30 second pause every 24 hours is this a bug?

[unmerged(95579)]

I’m playing Armageddon v1.2 as Germany, everything’s going well, there was a brief hiccup when over 2000 empty Italian ship counters (a unit counter but without commander or units attached) were destroyed by the Americans in Palermo and I had 2000+ pop up windows to close but I reloaded and turned off the pop ups for destroyed naval units and the headache was averted.

I’ve now gotten to 1947; I control all of Europe including England, Scotland and Wales, I’m about to turn my attention to Russia (presently penned up behind the remaining provinces of Poland who I invaded but have left un-annexed as a buffer) and the game has started pausing every 24 hours for about 30 seconds. I say every 24 hours because I’ve restarted a couple of times and the time of the initial pause can vary but the reoccurring every 24 hours thing is constant. And the pause seems to be slowly growing in duration. Needless to say the game is now unplayable and my question is whether this is a bug or just ‘housekeeping’ and whether it can be corrected or avoided like the empty ship counter pop up issue?

Your assistance is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Red Jacket]

Well, there is a couple of issues here.

1. Ghost fleet bug. It is as you describe with the Italian navy. Supposedly this was fixed by the ArmA 1.2 patch, but I believe that there is still a rare circumstance where this still occurs even with the 1.2 patch. I have not experienced the ghost fleets in 1.2 though.

2. Late game slowdown. It is as you describe with the daily lag at 0:00 hrs. Generally this is attributed to the calculations the game engine has to do relative to the total number of units (for all countries) still in the game, say after 1947.

So these are both known issues. It could be for your game that the ghost fleet problem is more than just that Italian navy. Could be other countries with it that you don't know about. There is no easy fix for either of these, AFAIK.

Have you played other instances of the game where you did not get that lag (to that extent) late in the game?

 

[unmerged(95579)]

Nuts. No, this is the first time I've played this far.

And things were going so well too.

Thanks for the timely response Red Jacket.

 

[Red Jacket]

Some players edit their savegames, or create their own events to 'clean things up'. You could try posting again asking about "how to edit save game to remove ghost fleets" and "how to speed up the late game lag". If you want to go that route, I suggest you post right in the doomsday forum (not this one), as you're likely to get more responses, faster.

 

[unmerged(95579)]

Cheers.

 

[warriorjoy]

Same Problem

I have the same problems, and it is driving me up the wall.
Is it just when we/you play Germany do you know or is it the same problem for each country??

Also I play using the Anthology Pack, and now I am totally confused on which update etc is which.

 

[sbr]

I have the same problems, and it is driving me up the wall.
Is it just when we/you play Germany do you know or is it the same problem for each country??

It will affect every country when the game gets that late.

Also I play using the Anthology Pack, and now I am totally confused on which update etc is which.

If you have the Anthology set the only patch you need is the 1.2 patch for Armageddon, all other games are fully patched out of the box.

 

[warriorjoy]

One Other Quick Question

Sorry one last quick question.

How do I know when the patch is active?
As you can guess, I dont want to get to 1947 again and have the same problem.

I love computer games, just inept at computers!!!!

 

[sbr]

When the first menu screen comes up the version number and the checksum will be displayed in the top left hand corner. The checksum for an unmodded 1.2 Arma istall is VBLV.

 

[warriorjoy]

Still Not getting Anywhere

OK.
Re-Loaded Armageddon
Run Patch 1.2
When I click on the desk top icon i get in but the top right hand corner states
Doomsday Armageddon v.1 GKCW
I guess that means I am still on the old version.
ANY IDEAS, ANYONE???

 

[unmerged(17893)]

ANY IDEAS, ANYONE???

Patch was propably installed in the wrong folder.

When you install Armageddon from Anthology, the default path is

C:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Armageddon

But for the patch it is

C:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Doomsday

You need to make sure that the patch gets installed in to the right (Armageddon) folder.