01.09.2009, 01:27
Remember the old rule, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"?
Well, I had luckily installed Canons new Channel map and was happily working on a campaign for it. Then I remembered someone recommending you the so called S3TC fix, changing the TexCompress=2. And I thought "why not give that one a chance as well?". So i did.
And... all hell broke lose. Not only did it freeze up IL-2 so completely, that I had to do a forced reboot of the machine - it didn't even react to ctrl+alt+del. Something happened that has affected my whole rig, with strange graphics effects breaking out even on the desktop. Despite numerous reboots.
After the leaving the PC switched off I did several attempts to use new config.ini, copying them from this site.
But the problems persists = after a while there are strange stuttering on the desktop (without even starting IL-2) together with equally strange jagged "lightnings" across the desktop, the icons have lost their small boxed arrows, etc.
WTF? :hanged:
How in Gods name can a simple change in config.ini make a computer pretty near inoperable? Is the fact that the problems always take a couple of minutes to appear a sign that there is something wrong with the hardware???
Also: take this as warning! Don't do as I did... Well, at least not before doing something as simple as backup-ing your old config.ini
Well, I had luckily installed Canons new Channel map and was happily working on a campaign for it. Then I remembered someone recommending you the so called S3TC fix, changing the TexCompress=2. And I thought "why not give that one a chance as well?". So i did.
And... all hell broke lose. Not only did it freeze up IL-2 so completely, that I had to do a forced reboot of the machine - it didn't even react to ctrl+alt+del. Something happened that has affected my whole rig, with strange graphics effects breaking out even on the desktop. Despite numerous reboots.
After the leaving the PC switched off I did several attempts to use new config.ini, copying them from this site.
But the problems persists = after a while there are strange stuttering on the desktop (without even starting IL-2) together with equally strange jagged "lightnings" across the desktop, the icons have lost their small boxed arrows, etc.
WTF? :hanged:
How in Gods name can a simple change in config.ini make a computer pretty near inoperable? Is the fact that the problems always take a couple of minutes to appear a sign that there is something wrong with the hardware???
Also: take this as warning! Don't do as I did... Well, at least not before doing something as simple as backup-ing your old config.ini