Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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Indeed, according to your feedback, it looks like I’ve broken something under Windows XP.
Since I’m leaving for vacation I may publish the fix only in few weeks. Sorry for this delay…
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Finally, I’ve fixed the crash this night
You can now download Tacview 1.2.2 which fix the crash in v1.2.1 when opening/saving a file under Windows XP. Sorry for the inconvenience…
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Vyrtuoz thanks for the quick support, however that didn’t solve the problem for me. Also note that I’m running windows 7, not XP.
In any case these things can wait, have fun in your vacation! -
Hi Vyrtuoz,
thanks for your great Work! We love to use your tacview for flight analyse!
Our squadron also looks forward to the “online debrief” release!Wish you good vacation!
Eagle
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Hi Vyrtuoz,
I can confirm that 1.2.2 has fixed the problem for me in Windows XP. Thank you so much for the quick fix and for this great software.
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Hello Echo
It is possible that you have found another bug. The crash I’ve fixed is specific to Windows XP and the corresponding code is not executed under Windows 7.
What are the steps to reproduce the crash with your configuration? Are you using the 32-bit or the 64-bit version? Can you share me windows crash report/message?
Vyrtuoz thanks for the quick support, however that didn’t solve the problem for me. Also note that I’m running windows 7, not XP.
In any case these things can wait, have fun in your vacation! -
Tacview crashes right after I open the file, with both the 32 and 64 bit executables. I see the “opening file” dialog for a few seconds and then get the windows error message with options to check for online solution or close the program. When I click on “view problem details” this is what I get:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Tacview (64-bit).exe
Application Version: 1.2.2.0
Application Timestamp: 50ce9576
Fault Module Name: ig4icd64.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.15.10.2353
Fault Module Timestamp: 4d9a827d
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000000f6990
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1037
Additional Information 1: ead9
Additional Information 2: ead9c31fd18ebfc51b5532569e6b643b
Additional Information 3: 3be3
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OK solved, updating graphics driver did the trick and now tacview runs great
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Hi Vyrtuoz , any way to get even less fog because there is bit too much fog even redudec haze mode.
-Haukka81
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Actually we can see about 120 Km away with reduced fog. Compared to Falcon 4 “bubble” that’s not so bad
Now, I’m working on a new 3D renderer to display the whole earth at once, that should fix your problem…
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Hi Vyrtuoz,
i see Tacview 1.2.3 is out! Whats new in this version?
Any ideas when the online debrief will be available?many thanks for your great work!
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1.2.3 is primarily just a fix to allow recording of DCS:World following 1.2.3 update.
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What happened to TACView? Any chance of making it compatible with warthunder replays?
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Now I wish to report an issue: have a problem running tacview on my laptop. It’s not new to 1.2.1 and was present also in older versions. On most ACMI files the program hangs for a few seconds and then I get the windows error message (check for solution / close the program). It can happen some time into the recording or instantly upon opening up a file. It seems to be worse when there are many units in the recording or if I play with the camera view.
Laptop specs: HP pavilion G6-1040sj - core i3 2310m, 3 GB DDR3, integrated graphics 4500mhd, windows 7, directx 11.Been having this issue on my laptop as well (click here for specs) for some time now (at least 1.2.3 and .4). An eventless training flight (e.g. NAV or formation) can be viewed without problems, but as soon as ground troops are entering the bubble, TacView CTD’s. As was the case for Echo7, these are caused by ig4icd64.dll, and I tried upgrading my graphic drivers to the latest available (like he did) just an hour ago but the issue persists.
Anyone able to come up with another idea?
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Hello Eagle-Eye,
It looks like an OpenGL driver bug. I saw some with ATI and Intel graphic cards. In that case, please try to launch Tacview with the following command line parameter:
tacview.exe /VBO:off
This will disable an OpenGL optimization which is not well supported by some graphic card manufacturers. Let me know if this fix your problem.
By the way, can you share me your original VHS file and tell me how to reproduce the crash? That may help me to narrow down the issue and avoid this crash in future releases.
Vyrtuoz
Been having this issue on my laptop as well (click here for specs) for some time now (at least 1.2.3 and .4). An eventless training flight (e.g. NAV or formation) can be viewed without problems, but as soon as ground troops are entering the bubble, TacView CTD’s. As was the case for Echo7, these are caused by ig4icd64.dll, and I tried upgrading my graphic drivers to the latest available (like he did) just an hour ago but the issue persists.
Anyone able to come up with another idea?
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tacview.exe /VBO:off
This will disable an OpenGL optimization which is not well supported by some graphic card manufacturers. Let me know if this fix your problem.
Thanks for replying.
Did so, and now I get a red warning text in the lower right corner that I should update my graphics card drivers. At first glance (only tested a few .acmi-files, don’t have any VHS here) it does solve the problem, to some extent, though.
I say to some extent because it only works when I start TacView by the exe-shortcut on my desktop. If I double click an .acmi-file or try to open the exe directly from within the folder, it will still CTD.
By the way, can you share me your original VHS file and tell me how to reproduce the crash? That may help me to narrow down the issue and avoid this crash in future releases.
I’ll send you an .acmi in PM later today, if that’s alright as well, adding a screenshot with the time stamp where and expected reason why it CTD’s on me.
Cheers.
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TacView 1.2.5 is released.
Added support for DCS Steam edition, improved advanced telemetry, double trail size.
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Cool, on it, thanks.
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I even purchased the professional version, but to be honest other than just a visiual representation, tacview is completly useless as the most important feature (the telemetry data) for falcon is completly messed up and wrong (big time).
Vyrtuous, its a great tool and i believe in it, but it really needs improvement. If you need help (feedback or testings) let me know.
I know even the telemetry in falcon itself is not the best at the moment as the sampling rate is way off-sync (thus the bouncing numbers in replay).I had an interesting discussion with Mav-Jp about this, that it would be probably prossible to improve the sampling rate AND add additional data such as, G-forces, Angle of Attack and dynamic current Grossweight into the .vhs file in BMS itself.
Once that happens, i think tacview can convert better aswell. All that telemetry data (additional to the ones already displaced) can be read out from the BMS memory already, so it should not be a biggy to sophisticate the ingame ACMI replay data. Maybe (to save volume) data could be averaged aswell (divsion by seconds or less).
Mav-JP, if you read this… this is a big wish of mine…(you probably understand why) and i even remember mentioning to someone else, that i would send you a good bottle of german vine if you accomplish that .PS: Mav-JP, your pm box is full.
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@A.S:
(the telemetry data) for falcon is completly messed up and wrong.
Could you please elaborate a little bit?
If there are some Tacview given data not to be trusted, I would really like to know which ones and why.
@A.S:
other than just a visiol representation tacview completly useless as the most important feature (the telemetry data)
I completely disagree. Telemetry is one part, important but just a tiny picture of the overall tactical picture.
IMHO the capability to evaluate tactics by reviewing “globally” engagements is far more important.
I think it is a quite good an user friendly ACMI viewer.
Not perfect, but dev listens to his customers base even though in the last year our so, the development has slowed down a lot.
It is not perfect, but I have seen many RL debrief systems way worse than it.
Thanks