campaign multiplayer map

[barney_1st 0]

Hello,

My technical problem is a very common problem on internet, so I am amazed not to find any information about it on the forum...

This problem occurs from what I've experienced only on the multiplayers maps "Campaigns" (Campaign Everon, Campaign Malden, Campaign Sarugao...). On these maps, players use to get their game to crash very frequently, and for some of them (like the lucky me) the Windows even reboot automatically while in game.

The trick about this bug is that it is not predictable; some games you will crash at start some games you will crash after half an hour, some games you just won’t crash. But after playing the many different versions of these maps, I can tell it has nothing to see with host (you can crash with an host after 10 s of game one day and no crash the day after), and probably little to see with hardware, since I have changed during the last 2 years totally my pc, configuration, game host site, internet provider, and to tell everything, I’ve even moved from Europe to Canada. The problem has always existed on these maps (that has evolved A LOT since the first time I saw a version), and the maps have been totally re-created, re-written in these evolutions by different map makers.

the only thing that remained the same between all these versions is the basic of the map itself ; on the total island, 2 teams start at opposite side in car and got to take all the cities for their team to win ; more cities owned = more money. money is accumulating every 5 seconds and is used by players to buy vehicles and soldiers. It s just a map, but it is nearly a MOD that transform Flashpoint into a real time 3D strategy game, like Battlezone for example.

so anyway, in this kind of maps, units keep spawning at many different points of Everon for example, and there's a lot of different units handled by CPU...

This bug is very annoying; everybody crash on the game at any time, and it is EXTREMLY rare to ever finish this map since host or all a team can crash before 1h of game. As I told before, it can crash anytime, but I can add according to my personal experience that I often crash after buying a chopper like a MI24, and starting it's engine, or even in flight... this issue is so "known" by the map makers that the last released of these maps propose the option to authorize only 1 air unit per team... but even with this option, people crash game.

Do anyone here get any information why these maps are so unstable? These games are the heart of Gamespy (and other gaming sites hosting flashpoint): a good share of people still coming to play on flashpoint online after so many years look for people to host Campaigns, but the other share is not hosting, just not to see their game or even computer to crash. It is time to find a solution for this issue that is discouraging players from this wonderful game.

barney_1st