AA 2.5

[gsr]

Mauti, you might want to consider completing the medical training as being a medic and healing people during battle is a quick way to get honor points.  It's sure slow trying to get to that 25 honor where you can modify the weapons loadout.

[l ! l Ross]

Mauti, you might want to consider completing the medical training as being a medic and healing people during battle is a quick way to get honor points.  It's sure slow trying to get to that 25 honor where you can modify the weapons loadout.

You only need to be 15 honor to play as a SF and mod your weapon.

[Civrock]

Sheesh... I just finished all the trainings... everything was pretty easy and then the fuckin' POS active SF level... gawd... took way too long getting to that truck, about half an hour.

[Civrock]

Apparently the first BETA server with 2.5.1 is running already (don't know if Mac or PC, or even both) and there's also a new map, called "SF Border".

And btw, the problems with the authentication server should be resolved "hopefully" by this evening, according to a moderator over at the official AA forum.

[theweakspot]

also a new map, called "SF Border"

here come the mexicans.... 

[Civrock]

Heh, it'd be funny as hell if the Assault team, AKA the Mexicans, would have sombreros instead of black masks. Rather unlikely, though.

[z][t-Magnetic]

I’m sure it will be Germans trying to get into Denmark, pffff.

[Civrock]

Danish Special Forces? What?

[Civrock]

Ryan Gordon released a hotfix for the Mac version of AA 2.5:

http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus

This is a hotfix to America's Army 2.5.0. The only change is that single-processor systems should no longer suffer a serious and sustained a framerate hit when using auto-login on the Personnel Jacket.

The issue was caused by a thread that handles authentication requests that didn't sleep correctly, and appears to only affect the Mac client. There is no 2.5.0a for other platforms, and 2.5.0a is 100% network compatible with all 2.5.0 clients and servers.

Dual processor systems will likely not see any significant performance change with this hotfix. Single processor systems should see their framerate return to approximately where it was in 2.3.0.

Bug reports can be directed to the bug tracker. Discussion can go to The americasarmy.com forums, where there is a section dedicated to discussion of the Mac version of the game. Please do not report bugs in the forums; if they aren't in the bug tracker, they will not be fixed.

Thank you for playing America's Army!

[BFG]

Dual processor systems will likely not see any significant performance change with this hotfix

Oh f*ck... so im still gonna get the ass sucking frame rates

[Civrock]

Nah, I believe that this "bug" was fixed completely but that single-processor users will see more of an improvement than dual-processor users. I think dual-processor users didn't relaly have that much of a performance drop because of this anyways (unless it's a non-g5 dual-processor). Try it anyways, I installed it already on my Dual 2.3 G5 and am going to try it myself now...

[BFG]

It is indeed a "non G5-duel processor" heh... well perhaps with a combo of the patch, and my new bandwidth things might pick up a touch.. i'll give it a try at the weekend!

[th.Sentinel]

Altough it says it won't make much difference on a dual processor, I find it a bit more playable then it used to be. It can be my imagination, but for the first time I had 27-11 on Extraction!!
Normally it starts to lag when I'm firing at someone in close range.
But now even with the rpk it was still playable.

[BFG]

Awsome, getting any where near 20 FPS on Extraction would put a smile on my face! Currently with those maps any CQC means im dead!

[cO.twist]

wow thanks for that link.  im on a single 1.8 g5, and i was getting 5fps on every map until that patch.  now i  can actually play. 

[BTs_GhostSniper]

wow thanks for that link.  im on a single 1.8 g5, and i was getting 5fps on every map until that patch.  now i  can actually play. 

Yeah, you and I have the same computer and graphics card...same was happening to me.  Everything's back to normal now.

[Civrock]

Another new map discovered on a beta 2.5.1 server - Dusk.

[BFG]

Would be nice if they could stop making new maps and actually let people play on the current ones... ie actually build a game that runs half decent on computers.

Another little seperate joy that i was just telling dark about. Seems AA has decided i havn't done any training - my account says i've done it all.. but try and play a map and i get a "required training has not been completed" message ... i've trashed everything and installed again... same fecking problem

Sure hope the AArmy is run tighter with better standards than this pile o crap

[DarK.]

Ferret has the same problem... I dont think he has figured it out either.  Anyone else with a similar problem?[/size]

[Civrock]

The Account Manager Server was down yesterday afternoon till the evening but it should be working fine again.

Additionally, there have been problems with the Authentication Server in the last days and although the Network Status says it's fully mission capable at the moment, it's obviously not. Many people posted about it on the official forums already and I'm sure they're going to update the status and start working on it ASAP. This is not related to the Training problems.

Edit: Heh, the official AA forum is getting flooded with threads and people. Quite overloaded.


Edit 2: Both the Account Manager Server and the Authentication Server are back in MC status.

http://www.americasarmy.com/support/status.php