Spearhead problems? Look inside

[Hollywood]

I have had a couple of problems in the game, and I have found that removing any of the extra pk3 files from your mohaa/main folder will fix most of your troubles. I had a problem with a missing texture that I thought for sure was a video problem, but it was actually a custom file that was conflicting with the game. So remove all of them and only leave pk3 0-6 in the main folder.

<---thanks to rudedog for that.

The other problem that I have noticed is low framerate. A lot of people have this problem running very decent systems. I have personally tried many fixes that have worked in the past, but nothing works. I am running a ti 4600 and should not be getting framerates in the yellow and red. Lowering the settings has done nothing to fix this, and I'm sure that a patch will most likely not fix this, and even if it did who knows when the patch will be released.

Anyone have a remedy for this situation? I have tried downgrading my drivers but nothing works.

[thejerk]

Ok, Holly... figured out your white box thing... don't use blood mods. I installed a few different mods: fubah total war (all three files), Red's hud (not sure if it actually did anything in SH), Akuma's blood 3.3, sniper scopes (can't remember who's right now)... Anyway, I noticed the same thing you were talking about before... weird, I thought. Then it occured to me that they were always around the dead people, and sometimes just in the spot where I hit them first.... bloooooood!!! hehehe

In regards to the other issue of fps, I don't know... I'm having problems with fps droppage as well and I'm pretty dissapointed. Awesome maps (Thunder, btw, didn't cause any fps issues for me), but always have a problem in CQB. Some maps much worse than others... can only imagine this is a problem in the way they scripted the maps or the use of smoke grenades with 16+ people.

Also thought I'd give you guys an idea on not being able to play SP with some mods (not everyone had this problem). After experimenting with adding mods, etc., it occured to me that there's something new here that just might be our conflict from AA: the heavy weapons (flak to be exact). Some maps that we're all fond of make use of the flak88 or pak88 and I thought since this wasn't originally scripted for MOH that the current script could be conflicting hardcore with flak scripts from older custom maps (Ardennes custom map is ok, though). Perhaps a map that doesn't require you to have ammo for the flak such as would also cause the flak in The Hunt to work? Just a thought...

I'm going to spend some time tomorrow going mod by mod and map by map of all the stuff I had before and I'll post the results here to let you all know what I've come up with. Thing I'm trying to keep in mind is that not everyone had this issue of not being able to play SP with mods, maps and skins.

Anyway, until tomorrow. ;)

[SNYPE]

Hey guys, dont know if this is the same for the full retail version (since mine hasnt arrived yet, grrrrrrrrrr), but I was having a problem with the demo Malta map. It had very low fps (<20) and it would make my Teamspeak stop working. I found an updated driver for my 2nd sound card (the one I use for Teamspeak) and when I enter Malta now, not only does my Teamspeak still work but my fps is 70-90.

[thejerk]

Hey guys, dont know if this is the same for the full retail version (since mine hasnt arrived yet, grrrrrrrrrr), but I was having a problem with the demo Malta map. It had very low fps (<20) and it would make my Teamspeak stop working. I found an updated driver for my 2nd sound card (the one I use for Teamspeak) and when I enter Malta now, not only does my Teamspeak still work but my fps is 70-90.

Just curious, but what's the make and model of your second card? I tried to upgrade my drivers for my SB Live! Value yesterday and it froze before finishing the install. Tried it again after restarting and it said that everything was in place, yet I couldn't use hardware excelleration anymore.

[thejerk]

Think I have it all ironed out...

What I posted on aa.com
And, I've got some more info for ya. I just did some testing and it turns out that it's a skin that crashes SP back to the main screen. Here's a list of the skins I used when this happened (one custom map installed with five UI/Sound mods, all proven to work ok):

506Easy
82nd PIR.pk3
8th (11 of them)
8thInf (8 of them)
alliedofficers.pk3
Col.pk3
combat_manon.pk3
FI-relic-canucks.pk3
hitler-vip.pk3
japanese_soldiers.pk3
Kompanie3-WaffenSS-MP.pk3
mtv_axis.pk3
navy_SEALS.pk3
panzergrenadier_sniperFIXED.pk3
Random Task's Elite Division v1.0.pk3
Random Task's German Models ver1.1.pk3
Random_Task_Brandenburg_Commando.pk3
Saddam_Hussain.pk3
SEAL_Desert_camo.pk3
SEAL_urban_camoflauge.pk3
SEAL_woodland_camo.pk3
Sniper_Heer_MP_SP-Falpo.pk3
snow soldier.pk3
Titleist-Player-Model-2.pk3
XENO_fallschirmjager.pk3
[MoD] BHD-Ranger.pk3
2ndAirbRangClanSkin.pk3
17thAlliedClanSkin.pk3
101st PIR-MP.pk3
wolf-mans_rangers.pk3
Allied_101's_airborne.pk3

I tested these skins one at a time and they all worked:

2ndAirbRangClanSkin.pk3
17thAlliedClanSkin.pk3
101st PIR-MP.pk3
wolf-mans_rangers.pk3
Allied_101's_airborne.pk3

I'll continue to do this and report which ones work and which don't. I'm kinda tired of it right now, so this info will come later tonight. ;)

Will keep you all updated on this...

[SgtD]

Good list to start with. Appreciate your effort!

[Iceratt]

The missing texture for SP can be fixed by using the Heinrichs blood mod. We in =RP= were haveing the same problem. Just put this in your main file after deleting old blood mod. We have blood again in SP. wOOt. Happy killing.
http://webpages.charter.net/gambit/User-Heinrich's-Blood-Mod-Final.pk3

[thejerk]

What if we're not using that blood mod? LOL

Sorry I've been slacking on the list... Wanted to play the darn game a bit seeing as I bought it. Anyway, I'll get back on this list ASAP. Perhaps we could have a combined effort of the good, the bad and the ugly of skins in SH? LOL all coholic

[SNYPE]

ChickenBoo--my video card wasnt SB, it was an Aureal Vortex2.

[thejerk]

Actually, I just noticed that you said Malta. I take it you don't have the retail of SH yet? The fps issues that we were discussing were related to the retail... I personally didn't have any real issues with the demo except that it was a little more power hungry than I expected. But the retail seems to knock off FPS like it's an insect.

[Hollywood]

Yes it seems everyone is getting very low fps. Does anyone know why this is? When I play MP I sometimes get fps maxed out, and then the next map I get around 15-20fps. Is this just bad design by EA? What the hell is going on?

[SNYPE]

Youre correct, I dont have the full version yet :x (still waiting by the mailbox :( )
I was just suggesting that sometimes things we dont consider as being potential trouble, can be. For example: mouse driver, Direct X, vid driver, router firmware, Defragging, etc,etc. It was just a suprise to me that the 2nd sound card driver (not even being used by the game!!)would affect the demo game that much.
Good luck, hopefully you guys will have all the bugs worked out before I get my copy! ;)