RAF_Leigh Wrote:hi all
ive just had this problem
im in a server and it will let me select any plane i want but if i want to pick the B-29 it wont let me
it will go to the briefing page then i press fly and my game freezes i leave it for a while and no go
if anyone can help thanks
S! RAF_Leigh
Hi Leigh!
I understand u have no mods but the bare 4.08 IL2 sim. Everyone has the problem with frozen controls of AI planes in dogfight servers but the cure for it is simple.
Without mods, the B29 allows you fly with ext view only, because it is an 'AI' plane which means that it is an unfinished plane that has not been given a cocpit by the original IL2 sim makers. When selecting a B29 or any other AI plane as the
first plane in a dogfight server, their controls are frozen.
There is an obligatory trick one has to do when flying any AI plane without 'aftermarket' mods:
Select first any standard plane and hit 'fly'. Only
after that take an AI plane. Now the controls of the AI plane will start work.
Total freeze?
This was the fix to the most common trouble of frozen AI plane controls. If you already know this cure and your IL2 still freezes totally with certain planes, you may have some deeper hardware or game setting problem.
This may be a harder case to solve. For example, my PC usually froze when flying a Ju88. After a lot of experimenting with settings I found that switching from OpenGL to DirectX solved the Ju88 freeze.
These may be very hardware dependent problems, however, and a cure in one computer may not work in another.
