Eder
Mr. Standoff
We're trying to fix a couple of bugs in our simulator missions that could be very annoying when you're on your way to getting a high score... and we need your guys to help us with that.
The first problem is that sometimes, on certain machines, the game crashes at the start of a new wave in the gauntlets. We haven't figured out a good way to reproduce that bug, so we don't know how to fix it. What we need from you guys is that anyone who experiences one of these crashes gives us a bit of information on under which conditions the crash has happened:
- Your system specs (Processor, memory, video card, version of Windows)
- Your Standoff launcher settings (Resolution, color bits, fighter/capship/asteroid viewing distances)
- When did it crash (as in, at the start of which waves?)
That'll allow us to see if there's anything in common between the different systems which experience this crash, which is the first step in trying to fix it.
I'll let Pierre inform you guys about the other bug a few hours from now when he logs on, because it's mission-related and he can probably explain it better than me.
Basically, some scores in the database have been corrupted and we'd like to ask you avid sim players out there to test a small patch for a few days. This has only affected 4 scores out of a whole lot that have been submitted so far... so we need a lot of people testing it over a period of a few days before we can be sure that no other corrupted entries will be generated by the game.
We don't normally do this, but these two bugs are hard to be tracked down unless we have a relatively large number of test runs (so just internal testing won't be enough for this).
The first problem is that sometimes, on certain machines, the game crashes at the start of a new wave in the gauntlets. We haven't figured out a good way to reproduce that bug, so we don't know how to fix it. What we need from you guys is that anyone who experiences one of these crashes gives us a bit of information on under which conditions the crash has happened:
- Your system specs (Processor, memory, video card, version of Windows)
- Your Standoff launcher settings (Resolution, color bits, fighter/capship/asteroid viewing distances)
- When did it crash (as in, at the start of which waves?)
That'll allow us to see if there's anything in common between the different systems which experience this crash, which is the first step in trying to fix it.
I'll let Pierre inform you guys about the other bug a few hours from now when he logs on, because it's mission-related and he can probably explain it better than me.
Basically, some scores in the database have been corrupted and we'd like to ask you avid sim players out there to test a small patch for a few days. This has only affected 4 scores out of a whole lot that have been submitted so far... so we need a lot of people testing it over a period of a few days before we can be sure that no other corrupted entries will be generated by the game.
We don't normally do this, but these two bugs are hard to be tracked down unless we have a relatively large number of test runs (so just internal testing won't be enough for this).