Strange Setup and Issue During Sandbox Mode

[Michael Slaunwhite]

There is one thing that I have noticed about these graphic problems, and that is it only seems to happen if I play a MP sandbox game. Everything appears to be fine if I play a game in SP Sandbox mode.

Not that I have ever played a Multi-Player Game, but wouldn’t this be related to the Internet-Speed ?

Mikesla – didn’t you mention that you were using a very slow internet connection a while back, have this changed?

davinci

I'm still locked in using a dial-up connection. I wasn't connected to anyone else while trying out the new patch.

I tried out the MP locally to find out which of my mods needed to be fixed, and brought up to date. So I activated my blood mod, and started a MP game. When I noticed that the Cannon were missing I thought that my blood mod might be causing the problem so I went back to start a new mp game, and when I went into the mods section my blood mod wasn't activated which means the patch itself is having problems.

One good thing, all of my edits work with the latest release in SP.

For some reason the patch is having problems hosting locally. I never had a problem with this before with the other patches.

Later!

[ADukes]

Custom OOB, right?

[Michael Slaunwhite]

Custom OOB, right?

Nope. Clean game.

[ADukes]

What's the strength of the guns? Did you alter the MenPerSprite setting?

[Marching Thru Georgia]

Mikesla wrote:

I'm experiencing the same thing as Grim reaper. MP Sandbox, Army vs Army, Gettysburg map.

I'm pretty sure the problem you are experiencing has to do with the total number of troops you have on the battlefield. I have a pretty good rig and the maximum number of troops I can use is 85-90,000 total. For computers with less horsepower, that number could easily drop to 50-60,000. If those numbers are exceeded, I too see effects like no shooting, missing sprites, etc.

To play army vs army, you need to create a custom OOB where the total number of troops involved are the maximum your computer can handle. You just need to use trial and error to find that number.

[Michael Slaunwhite]

Mikesla wrote:

I'm experiencing the same thing as Grim reaper. MP Sandbox, Army vs Army, Gettysburg map.

I'm pretty sure the problem you are experiencing has to do with the total number of troops you have on the battlefield. I have a pretty good rig and the maximum number of troops I can use is 85-90,000 total. For computers with less horsepower, that number could easily drop to 50-60,000. If those numbers are exceeded, I too see effects like no shooting, missing sprites, etc.

To play army vs army, you need to create a custom OOB where the total number of troops involved are the maximum your computer can handle. You just need to use trial and error to find that number.

Hmmm, okay I did try the exact setup for a SP Sandbox game, and it worked perfectly. All graphics were present, and accounted for. It only appears to happen if I start a local game for me, myself, and I, that is when these oddities appear(version 1.1116). Not that it matters anyway because I rarely play local MP unless there is recent battle OOB I like to play made by Garneir's Campaign mod.

Note: I never had problems prior to the new beta patch.

If it is my system specs, than can anyone here loan me about 5 grand please? I'll take it in Canadian....

[Marching Thru Georgia]

Mikesla wrote:

Note: I never had problems prior to the new beta patch.

I never looked at the max number of troops I could host for MP, but it wouldn't surprise me that it would be less since the host uses more resources sending packets. Also, there are new sprites in the game, dead arty and cavalry related. These may also have helped push you over the edge. You might try dialing back on the uniforms and tree cover and see if that fixes the problem. How many troops were you trying to use? Do you see the same problems in corps vs corps sized battles?