Scourge of War Boards

Norb/Team,

It is my sad duty to report, after all of yesterdays glorious combat, I have had no less then 4 CTDs in a row this morning. All happened roughly 5 minutes into the game. Nothing has changed or has been changed. They all were Sp Sandbox games, no-one being available in MP so far. I used both modded and stock Federal OOBs. All other mods were ones that have been in place for a long time. Yes, the latest patch is installed. Am going to reboot the comp and try again, this time with Reb OOBs. Will report back.

Your Obedient Servant,

Jack O'Neill B)

Hang in there, patch correction on the way...good testing so far. You Generals will be up and commanding as soon as possible.

Roger that, RB.

Game is now completely unplayable. 3 more CTDs today. Hoping the patch is the answer. Do not want to have to re-install game.

Sic Semper Fidelis

Jack

I have read with interest all this Ctd problems, why is it some people have this problem and some dont.

I have the new patch no problems with it at all, only improvements, I run windows 7 dont know if the Ctd's are Vista O/S only or if Windows 7 users get this too.

Braxton Bragg

Hey Brax,

A lot of us are still running on XP or XP Pro. It is indeed very odd how it could change, literally overnight, for me.

Norb/Team,

Am posting latest crash log here. Maybe it will help.

Jack

Game Launched
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06:00:00 Verifying Terrain Integrity
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06:00:00 Chain of Command: Top Commander Maj Gen Winfield S Hancock
06:00:00 Chain of Command: Top Commander Lt Gen James Longstreet
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06:00:00 13:55:49

Norb/Team,

Just ran an MP game that worked. Game ran for 55-60 minutes before CTD. So thats something. BTW, I played against the AI. No Human Commanders available at the time. Now, the question I have is this - did the latest patch come with new combat sound files? I seem to hear different rifle-musket sounds, ricochets and such. Anyway, at least I can play a version of MP.

Jack

norb wrote:

Zeno,

Have you ever gotten the game to run? If you have, can you remember what changes you made that stopped it from running?

To be honest, I have no idea what I did to makle it stop running, however, I have been able to get into the game in the past.

zenozigaganbottom wrote:

norb wrote:

Zeno,

Have you ever gotten the game to run? If you have, can you remember what changes you made that stopped it from running?

To be honest, I have no idea what I did to makle it stop running, however, I have been able to get into the game in the past.

AVG runs automatic updates...Ring a bell?

It works. Merci boucoup all.

Jack ONeill wrote:

Norb/Team,

Just ran an MP game that worked. Game ran for 55-60 minutes before CTD. So thats something. BTW, I played against the AI. No Human Commanders available at the time. Now, the question I have is this - did the latest patch come with new combat sound files? I seem to hear different rifle-musket sounds, ricochets and such. Anyway, at least I can play a version of MP.

Jack

Yep, rewrite of the sound code. Same sounds, just adjusted to fix the random 'dropping out of sounds' for some folks. You may notice all the non gui sounds are louder, I had to adjust my mod to accommodate the bugle calls, they were swallowed up.

Your log shows nothing abnormal, but that's expected. Log files are not picking up the crashes, that's one of the reasons we thought the release was clean. Clean for some folks, but issues for others, the hardest bugs to track down.

Be patient, great patch with many new pluses, it'll be worth this little 'tense' time.

Thanks for helping out, and not yelling at us... :woohoo: