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Malta Spitfire

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Killer Svend

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Spent a week on the island Malta and back again downloaded "Malta Spitfire" . Flying the first mission in the campaign arriving in Malta, after start from the AC pressing X to warp I got an immidiate CTD, my temper forbid me to fly allmost 400 miles without action so therefore the "X".
Do'es enyone has an ideea how to solve the problem ? The single missions operates without problems.
Killer Svend:salute:
 
Killer Svend said:
Spent a week on the island Malta and back again downloaded "Malta Spitfire" . Flying the first mission in the campaign arriving in Malta, after start from the AC pressing X to warp I got an immidiate CTD, my temper forbid me to fly allmost 400 miles without action so therefore the "X".
Do'es enyone has an ideea how to solve the problem ? The single missions operates without problems.
Killer Svend:salute:
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are u using strictly the addons needed or other planes? , mostly times i have ctd because i use not full converted planes .
That is when u have failure SIM1SIM .
 
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Killer Svend,

There are a couple of random chance elements for enemy intercepts in the mission, that's about the only thing I can think of that would prevent you from warping.
 
I'm experiencing a similar situation with Talon's DOA- 75th squadron campaign. In the sixth mission IIRC, after shooting down the required 3 bombers, the player aircraft stops dead in the air ( with zeros buzzing about) until the mission ends. No CTD, per say, but it was disconcerting until I figgered out what was occurring. Might be a similar phenomenon with the Malta Spitfire thingy.
 
Malta spit

I never made it through that campaign. I experienced exactly the same as Killer Sven even from the first mission. I even took the long flight all 400 miles, but the very moment the enemy came in sight, everything stopped working - freezing or CTD, both happened. I had a lengthty discussion with Rami, who helpfull as always suggested about a hundred things, but none ever changed the situation. My guess is, that it has little to do with the campaign as such, but rather someting with the Malta scenery. I even tried to re-install everything from scratch, but never made it through more than the first mission "Arrival at Malta". From the second one (with the enemy involved) all went back to "normal" that is either freezing up or CTD. I can fly around enjoying the nice scenery, but the moment I fly towards the enemy, all stops. And yes, Rami suggested something was wrong with the GERMAN planes, so they were all changed - and all are functioning in other campaigns in their original form.
:pop4:Finn
 
I did not have the problem with the sim freezing. However, I didn´t fly it in Campaign mode, but as single missions. I did get a CTD every now and then, but after restarting the sim and flying the mission again I was able to complete it.
Recently this CTD problem around Malta got worse. In the end I couldn´t even fly around the island in Free Flight without the sim crashing.
I am now working on a complete reinstall of the Med sceneries according to Rami´s guide.
So far, I´m able to fly around Malta in the new install, but I only tried Free Flight yet.

There seems to be some problem with the Malta scenery, causing all those CTDs. I wonder if somebody ever found out exactly what it is and how to solve it?
I was planning to do make some new missions around Malta, but stopped the project when I ran into this problems.
 
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Hey guys,

This campaign is working much better on my new rig, but I went through the missions again and found a couple of small flaws, which I fixed. I will try flying it as a campaign again, and I'm also leaning toward built some GSL port facilities at Licata, in southern Sicily.
 
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Good evening,

Using Google Earth and recon photos from WWII, I managed to build the port of Licata in GSL. It's not massive, but fits the bill of a small port, not too far from the airfield there. I had to combine the GSL gob, but that wasn't exceptionally difficult.
 
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Skylane,

Of course. This morning, I have to finish the mission, adding in the ships and anti-aircraft guns. I'll include it in the Malta Spitfire package, as well as my GSL ports for the Mediterranean.

The only trouble is, I think it may screw up a couple of Tuskegee missions, so I'll have to go in and check.
 
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Good evening,

I uploaded the Malta Spitfire campaign again with an updated GSL port at Licata, on the island of Sicily. To this point, I can find no fault with the campaign file, but please report if there are any problems from here on out.
 
Made a new installation acc.to latest update-pressed fly now to first mision in the campaign-second warp-CTD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:angryfir:

Killer Svend
 
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Killer,

Unless there is a bad .dp file that I am not aware of, there is nothing in the missions that should be causing a CTD error, either in the campaign or single-mission mode. I can't replicate your problem on my rig, so I'm at a loss for suggestions or advice.
 
I finished my new Med install. Made a quick test mission, escorting bombers to Valetta in a Re-2001.
After turning with the intercepting Spitfires for a few minutes: CTD again, like in the old install!

I´m sure there must be something with the scenery, but I can´t find what it may be.
Anyway, I´m out of ideas, so I will stop my Malta project for now.
 
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Skylane,

I'm in the same boat. Malta runs fine on my rig, but I won't labor on a 1940-1942 Malta campaign if no one can use the scenery. :salute:

This one has really got me scratching my head, that's for sure.
 
The CTDs always seem to occur when flying in the vicinity of Valetta...
Rami, what would be an incorrect texture size?
 
I don't have a med install but maybe this will help.

If the CTDs always happen in the same vicinty, it's most likely triggered by the sim trying to draw some object or land/waterclass & finding a conflict it cannot resolve.

I know that it can be pernickity about land/ waterclass matching at the edges of cells - & IIRC this scenery is a hodge podge of several packs & updates.

Look in the relevant scenery file folder(s). Deactivate any bgls identified as "LC", "landclass", "waterclass" or "WC" as part of the title (just move them into a sub-folder so you can retrieve them later).

Go fly, & see if you get a CTD. If you don't, one or more of these landclass or waterclass files is not matching up correctly with the others, & the conflict is causing the CTD.

My suggested fix is to work at a new combined land/ waterclass that will cover the entire area to remove any possible conflicts. This can be done using EZ Landclass by Russel Dirks.

Hope this helps.
 
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