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4.5 crashing to desktop - 12/24/2000 7:37:00 AM   
kao16

 

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Status: offline 		Since loading 4.5 I have had a large number of incidents where the game crashes to desktop (actually to the SPWaW menu). Rec3ent example was when loading a saved game (part of WF). Enter human deploy (to check that it was the correct save game), exit deployment, then when I hit start it crashed. This doesn't happen all the time, and because I haven't started pulling my hair in frustration I don't think it has hit me when I have played for a while without saving - able to restart from basically wehere I was with the latest save game. I don't remember having this crash problem in 4.4 (although I did read that others were having problems).

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- 12/24/2000 9:40:00 PM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		No crashes as yet for me, but I'll keep you posted...WB ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 12/26/2000 12:40:00 AM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		I just had it crash to desktop when I was trying to save a map. troopie ------------------ Pamwe Chete

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- 12/26/2000 1:11:00 AM   
steel

 

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Status: offline 		I have same thing when playing scenario, game suddenlly crash to desktop.

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- 12/26/2000 8:38:00 PM   
David F. Wall

 

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Status: offline 		I've not had it crash to the desktop of its own volition, but I've had to crash it there myself because SPWAW hangs. DFW

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- 12/26/2000 11:39:00 PM   
Larry Holt

 

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Originally posted by Wild Bill: No crashes as yet for me, but I'll keep you posted...WB
WB, I'm still playing from the CD I got via you and the game crashes to the desktop once every few hours. It seems to have no pattern. Sometimes its while I am moving and sometimes during the AI's turn. There is no corrupted memory and the game can be restarted (some programs will not restart after a crash until you reboot the system). ------------------ An old soldier but not yet a faded one. OK, maybe just a bit faded.

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- 12/28/2000 10:24:00 AM   
BruceAZ


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Status: offline 		I have had it happen to me a few times with 4.5. Never did with any other version. Haven't a clue why...

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- 12/28/2000 4:35:00 PM   
skukko


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Status: offline 		? and again ? As I tried to figure out editors at the game I found out myself often at the desktop. I have sort of list of what not to do if you want to stay out of desktop. I have thought they are commonly known errors so I've kept myself quiet on this. Is this map-thing-error well known or should I post my notes here? let me know. mosh

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- 12/28/2000 8:14:00 PM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		It is odd, because the crashing to desktop began when I installed ver.4.4. I uninstalled and went back to ver. 4.3b. It was very stable. Another interesting note. The maps and scenarios that been overwritten by later patches returned at 4.3b. troopie ------------------ Pamwe Chete

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- 12/29/2000 8:59:00 PM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		I have had a rare occasional crash but nothing of the intensity you guys have had. Try (as usual) removing that tricky steel.prf file when it happens and see if that resolves it. I am looking for the problem, fellas....WB ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 12/29/2000 9:25:00 PM   
Warhorse


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Status: offline 		Don't know, maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had ANY crashes at all!! And that's with a modified exe. in the one install(other than the steel prf. needing to be deleted every time)?! ------------------ Mike Amos Meine Ehre Heisst Treue

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- 12/30/2000 3:31:00 AM   
Gallo Rojo


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Status: offline 		I had some crash downs playing version 4.5. The game suddenly stops and appears a pop window that says “you have less than 5mg free memory”. I have a Pentium III, 8 GB disc and 128 RAM. 76% system sources free at the moment that I start my PC. So I don’t think that could be a lack memory problem.

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- 12/30/2000 7:23:00 AM   
skukko


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Status: offline 		<<<<<< No crashes as yet for me, but I'll keep you posted...WB <<<<<<< No, because you know were to go and what to click. Took a while for me in 4.4 to learn. <<<<<< I've not had it crash to the desktop of its own volition, but I've had to crash it there myself because SPWAW hangs. DFW <<<<<<<<<< You should try to open your cd-rom, alt-tab to another probram(blank IE-page)and get back to game with alt-tab. Works for me. <<<<<<<< I just had it crash to desktop when I was trying to save a map. troopie <<<<<<<<< If you try to save a map in other place than in the 'editor/edit map/' it crashes in mostly. Here is one adjacent feature: rename map in maps folder. Open game and then try to load map: No success. You'll find yourself at the win-desktop. Rename/place them with editor. <<<<<<<<<<<<<< I've noticed that turning this background music off have stabilised game. From 4.3 to 4.5. If I have it hanged or crashed during playing I just turn that off and it doesn't do it again. I have studiostuff as my soundcards. just trying to help mosh

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- 12/30/2000 12:50:00 PM   
kao16

 

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Status: offline 		Had another crash - had just finished a battle in WF (2nd battle, completed in one go without any saves) - went throught the fix and upgrade screens and then hit save game. Entered new file name, hit button to save it and the game crashed. Restarted SPWAW and looked at saved games. The file name I had just saved showed up - opening it revealed it was the save file for the game/battle completed (playable, not corrupted). This suggests that crashing occurs when files are opeded/closed.

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- 12/30/2000 1:35:00 PM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		Thanks - that sort of info is a BIG help!

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- 12/30/2000 2:33:00 PM   
bbbf

 

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Status: offline 		Similar crash just happened to me, just saved game and booted out. Again save game is uncorrupted.

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- 12/31/2000 11:11:00 AM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		I was in the edit maps screen. I clicked on the save map icon. It dropped me in the save maps list. I picked an empty slot, wrote in the name and hit enter. It crashed to the desktop. Can someone tell me how to avoid this in the future? Dankie, troopie ------------------ Pamwe Chete

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- 1/1/2001 7:18:00 AM   
bthom

 

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Status: offline 		I've also apparently suffered a game crash as well. I didn't realize it was a crash at the time because my Norton Antivirus started a scan. That seemed odd to me because I shut off all running programs in my task bar before playing any games. It appears that the crash activates Norton even when it is disabled!! The crash is to the SPWAW scenarios screen. I can turn Norton back off and then click on the SPWAW program button at the bottom of the screen and I'm back in the scenario where I was so rudely interupted! This has happened a few times in version 4.4 and 4.5. I don't know if I would call it a crash but more of an interuption. I play quite a few other games but have never experianced this problem with them. Well problem solvers I hope this helps.

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- 1/1/2001 6:23:00 PM   
kao16

 

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Status: offline 		Another crash: Saved the game, Pressed for end of turn, Artillery comes down...Bang, bash, CRASH!!! back to first menu (game, manual, toe... etc menu) Able to restart from the save, and game continued with no problems (except for all those SO infantry shooting up my SPAA HTs).

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- 1/9/2001 9:57:00 AM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		Finally got 4.5 to work in the map edit screen. I deleted the program. Re-installed 4.0 (Dankie Nikademus!) then upgraded to 4.3b. Played that for a few days. Then I deleted the steel prf.file and all my saves. Then I reinstalled 4.4 and 4.5. The map edit worked with no crash. troopie ------------------ Pamwe Chete

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