Thursday, August 05, 2010

An Older Build for Regression Testing

I'm never thrilled about posting bug-swatting info on this blog; the blog is (among other things) a temporal snapshot of what's going on in X-Plane, as well as an archive; it's my hope that we'll get this problem sorted out soon, at which point this blog post will do nothing but confuse. But I digress.

There have been a number of reports from users of the sim hanging on startup with this configuration:
  • A 64-bit Windows (usually Vista or 7).
  • A modern ATI card running Catalyst 10-6 or 10-7 drivers.
  • X-Plane 9.62rc2.
  • Usually a core i7 type system.
However, I haven't been able to reproduce this, and neither has ATI.

I don't know what the problem is, but a number of variables have changed in this equation that need to be isolated: new sim, new video drivers, newer operating systems.

So if you have this configuration and can't run the sim, despite removing all third party add-ons, please download this time demo. If you can run the 945 time demo but cannot run 962, please let me know by email, and we'll isolate a defect in the sim. I have heard from some users that they can run 940, but no confirmation that 945 runs.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ben, are you really announcing 9.62rc2? My updater reports 9.61 as current beta...
I'm running xp 9.60rc2 on Win7x64, ATI 2010-07, Core2Duo. I'm willing to do some testing. Until now I didn't find any single problem :)
Regards
Steffen

Benjamin Supnik said...

Hi Steffen,

Oops - you are correct, 962 is still in beta! Unfortunately if you are not seeing crashes or hangs, there isn't much you can test. :-(