PRE Release 9

[Mickey]

Can't get past this screen




Also game takes visibly longer to start than v8 and icon on the taskbar appears delayed. Also seems to not be full screen

[Tjoeker]

Hmm, that's weird. I don't have any of these problems.

v9 takes as long as v8 to start up for me.
It does start up on full screen.
And I do get beyond that screen. (how many opponents are you playing with?)


Is there anyone else having the same problems?

[Steegio]

Hmm, that's weird. I don't have any of these problems.

v9 takes as long as v8 to start up for me.
It does start up on full screen.
And I do get beyond that screen. (how many opponents are you playing with?)


Is there anyone else having the same problems?

I don't have the full screen problem. However, it does take at least 6-7 minutes to load the game. Also the time progresses not smoothly. It took more than 2 minutes to go to day 3, and then it stuck. 

I like the game very much, but it is really unplayable. Which I don't like to say, since it costs so much time and effort to have created this game.

[Mickey]

how many opponents are you playing with?

Was trying to start the game with various settings - so tried from 0 to 10. But still not being able to get past this screen 

Win 7 Pro anyway and notebook, so not the highest resolution - but still it does not explain the thing why it does not start full screen for me. And also had forgotten where was the log file, maybe there i would find some answers 

[Tjoeker]

Hmm, I really don't have any of these problems..
However, I must say on the game creation it can indeed take a while if I let the game do its thing.
But if I click somewhere while loading it crashes stating the program doesn't respond and then immediately proceeds into the game.  

Fair enough, we should look at performance anyway.


Edit: I tested it with all airports and 5 opponents.
I took me aprox. 3 minutes to create the game.
Not to bad, but it's worth noting that I have a kind of high end laptop.

However, I now confirm that if your playing with all the airports, time stops ticking.
I'd suggest to only play with the major airports until we have some improvements on the performance.

[Steegio]

Honestly I don't care so much about the starting time when creating the game. But my game (15 opponents, major airports only) went to day 3, and then was stuck for more than 11 minutes. After that I shut the game down. Probably you can look into that

[pjank42]

I found one of the performance issue which is related to playing with some of the major airlines (like Delta), so I will try to fix it

[Mickey]

I found one of the performance issue which is related to playing with some of the major airlines (like Delta), so I will try to fix it

And any idea what can cause the game not starting in the window mode?
v8 was working normally.

[pjank42]

Regarding the windowed mode we haven't changed anything in that area, so I would need to investigate it a little further

[Tjoeker]

If I start the game and then click something else before it actually started up, (or clicking the exe three times instead of twice)
it indeed starts in windowed mode. But that's a Windows thingy, not something related to TAP.

So, are you sure it isn't Windows related?