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[RRAMIREZ]

LordNothing, on 09 September 2020 - 09:53 PM, said:

if you are getting crashes try running the game in full window. fullscreen can be crashy.

I confirm that it can help.
I had some crashes in full screen (1 every 20 game round about), I haven't had one on full window since I switched.

[chevy42083]

I always assumed full screen would be best... played that way for YEARS. Usually only crashed when Alt+tab'ing to switch in and out to use a browser. Full window has been MUCH MUCH smoother in all aspects.

[VonBruinwald]

chevy42083, on 10 September 2020 - 09:43 AM, said:

I always assumed full screen would be best... played that way for YEARS. Usually only crashed when Alt+tab'ing to switch in and out to use a browser. Full window has been MUCH MUCH smoother in all aspects.

Full-screen is for people who aren't alt-tabbing.

Full-window is for multi-tasking, but it comes at the cost of a few FPS.

[Nightbird]

kills 3 teammates - "WTF I have 1 team damage, why do I have a time out?!"

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Nightbird, on 10 September 2020 - 01:04 PM, said:

kills 3 teammates - "WTF I have 1 team damage, why do I have a time out?!"

That should be an achievement

[LordNothing]

VonBruinwald, on 10 September 2020 - 10:44 AM, said:

Full-screen is for people who aren't alt-tabbing.

Full-window is for multi-tasking, but it comes at the cost of a few FPS.

with wait times such as this game has, alt tabbing is essential to maintaining one's sanity. fortunately in full window mode you can alt tab to your heart's content without crashes. a couple fps is worth the added reliability. and i get better fps than the monitor can display anyway.

i think the game has issues handling context switches that happen when you alt tab. as gpu resources get allocated to the other windows. when its run in a window it maintains its hold on those resources. at least thats what i get from the exceptions being thrown. i find that 9 times out of 10 a blank exception handler makes these problems go away, granted its bad practice not to properly deal with a thrown exception. but i think in this case a re-init of the renderer subsystem might be in order.

Edited by LordNothing, 10 September 2020 - 02:26 PM.

[LordNothing]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 10 September 2020 - 01:15 PM, said:

That should be an achievement

i think i once killed 4 friendly mechs in one sitting with a bad strike. some squirrel ran in front of me right when i dropped it while in a tight formation. game has way too many choke points to get huddled into and a lot of players who think that spreading out a little is bad.

Edited by LordNothing, 10 September 2020 - 02:34 PM.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

LordNothing, on 10 September 2020 - 02:28 PM, said:

i think i once killed 4 friendly mechs in one sitting with a bad strike. some squirrel ran in front of me right when i dropped it while in a tight formation. game has way too many choke points to get huddled into and a lot of players who think that spreading out a little is bad.

But did you do it with only 1 TD?

[LordNothing]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 10 September 2020 - 08:12 PM, said:

But did you do it with only 1 TD?

nah, that takes a special kind of "skill". we will call it "skill".

[Beorning]

Nightbird, on 10 September 2020 - 01:04 PM, said:

kills 3 teammates - "WTF I have 1 team damage, why do I have a time out?!"

I admit to having been sorely tempted to kill 3 potatoes. The achievement though would be like spore maybe 'lead 3 team mates to their doom'.

Also, after a reset, the ethernet would not work so I had to call my ISP and get them to play remote router, maybe it will all be fine now...

edit: it censored 'as' ? haha

Edited by Beorning, 11 September 2020 - 04:09 AM.

[Biomechtric]

Beorning, on 11 September 2020 - 03:49 AM, said:

I admit to having been sorely tempted to kill 3 potatoes. The achievement though would be **** spore maybe 'lead 3 team mates to their doom'.

Also, after a reset, the ethernet would not work so I had to call my ISP and get them to play remote router, maybe it will all be fine now...

So what have we all learned here??
Best to check ourselves before blaming others maybe?
Every time we hear of something like this it tends to be the the one complaining that has the problem.

This game has never caused any disconnect issues that were not the fault of my system, set up or ISP for me.
Is that your system in small print at the bottom of your posts? If it is, I wonder if it's(no offence intended) lower specs are causing some of your issues? I'm no tech genius but the low clock speeds & video ram may cause some problems.

[Beorning]

Biomechtric, on 11 September 2020 - 04:17 AM, said:

So what have we all learned here??
Best to check ourselves before blaming others maybe?
Every time we hear of something like this it tends to be the the one complaining that has the problem.

This game has never caused any disconnect issues that were not the fault of my system, set up or ISP for me.
Is that your system in small print at the bottom of your posts? If it is, I wonder if it's(no offence intended) lower specs are causing some of your issues? I'm no tech genius but the low clock speeds & video ram may cause some problems.

No that is my old system, one that at the time met the minimum specs but suffered nothing but crashes from THIS game due to half arsed optimization.

I could tell you were not in the beta, these are also not new issues, but I am pretty sure those forums have been sealed in concrete and buried deep. You pretentious pontificating puddle of pubes.

[w0qj]

MANY thanks for everyone's tip, "Full Window" MWO, and not "Full Screen" MWO.

Full Window MWO runs MUCH smoother for me.
As compared to Full Screen MWO which caused at least a few crashes each week.

I tend to Alt+Tab out to browser and do other things, eagerly awaiting for MWO to flash in the Taskbar,
which indicated MWO game progression

[Tarl Cabot]

Issue with Full Screen + alt tab, everything has to be redrawn, both the desktop and the game itself each time. So a bad memory stick where things could became problematic when full, and/or other components when pushed to their limit, irregular voltage, etc.

[gooddragon2]

LordNothing, on 08 September 2020 - 04:53 AM, said:

stop shooting through your team. maybe that will help.

Does your damage score for ranking up get improved by team damage? Just for hypathetical purposes.

Edited by gooddragon2, 13 September 2020 - 04:12 PM.

[LordNothing]

gooddragon2, on 13 September 2020 - 04:11 PM, said:

Does your damage score for ranking up get improved by team damage? Just for hypathetical purposes.

i know that team damage/kills kind of hurts your match score. probably not as much as it should, but it would affect your tiering up.

Edited by LordNothing, 13 September 2020 - 04:45 PM.