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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth

Were you flicking between the game and some other application? For example, flicking between the game and the manual while it said "Please Wait..."?

I think that is what is causing this.

For the short term, don't open (or maximise) any other screen when it says "Please Wait". [8D]
I will of course try and fix it.

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ORIGINAL: erthalion
I can partially confirm that. At the first time I switched between the task manager window and the game just to see what's going on. Now I tried to not switch between windows/open new windows. Here is what happened (maybe it's actually a bit different from others, I'm not sure):

* I finished a "movie" for the last turn and clicked to go to the next phase
* "Please Wait" screen (loader is animating)
* I was waiting for 20 mins not touching anything (I assume it's enough for whatever should be there after this screen)
* "Please Wait" is still there (loader is animating)
* I switched to the task manager, then back
* "Please Wait" is still there (loader isn't animating, so probably that's the freeze you're taking about)

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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth
Were you playing an AI vs AI game with the "Skip AI turns" turned on???
That can take a while as it plays both sides and only shows the film when the game is over.

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ORIGINAL: erthalion
Nope. As you may remember, it was mentioned in this thread that the problem appears at the introductory scenario as well as any other, and there is no "AI vs AI" in it, so please focus. This problem also happened for me when I tried to play "Gazala: First five days", but I was playing "Human vs AI" (even without "Skip AI turns"). As much as I enjoy the idea behind this game and it's historical accuracy, I don't really like the idea of being a game tester.

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ORIGINAL: zakblood
never had it happen once even in over 6 months of testing it :(

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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth
If you reload an autosave game and redo, does it happen again?

NtReleaseMutant
NtDelayExecution
NtWaitForMultipleObjects

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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth

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ORIGINAL: erthalion

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If you reload an autosave game and redo, does it happen again?

Same fault from reloading saves.

Only finished the tutorial thus far, but I fear I will have the same problem when I finish Operazione E.

Good luck with the fix.

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ORIGINAL: erthalion

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ORIGINAL: zakblood
never had it happen once even in over 6 months of testing it :(

Well, there is a chance that it's just some weird quirk on my windows 8 installation,
but it's actually almost untouched, since I don't really use it.

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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth
If you reload an autosave game and redo, does it happen again?

Yes, that's exactly how I reproduce it right now - I'm going to the autosave for the last turn
and continue from it.

I've managed to run it under drstrace to get a log of syscalls. The sequence of actions was:

* start autorun under drstrace
* "play game"
* "resume" the last autosave
* go to next phase
* wait for a few minutes
* kill the task and exit

Significant part of the log is polluted with the following pattern:

NtReleaseMutant
NtDelayExecution
NtWaitForMultipleObjects

It feels like the main thread is waiting for some object without success.
I can send you the full log via direct message.

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ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

Me too I finally figured some things out thought I would win the starting (tutorial) scenario had played the movie as usual one frame at a time after done hit to advance and as described went to the picture and please wait - wait - wait

I had finished the scenario earlier (and lost) and it did not freeze but this time add me to the problem listmwith the rest.

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ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

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ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

Me too I finally figured some things out thought I would win the starting (tutorial) scenario had played the movie as usual one frame at a time after done hit to advance and as described went to the picture and please wait - wait - wait

I had finished the scenario earlier (and lost) and it did not freeze but this time add me to the problem listmwith the rest.

For what it's worth, I'm still on win 7

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ORIGINAL: erthalion
It feels like the main thread is waiting for some object without success.
I can send you the full log via direct message.

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ORIGINAL: zakblood

if using the same moves and saves you can replicate the error, that would also be good Yogi, then passing that information on, may help, if a set of known moves and from a save can get to the same point, the developer may have a developer build which may debug the error, sounds right, but not sure also, as i can't replicate it atm on windows 10 anyway

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ORIGINAL: russkly

I've just finished Operazione E and experienced the same problem when trying to complete the scenario.

On clicking, "Proceed to next turn" after the final turn, "Please wait" splash screen comes up, and this time I left it for 20 mins before having to Task Manager out.

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On clicking, "Proceed to next turn" after the final turn

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ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth

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On clicking, "Proceed to next turn" after the final turn

WEll, there's maybe 2 bugs.
1) the Wait Animate stops - that's fixed and will be in a patch.
2) the Wait animate doesn't stop - I can't reproduce that here and not sure why that's happening.

Do you know if your problem was 1 or 2?

(to avoid 1, don't open / close any other windown when the "Please Wait" is showing).