It is based on the same code. But G2 haven't shared the work they did for EE2 (i.e. porting it to dx9), so we can't use it and we can't mod EE2.

I guess G2 could try to port over all the mods from EECH to EE2, since they have the source for both. But we can't do it. And I don't think it's likely that they will.

Hi SouP.

I have started a skirmish, no problems at all. I do not think it's video related.

My laptop is a Lenovo thinkpad T61, 1Gram, WinXP.

I can confirm this works a peach with Radeon 4870 crossfire set up.

Awesome!!!! This is the first time I have been able to see arneh's Hind masterpiece as well.

Major thanks to Bodhammer for this much much appreciated fix and to arneh for making this the best modern flight sim around.


Thank you, thank you.

Thanks for the explanation arneh.
If I were from G2 I would definitly try to get in contact with you guys in order to implement that awesome work you've done. Guess that there are lots publishers/developers with "extreme" of lack of vision (guess that's why we lack very much in terms of quality in PC games nowaday).


Anyway, getting back on the subject:
Did run some small tests (I have an ATI 4850) running skirmish games in Georgia and Lebanon and everything is working great so far! Excelent work guys!! Today I'm very happy man since now I can play EECH will all those awesome improvements (including new awesome looking Hind).

Works for me as well with a 3850. Still trying to download the 1.11 allmods and it's taking forever! Anyone have a faster download site other than SimHQ, checksix-fr.com or eechcentral.com?

I don't know what you did but I'm not getting the white flashes anymore - so far, on an Nvidia 260 GTX!

I still get some random triangles, but those are far more tolerable than the flashes. I'll fly some more and let you know. Thank you!

I can confirm the new Test exe works grand on an 8800GTS SLI setup with Nvidia drivers 180.48 - even during campaigns

I've been pulling my hair out since December to try the new Hind and 1.11 patch which Arneh put so much work into - now I've finally seeing just how beautiful EECH has become!

With the following in my eech.ini config file, I do not see any white flashes, and the sky looks normal:
nrt=1
notnl=1

Thanks to Arneh (especially!) and Bodhammer for all the tremendous work.

Very nice work arneh! I was pleasantly surprised with the gameplay. Bodhammer thanks for your work as well. I knew there was a good reason why I kept my eech disc for all these years.


arneh reference to the cbar command in the ini file. Does that also draw a farther distance for trees and what not? I've changed the value and it doesn't seem to make a big difference in draw distance.

Thanks,

Sam

I flew many missions tonight (first time in a while) and had zero white flashes! I think we all owe you our gratitude. Thank you so much!

The triangles are still there, but I don't really care about that, the white flashes are what really messed with everything. I actually enjoyed EECH once again. I've been flying Black Shark in the meantime and I hate to say it, but, I miss the Apache and Commanche in this sim. The Black Shark is so dated and backwards you really begin to appreciate the more modern tech.

Yes i can confirm as well no white flashes (no triangles i still use an old 7800GT)..
Flew for nearly 50 mins and all was fine!



Superb effort! i salute you!

Maybey a little more testing then we might be able to have an updated .exe...perhaps 1.12?

Regards.Sleek.

Great work, guys! Thanks a lot! I can see stuff, I can see!

Now I have to fix my trackir in EEAH/CH (can hardly look down, no problems in Il2-FB or FS9) and wonder, why my engine-startup doesn't work. Can only start the SPU, but nothing else ???

Remember to turn off the rotor brake before you start the engines.

I used the new test exec and indeed there were no white flashes, but I got the CTD... total black screen crash...

I am running a nvidia 6600GT, so it's not a 'new' card at all, but still had the whiteflash and the CTD issues.... bummer... the crash is worse than the flash, lol.

As for free flight with hostile enemies, it makes no difference, I tried that out.

Thanks!

No freaking way!!!

Did my eyes deceive me, or will this really allow the game to run with a GMA965 chipset?!?!!?

Can't wait to try it out when I get a chance! I've missed EECH for almost a year now. Gunship! was OK, but it was no EECH!

Just as a datapoint - are you using older drivers or the latest? The fact that you are crashing totally suprises me given the slight change that I made in the code. Both functions are used in the codebase.

Just to confirm - you did not crash with 1.11 but you could not see textures and with 1.11.1 you crash?

Have you done a clean install from the CD and then applied AllMods as per this?
http://www.eechcentral.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation_guide


Thanks,
Bod

It's working on my 4870 too. Finally I can appreciate arneh's amazing work on the Hind and the ground detail textures - thanks to Bodhammer.

Thanks a lot guys!

You are welcome - I'm glad I could give something back to the project. I was just being selfish as I wanted to run it too!

Also, I would not have even tried to fix this without your hint so you deserve some credit as well!

Bod

I wonder if Kimchoc1 has been around here lately? As someone else?

While GB may lurk through, from time to time (?), I seriously doubt he would ever re-register. He's always remained adamant in his position and his "disagreement" with certain moderators......Unless you know something I don't???

I doubt he's even played EECH (or any other sim) much, for a couple years now.
He's made some updates to his pit but his passion lately seems to be video photography. He's been doing it semi-professionally and really enjoying the work.

I'm sure he'll be glad to know he's still thought of, though.