Pat Wilson Campaign Generator problem

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Hi All

 

I downloaded PWCG and after working out from the tutorial how to set the generator up I selected three campaigns, German/Russian/Italian and all worked fine, in fact they are excellent. 

 

But since the recent upgrades only the Russian campaign is flyable, when i select either the German or Italian they both go through the process until the final screen [Loading please wait] and that's all ?

 

 

After a very long time, i select task manager which tells me that IL-2 Sturmovik is not running ?

 

 

 

I realise that most third party installs can be effected by game upgrades, so is this the case with the above ?

 

 

I would just like to add, that being able to fly or not being able to fly these missions, that Pat Wilson should take a bow !!!

 

 

Cheers    

[pilotpierre]

Taffy, the latest v1.0 of Unified PWCG can take several minutes to load for some missions on my rig (see sig). Ditto sometimes when I end a mission it can take a long time to do so.

 

Try again and depending on your rig it may take 2 to 5 minutes to get underway. Not sure if selecting task manager while it is trying to load a mission would kill the program though??????

Edited June 30, 2016 by pilotpierre

[DukeMcFishy]

I'm not sure if I understand it correctly, but it's quite normal with games or applications that when it takes some time to load and when during the load you alt-tab Windows thinks the program is not responding (aka it thinks it has crashed).

Just do nothing and give it a minute to load up and the "IL-2 is not responding" pop-up goes away and loads up your mission.

 

I also recently installed PWCG and I also made a German campaign and also for me it took a minute or 2-3 to load the mission up. I guess it is normal.

Edited June 30, 2016 by DukeMcFishy

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Thanks both, I shall give it another try and report back as to the outcome.

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

My fault,Although they seem to take longer the second time to load up to fly, they do eventually!     I shall have to be a little more patient. 

 

 

 

Cheers.

Edited June 30, 2016 by taffy2jeffmorgan

[PatrickAWlson]

Depending on your settings and the profile of the mission a PWCG mission can generate thousands of entities, including hundreds of AI entities (mostly AA).  My missions usually load up in under a minute but I also upgraded by computer last year.  Before that I was running on a 6 year old rig and it would not be unusual for a mission to take several minutes to load.

 

Finding the perfect balance is pretty much impossible.  Everybody wants things to happen and nobody wants to fly into empty space, but all of that stuff takes time to load and potentially CPU cycles for AI entities.  I have always said that I can populate the entire map and generate missions with ground and air action galore.  Doubt it would even load, never mind actually run .  On the bright side, computers are only getting better.  For RoF I have already loosened quite a few restrictions because more is possible today than in 2009,

[SvAF/F19_Tomten]

I believe I have this problem, when I go to mission and select the generated one no briefing appears and when I press launch it just sits there, only changing the cursor to the loading variant. I've had it sit like this for 20 minutes and still nothing.. I have a pretty decent PC, so I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to take all this time to load.