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Ok, report on testing on game feezing when Gamilon Battleship is destroyed.

First of all, the comments on my previous post reflected the problems I was having the first time I created the Gamilon Battleship. Back then there was an error on the firing arcs or slots, something, I cant remember now what it was. The point is that I had it corrected back then and then never had a problem since. It was such a long time ago...like 2 months ago, like 2 weeks before I released the game here the first time.
On the second uptate, none of that was afected, just improved the firing arcs on most of the Gamilon ships that were off. Still no changes in anyting that may cause an error.

Now to the report:
StarBlazers Mod 1.1

My system: Athalon XP 2.17 GHz, 1.00 GB of Ram. Video card: Radeon 9800 pro 128Mb Ram.

I recreated the Minerva mission, first I destroyed 2 Gam Destroyers and then waited for the battleship to show up. Around a range of 500 I saved the game. (Every time I missed to hit the Gam BS with the WMC, I reloaded the game) I fired the WMC 9 times, I hit the Gam BS 6 times, not a single problem. I fired the WMG at a range of 160 to 180, and at a closer range of 50 to 90, not a problem either. There were also on the screen 2 destroyers, 2 cruisers, and 4 of my fighters flying around also on the screen. All went well.

I decided to try it on my old computer:

Pentium III XP 700 MHz, 320 Mb of Ram. Video Card: nVidia Riva TNT 2 Pro, 32Mb Ram
(Boy was that a jerky ride...not as smooth as my newer pc)

Same as before except that I just evaded the two destroyers and waited for the Gam BS. I fired the WMG 9 times, I missed 6 times (provably because I had far less experience this time), I hit 3 times, destroying the Gam BS, at diferent ranges, It was slow and jerky as hell, but it did not freeze!

So I tried in two very diferent rigs, and found no problems. That was a combined test of 9 hits without freezing. What can I say now, make sure you have the latest video drivers, directx (9.0c), Media player(10). Maybe the problem is diferent from pc to pc since they all have diferent configurations. Also In my test I had the game loaded fresh in Minerva.

If you are bored enough, and have the time, just do the same test I did and let me know.