• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

WeatherScope Problems?

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I have been in constant contact with the guys at OCS trying to determine what is going wrong with Weatherscope on my machine. I have a 256mb nVIDIA GeForce FX-5500 card with a Machspeed motherboard and 3.0 GhZ P4 CPU. It continues to crash and I have checked drivers and everything and I can not determine a solution. It runs fine on my laptop with the ATI 128mb card installed. Another friend has a laptop with an nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS card and his does the same thing. Anyone know a possible solution? Thanks.
 
Well, just enough to get a good card to run the program. I don't understand how the card can not support Direct X 9.0C yet it runs GR2AE and all the other programs that HAVE to have that version of DirectX. I'm still going to make an attempt by changing the video card. I suppose I might need to go with an ATI this time. Either AGP 4x or 8x.
 
I have been in constant contact with the guys at OCS trying to determine what is going wrong with Weatherscope on my machine. I have a 256mb nVIDIA GeForce FX-5500 card with a Machspeed motherboard and 3.0 GhZ P4 CPU. It continues to crash and I have checked drivers and everything and I can not determine a solution. It runs fine on my laptop with the ATI 128mb card installed. Another friend has a laptop with an nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS card and his does the same thing. Anyone know a possible solution? Thanks.

Keep in mind I haven't used Weatherscope much but I believe its OpenGL based and not DirectX. With that in mind rushing out to buy a new video card might not be the best idea. Have the OCS guys done any sort of debugging, have you sent them a crash dump? I'd suspect this plus a quirk in either some video cards or a way they are doing things as the problem. That said changing video cards might fix your problems anyways.
 
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