Engine Bug

[zidor]

Engine bug is back for me and more often now.

I've tried to fraps it but the game crashes when im trying to do it.

I start the engine and then i won't respond, shifting gear up and down doesn't work and nor can i turn the engine off.

I hear the engine running low and there is exhausts at the rear of the vehicle.

It has happend 5 times for me now since the patch 31.1 , 4 times with Stug G and 1 time with 251.

3 of them was when i spawned in and tried to start the engine for the first time.

[GOPHUR]

Never seen this. Not a key mapper issue doesn't sound like BUT if it is global I'm not seeing other complaints on the issue.

You just:

• spawn in
  
• start engine
  
• note that gears, throttle and other controls don;t work?
  

Do you have these things keymapped to something special or are you using defaults?

[eko13wf]

This is just a random, long-standing bug that happens with any control set and will happen with any vehicle. For some reason StuG3Gs tend to get it more than anything else. I've had this bug only a handful of times since 2002 playing Allied but I have had it happen randomly.

[zidor]

Never seen this. Not a key mapper issue doesn't sound like BUT if it is global I'm not seeing other complaints on the issue.

You just:

• spawn in

• start engine

• note that gears, throttle and other controls don;t work?

Do you have these things keymapped to something special or are you using defaults?

Sorry for the slow respond.

I have double of the keymaps, using the default and the 2nd keymap for the gear is on the mouse scroll.

I've tried using both but none of them responded.

I've had the engine bug almost once every day at the last days of the campaign and all of them was with the StugG, after that so i have been using 232 instead and luckely so haven't i got any engine bug with tank so far.

Edited July 28, 2010 by zidor

[AHWULF]

Gophur I have gotten this bug randomly in a stugG always. The smoke from the engine kicks in like its starting but it doesn't ever finish starting although the engine is running. Its like the engine starting state is stuck near the end. Doesn't happen often at all and it appears to be random.

[lutorm]

Yeah, it's an old bug. A search in this forum showed one post by cykel 11-07-09 and one by arcangel 8-25-09. I'm pretty sure I've reported it earlier than that, too, but it seems the older posts have been purged.

[jar644]

I've had this happen with the Stug G as well. Drove out to an area outside of town and shut off my engine. When I went to restart it after a few minutes, it was in a low engine start noise and became totally unresponsive to engine controls. Turret traverse was fine. My only option was to despawn, losing the Stug.

EDIT: When this happened, one of my squadies said that it happens a lot with the Stug G and he doesn't use it anymore.

Edited July 28, 2010 by jar644

[timmy41]

i watched this happen to zidor a few weeks ago

asked him to fraps it but when he turned fraps on he CTDed :/

[lutorm]

Here's a link to a video I captured of the stug engine bug in Aug 2007: http://governator.ucsc.edu/filer/stugg-engine-bug.avi.

It's not awesome but you can hear the low-pitched engine sound playing.