Wacht am Rhein 4.50.5b Beta

[Andrew Williams]

We have uploaded Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein 4.50.5b Beta to the Members Club for those Members who would like to help us with the testing of the new features and bug fixes for this patch release. We want to make sure that the bug fixes listed have worked as they should and that no new bugs have surfaced because of the changes.

Again this is an early public beta so those who want to help out with the testing may. You can access this public beta as a Private Download as long as you have registered your Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein serial number in our Members Club (Click on the MEMBERS link in the top nav bar).

Changes
• Features and Enhancements
o Display frame rate capped to reduce video card load on certain systems.

• Fixes
o Fixed: Multi-player screen dialogs for modem and serial port settings were not displaying properly.
o Fixed: Viewing reinforcements on the Strategic Screen would not show reinforcement battle group if an active battle group was on the arrival map during the actual current turn.
o Fixed: German AI was not allocating heavy artillery support properly.


Link is fixed and the DL is now available from the members area


http://www.matrixgames.com/community/members.asp

you need to use the 'My games' link http://www.matrixgames.com/community/mygames.asp after the login

[RevenGE]

Congratulations! The patch seemed to repair the problem I was having. I was able to play an entire game without any problems. Thanks!

[tiohn]

Sadly, it does not fix my problem, and tech support has not gotten back to me in a week and a half. What is the proper channel for complaining about that?

[Tejszd]

Fixed my 8600 GTS, it no longer goes up 20 degrees when playing....

[Andrew Williams]

From your video the plane animations look normal......

So I don't know what to suggest.

As far as tech support goes keep badgering them re a response.

[Iron Stringbean]

[&:] I can't get it to download.

I go to my games, click private downloads, and the zip file dowload link looks like this:

ZIP Download CloseCombatWachtamRhein-UpdateCompDR-v4505bDR.zip (
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch

/community/privateDL.asp, line 67

???

When i click the link, it give me a page not found error, and if I try to save target as, it says the target server was reset.

DOH!

[SlickWilhelm]

ORIGINAL: Iron Stringbean

[&:] I can't get it to download.

I go to my games, click private downloads, and the zip file dowload link looks like this:

ZIP Download CloseCombatWachtamRhein-UpdateCompDR-v4505bDR.zip (
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch

/community/privateDL.asp, line 67



???

When i click the link, it give me a page not found error, and if I try to save target as, it says the target server was reset.

DOH!

Just a guess, but try clearing out your web browser cache and try again.

[Iron Stringbean]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

ORIGINAL: Iron Stringbean

[&:] I can't get it to download.

I go to my games, click private downloads, and the zip file dowload link looks like this:

ZIP Download CloseCombatWachtamRhein-UpdateCompDR-v4505bDR.zip (
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch

/community/privateDL.asp, line 67



???

When i click the link, it give me a page not found error, and if I try to save target as, it says the target server was reset.

DOH!

Just a guess, but try clearing out your web browser cache and try again.

Bah I don't get it. I tried using Mozilla Firefox instead of explorer, and I even tried running in safe mode. I googled the error code and apparenlty there's some kind of conflict on line 67 of the script running on the page. Since everyone else is dl'ing fine, it must be on my end so I'll keep looking in to it.

*edit* Well I tried using my girlfriends laptop and I get the same thing. So its either our network, or angry gnomes preventing me. Either that or there's something wrong with my registration of my serial number for the members club. hmmm

[sfinlay]

Iron  String bean
Try downloading now. I had the same
(
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch

/community/privateDL.asp, line 67  message but when I now click the link it seems to download O.K. !

[Iron Stringbean]

ORIGINAL: flying scotsman

Iron  String bean
Try downloading now. I had the same
(
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch

/community/privateDL.asp, line 67  message but when I now click the link it seems to download O.K. !

the message is still there but yeah, it works now! Sweet, thanks!

[squadleader_id]

My 8600GT's temp is pretty close to idle temp when playing WAR with the beta patch...30 deg above idle temp without the patch.
Good job, guys! Looking forward to the official patch.

[Jonathan Pollard]

Has anybody been able to play multiplayer using the beta patch? I played with no problems using the first official patch but when I came across someone who had the beta patch on bhq I installed it but was unable to get past the deployment phase. My opponent said that he got an "AI initializing" message or something like that before he was able to deploy.

[Andrew Williams]

Been playing h2h ever since the beta patch.

What problem are you having?

[Jonathan Pollard]

When playing as the Americans, I froze in the force selection screen where you can remove and replace troops. Playing as Germans, I got through the force selection screen fine, but the game froze as soon as I reached the deployment map. There was a message saying that the opponent was still loading and I was not able to move any of my units and unable to continue to the start of combat even if I wanted all troops to remain where they initially appeared. My opponent said that he got a message saying that the AI was initializing, and that initializing never stopped.

[Jonathan Pollard]

I'm on BHQ now, if you want to try a test game i'll wait there for about 10 minutes or so. I'm "911TruthOrg" on BHQ.

[Andrew Williams]

here was a message saying that the opponent was still loading and I was not able to move any of my units and unable to continue to the start of combat even if I wanted all troops to remain where they initially appeared. My opponent said that he got a message saying that the AI was initializing, and that initializing never stopped.

You cannot move your units while your opponent is loading.

Initializing AI can take quite a while as there is a lot of Data to load and transfer via your internet connection... how long did your opponent wait before he decided initialization never stopped?


PS. the first couple of H2H games I thought it had frozen too.

[Jonathan Pollard]

How long should we wait for the AI to initialize? I think we waited only a minute or two.

Prior to installing the beta patch I needed to wait only a few seconds.

EDIT: I played against another opponent and after waiting about half a minute the game played fine. Maybe my previous opponent had an extremely slow machine.

[Southernland]

Nope I was your opponent, my comp is reasonably well spec'ed and on broadband... but it would seem the problem is at my end

[Nomada_Firefox]

How long should we wait for the AI to initialize? I think we waited only a minute or two.

It happens when you play with people too far from your home, first time that I played a multiplayer WAR game was with one man from the antipodes [;)] and game loaded on one or two minutes, when I play with people from Europe, on special from Spain (my country) game loads on few seconds. It is not problem from WAR, it is a problem from all net if really there is a problem.

[jspec]

Hi -

I think I'm having a problem similar to some that have been reported regarding the game freezing up after a very short amount of time. Basically the graphics will "freeze" in place on the screen (with a little distortion sometimes) and the only solution is a hard reboot of the computer.

Came here and saw the beta patch, figured I'd try that before posting. The problem is still there, although I was able to play for a much longer time before the game froze up - maybe about 7 minutes or so (as opposed to the minute, maybe even less, before the patch).

I have a core2duo e8400, 2gigs or ram, a geforce 8800gt with the 178.24 drivers, playing other games (flight sims mostly) with no problems.

Thanks, and please let me know if you need more info (or if I should send an email somewhere).