WitPTracker AE Release 1.11 Available!

[Chris21wen]

ORIGINAL: floydg

ORIGINAL: Chris21wen

What do the colour coded ID numbers mean on the LCU production tab?

For LCUs active and at bases, if the supply is more than 20,000, show in green, otherwise if greater than 10,000 show in orange, otherwise if greater than zero show in red and if zero, show in black.
For LCUs not at a base, it's always black.

At least that's how it looks in the code...

Thanks

[icitrom]

Hello. I just (01-Dec-2020) purchased War in the Pacific - Admiral's Edition. I downloaded the main installer (v10079DR) as well as the update (v1126a). What is this WitP Tracker file? Thanks.

[rsallen64]

When I first started running Tracker, it loaded in about 11 seconds or so. 265 turns in, it's taking about 157 seconds. I've performed database maintenance by purging alerts older than 25, and at one point maybe 100 turns or so ago I had to start again and reload Tracker with all new date, losing my old database. Is there something I can do to speed this up? And, since I'm running Windows 10, can we now use 64 bit Java, or do we still use 32 bit Java for Tracker? Thanks!

[Chris21wen]

I don't know the technical reason but it's the way Java works.

If you monitor the size of the trackerdb.data file you will see it gets bigger each time you load a new turn. Java has to read all that every time you start it. At the start its about 20K, (with map), it'll be smaller without it. I've got 82 turns loading and the size is now 260K.

You either put up with it or start all over again.

[Chris21wen]

Tracker's run from a .bat file. I've inserted the line fro normal use, but it does nothing with remark statement in the line:

rem del *db.*
......

Whenever I need to restart I point SaveFile=[the earliest save I have] located in the WitPtracker.properties file.
Delete just rem from the .bat file.
Run the .bat file.
Re-insert rem to the .bat. (If you don't rem it, it will just keep deleting the dbs)
Multi-turn read all other saves from within tracker.
Reset SaveFile={to normal turn save].

Note I always have the last five turns saved. You can deler all the db files in the tracker folder by hand. I find it simpler to use this method.

[floydg]

This is the result of a short-sighted design decision at the beginning of the coding. The more turns loaded, the longer it takes to start up.
I have some ideas to speed it up considerably, but haven't found the time to re-work it.

As others have said, the workaround is to delete the DB every so often and restart with less history. That's against my OCD nature, so I keep it all in there and suffer the startup delay.

Maybe when I retire I'll have the time to re-work it all...

[Nomad]

When you do retire and rewrite it, could you add an alert for a ship gaining experience?

I usually start getting frustrated when load times go over 6 minutes. About 12 - 15 months or so.

[floydg]

ORIGINAL: Nomad

When you do retire and rewrite it, could you add an alert for a ship gaining experience?

I usually start getting frustrated when load times go over 6 minutes. About 12 - 15 months or so.

I'll see what I can do there. The data is all there, so it shouldn't be hard to add the alerts.

[saintsup]

Hello,

I'm new to WITP AE.
So far I've overcome all the hurdles to make everything work on a new PC (SeaBee, dual Java install, etc ...).

Last problem I have is to make the tracker work with scenario 100 (working fine with stock scenario Coral Sea).
There is an error message when loading a turn :'WARNING: Unknown row in operations file <C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\SAVE\aoperationsreport.txt>: [3 Vincent I replacements arrive at Auckland]'

Any Idea ?

[Nomad]

Do not worry about it. There are some new operation file entries that tracker doesn't know about. It does not affect trackers operation.

[Chef Chaudard]

I've got a problem with WITP tracker 1.10.
In a previous game (in 2019), I could launch WITP Tracker without any problem.
I started a new PBEM, and when I try to launch WITP Tracker I've got the following error message :

pwsdll7.dll : Can't load IA 32-bits .dll on a AMD 64-bits platform

Then the exception stack....

does it mean that my java executable only accepts 64-bits libraries ?
Can anyone help me ? Because a PBEM without WITP tracker is quite hard to manage...
Thanx in advance !

[Nomad]

You need to download and install the 32-bit Java.

[Chef Chaudard]

I installed a 32bits java executable (in a directory different from the default one), I modified the WITPtracker script to executed specifically this 32bits executable, and it works fine !
Thank you for the answer !

[clamel]

I thought I read this program worked with Java 8 somewhere. Finding the proper version of Java 6 on Oracles site looks to be difficult. Lots of DL and then Oracle demand a login.

[floydg]

It should work with JRE 7 or 8 now.
I have JRE8 build 261 on my computer right now.

[Chris21wen]

Don't use it much but asked track what my ASW coverage having remembered your map.

I've found anomalies with the map. Not sure if they have always been there or are a consequnce of various patches to game/tracker.

When displaying search arcs:-
ASW patrols only show up if naval patrols are also set (random of defined) for the group.
Defined naval arcs show even if the group search level is zero. If you rest to random then set to zero they do not show.

In the pic there are three FP group in Guam, Saipan and Pagan.
Guam has both naval and ASW set to random. Both displayed
Saipan has just ASW set to random with naval search arc clear and set to zero. None displayed
Pagan has ASW arcs set to random with naval arc set to define arc (10-20) but level set to zero. Only naval displayed.

ASW left/Naval right

[BaitBoy]

ORIGINAL: Chef Chaudard

I installed a 32bits java executable (in a directory different from the default one), I modified the WITPtracker script to executed specifically this 32bits executable, and it works fine !
Thank you for the answer !

I am having the same problem. How did you modify WITPtracker to do that?

[Nomad]

Put your 32 bit java in some place other than the default one and then point tracker directly to it, like this:

"c:\nomads 32 bit java\installation\bin\java.exe" -Xms768m -Xmx768m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
pause

[goldenlion]

What might I be doing wrong?
Tried to follow the directions on the witptracker website.

When I run the either of the .bat files, it thinks for awhile, and then a pop-up window comes up and says:
______________________________________________

Unable to install Java
There are errors in the following switches:
"-Xms384m";"-Xmx512m";"-jar""WitPtracker.jar";"nomap";.

Check that the commands are valid and try again.

__________________________________________

I tried it with just copying the java.exe file into the tracker folder and with the formal java install, both give me the same error.

[Nomad]

It says that you do not have Java installed. You have to install the 32 bit version and use it.