0.5.16.1 0.5.16.1 Current issues & workarounds

[Kandly]

 

Greetings, Captains!

 

May the upcoming year bring you good luck and fortune in the fierce battles of World of Warships.

 

The dev team would like to share some important information with you on a number of issues affecting game version 0.5.16.1. Fixing those issues is risky and requires thorough preparations that we're regretfully unable to make during this busy pre-New Year period. However, we've come up with a number of workarounds for you to avoid those issues.

 

1.Many players complain about lags and freezes that make gameplay uncomfortable. It is, therefore, very important to adjust graphics settings in the game to make sure that the resources of your game station are allocated in the most efficient way. Below you'll find a number of hints on how to make things work better.

You'll need to play around with the settings a bit in order to find a configuration that would be optimal for you. We recommend playing one or two battles after every change you make so that you can clearly see how they affect your graphics:

a.Reduce Texture Quality;

b.Set MSAA settings to 4x/2x;

c.Disable Additional Reflections;

d.Modify settings of the Effects Preset.

 

2.One of the bugs in version 0.5.16 is associated with the music customization feature that allows players to play their own music in the game. If the Listen to your own music feature is enabled in Audio Settings and new tracks have been added to the /res/userMusic/ folder, the game client may consume RAM resources in an uncontrollable manner when minimized (memory leaks). When the amount of RAM used reaches 4 GB, the game client crashes. The leak takes place only when the game client is minimized (by pressing Alt+Tab of by selecting a window other than that of the game). If the game client window is expanded back, RAM is not released.

 

The issue manifests itself in all regimes of game client display (Windowed, Full-screen and Full-screen windowed).

 

Suggested temporary workarounds:

- Do not activate the Listen to your own music feature;

- Do not leave the game client minimized for extended periods of time when the feature mentioned above is enabled.

 

Anyway, forewarned is forearmed. Please keep it in mind while playing World of Warships.

 

3.Certain players using PCs running on Windows 10 Pro as their primary gaming platforms have experienced game client crashes shortly after login.

 

The issue may be resolved using this ZIP archive. Usage guide:

- Unzip the archive (file + file folder) into the parent directory of the game (the one containing the WorldOfWarships.exe file);

- Launch the checkout_wows.exe file and select one of the two suggested options:

               1 – Replace the existing WorldOfWarships.exe file with a new one; or

               2 – Restore the previous WorldOfWarships.exe file if it has already been replaced.

- To be on the safe side, before it gets replaced, the original WorldOfWarships.exe is copied into the Backup folder and supplemented with an extra extension (*.original). It may be used to restore the file if need be.

 

We strongly recommend using this temporary solution only if the aforementioned issue is present.

 

Please share your feedback with us if you experienced any of these issues or whether the solutions we offered were helpful or not.

 

Action stations! 

Kandly

 

[Hesp]

Once I have disabled "Listen to your own music" there have been no crashes with the minimized game and the RAM consumption is stable.

[OlliN]

2.One of the bugs in version 0.5.16 is associated with the music customization feature that allows players to play their own music in the game. If the Listen to your own music feature is enabled in Audio Settings and new tracks have been added to the /res/userMusic/ folder, the game client may consume RAM resources in an uncontrollable manner when minimized (memory leaks). When the amount of RAM used reaches 4 GB, the game client crashes. The leak takes place only when the game client is minimized (by pressing Alt+Tab of by selecting a window other than that of the game). If the game client window is expanded back, RAM is not released.

 

The issue manifests itself in all regimes of game client display (Windowed, Full-screen and Full-screen windowed).

 

Suggested temporary workarounds:

- Do not activate the Listen to your own music feature;

- Do not leave the game client minimized for extended periods of time when the feature mentioned above is enabled.

 

Fixed or not fixed in 0.6.0? There is nothing in the changelog.