ARMA 2: OA beta build 74094

[Mr. Charles 22]

   [74061]  New: -skipintro command line option to disable loading menu cutscenes. 
  [74014]  Optimized: File cache memory handling is now faster. 
  [73974]  Changed: foreach variable _index renamed to _forEachIndex 

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

[-=Grunt=- 10]

[74014] Optimized: File cache memory handling is now faster.

Sounds yummy. Thank you BIS.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

[74061] New: -skipintro command line option to disable loading menu cutscenes.

Lol, damn. That was fast :p

[73974] Changed: foreach variable _index renamed to _forEachIndex

Thank you.

[Dwarden 1125]

also

b74086 fixes the crash on AI arty gunner ordered 'fire at position'

[pauliesss 2]

Thanks again BIS! :m:

[vasmkd 12]

cheers BIS, this one sounds like a handy little patch:)

[SaOk 112]

Thanks. :)

But I noticed the custom-voices are broken now. All (custom) voices played with "say" or "playsound" and probably with other commands, cut in few seconds after played very disjointed. Only the official teamradio seems to work normal.

Edit: It seems like all voicefiles under CfgSounds are broken (or say/playsound-commans are broken). CfgRadio and CfgMusic works good.

Edited October 12, 2010 by SaOk

[NeoHazard 10]

no luck on the warfare module. eh :(

[CarlGustaffa 4]

@saok: Confirmed. For me it appears that the sound is starting to play over and over and over again without stopping. I have to tab between applications (windowed mode) in order to make it stop. Never heard that before, although I'm having my first "out of memory" error in UltraEdit (prior to launching Arma2). This is on updated client and dedi server, with sound addons (but the problematic files are mission cfgSound files).

[AnimalMother92 10]

:eek:

-skipintro is legit! So much faster, thanks BIS!

[O Andarilho 10]

thank bis

:yay:

[NeMeSiS 11]

:eek:

-skipintro is legit! So much faster, thanks BIS!

Yeah thats really neat.

[[frl]myke 14]

Had followed all beta so far and all worked fine except this one now. It's the first time i had a BSOD during playing MP. Was goin back to 1.54.73643 then and this worked flawless.

Sadly the rpt didn't tracked the BSOD. If there is something i could deliver that could possibly helpful, please send me a PM.

[Dwarden 1125]

C:\Windows\MiniDump ...

what about .dmp from moment of the crash ?

[suma 8]

But I noticed the custom-voices are broken now. All (custom) voices played with "say" or "playsound" and probably with other commands, cut in few seconds after played very disjointed. Only the official teamradio seems to work normal.

Edit: It seems like all voicefiles under CfgSounds are broken (or say/playsound-commans are broken). CfgRadio and CfgMusic works good.

Thanks for noticing. Fixed in 74097

[seelix 10]

[74014] Optimized: File cache memory handling is now faster.

Sounds great.Thanks for this.

THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS

So Dead3yez has to read this over and over again.

Consider this payback,for a payback you gave me,you personally had no reasons for,mr. lamewar!

THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS

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[squeeze 22]

_forEachIndex doesn't work for me, just started using the beta patches so could anyone confirm, _index worked well in the last patch.

[Evil_Echo 11]

also

b74086 fixes the crash on AI arty gunner ordered 'fire at position'

If this is what I think it is, HUGE thanks from me and others.

[jamesf1 0]

[73974] Changed: foreach variable _index renamed to _forEachIndex

@Dwarden: Thanks for renaming it, but was there any particular reason for not adopting something shorter, but still 'rarely used' such as "_xi" as discussed in the last thread? (More for interest, rather than anything else... _forEachIndex is quite long for a loop variable name...) :)

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Because i is imaginary, and we can't have imaginary x's, can we? :D Seriously though, I don't think it matters much. Rarely do I need the index in a forEach struct, and when I do it won't cause any issues.

[kylania 568]

The speed and amount of direct feedback and features by the devs to issues that have been coming up in beta is just amazing. BIS, you guys rock! :)

[jamesf1 0]

Because i is imaginary, and we can't have imaginary x's, can we? :D Seriously though, I don't think it matters much. Rarely do I need the index in a forEach struct, and when I do it won't cause any issues.

Haha. I was merely wondering whether there was a particular argument for "_forEachIndex" - as you say, it's hardly of any great consequence in the grand scheme of things :)

[maruk 80]

Any short variable name still has high probablity of potential conflicts.

With

_forEachIndex

we believe the risk of possible problems is minimized and this variable can be useful addition for scripters.

@Dwarden: Thanks for renaming it, but was there any particular reason for not adopting something shorter, but still 'rarely used' such as "_xi" as discussed in the last thread? (More for interest, rather than anything else... _forEachIndex is quite long for a loop variable name...) :)

[jamesf1 0]

Any short variable name still has high probablity of potential conflicts. With _forEachIndex we believe the risk of possible problems is minimized and this variable can be useful addition for scripters.

Fair enough - many thanks for adding the feature :)

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Thanks for noticing. Fixed in 74097

Hoping to get hands on this one quickly. Had to revert to earlier due to the sound issues.