirus working in the background, or updating...or mb its some virus....
Sorry, I have Vista. I used the patch and it seemed to install okay. I'll try patching again to see if it makes any difference. I assume it's the iEntertainment/Warbirds directory I patch?
Okay I tried patching again, and it said that Warbirds had already been patched. It then brings up another dialog box saying "wbd3d.exe as already been patched". Then another dialog box comes up saying "Error patching, the file User33.dll already exists" or something to that effect.
I downloaded the file exec linked and unpacked it. It has given me a User33.dll file and 6 Warbirds icons all with different names. Any idea what i'm supposed to do with the files?
Well, patching it again has made a bit of difference - it doesn't freeze on the plane selection BUT....the game is still very stuttery. Any ideas how to cure this? I've been able to play on AH with no problems, so I doubt it's a performance issue.
I'd say that you should try the effects disabling that demian linked to... its' a bit down in the linked thread, exec made a screendump to show which box to tick.
You might have something running in the background that is taking too much of your processor overhead.
This is translation from Kum's post in general forum (google translation) Copy and rename in WB: warbirds (patched for vistaseven32), and wbd3d (patched for nvidia and vistaseven32). User33.dll copied to system32. When you run the launcher wrote: Warbirds Windows - Application error The instruction at 0x77ca66ab referenced memory at 0x03daffff. The memory could not be read. Vista business SP2, Toshiba tecraA7, Nvidia Quadro NVS300M run just birds - fly.
I don't think so, I can run more intensive programs without any problems. I think it's just some setting that needs tweaked. Not sure what tho
I find that disabling swap helps stop the fuckin jitters I get in WIndows Vista and 7 both. IF you have enough ram, if not, don't fuck with that. Also, say good bye to crash reports if your machine crashes and too, faster resume, because there is some stuff MS does in it's swap area to 'help' on resumes after powersaving. Or some crap like that. Anyway, I disabled swap in 7 and I have 8 gB ram and my OTHER flight sims stopped stuttering. MS isn't honest about the handing over of one type of memory [VRAM] to another type of memory [RAM] to another, [SWAP]. They use some fuckin PEI or something like that and it fucks with my CPU IO shit thing. [PEI? MEI? IME? Extended memory hack, anyway, you know the one? So MS can claim it is accessing MORE memory access than it acually does???? Yeah, that one. It takes a bunch of CPU cycles and it [I believe] causes fuckin stuttering and freezes.
Btw WB espesialy online is much more voulnerable to background processor activity, than it may be expected from its usual little appetite. Really much more, donno why. And it appeares as little jerks.
It might be the Dx10. Or processor overheating. http://www.vistax64.com/vista-games/163770-dx10-dx9-dx10-possible.html http://www.vistax64.com/vista-games/164190-dx10-issue.html http://www.vistax64.com/gaming/67375-can-you-run-dx9-dx10.html more.. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091204232258AAcYzR8 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/103002-25-will-directx11-make-games-better http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/268767-15-card