Demo crashing/problems

[von Döbeln]

After a 3 hour battle (Montebello map and armies) in which I finally managed to break the French and drive them towards their rear the game freezes (at 7.11 o' clock so I'm guessing the battle is about to end) and I get no end game stats or anything. I have to alt-tab to desktop and quit the game from there. Quite annoying after spending so much time with an interesting battle.

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[Hook]

the game freezes (at 7.11 o' clock so I'm guessing the battle is about to end) and I get no end game stats or anything. I have to alt-tab to desktop and quit the game from there. Quite annoying after spending so much time with an interesting battle.

I've got one dollar (Euro conversion optional) that says you were in the 3D view near the village watching the attack there when this happened.  If you get too close to the map edge there, the game freezes.  Known bug.

Hook

[von Döbeln]

I was actually in the 2D view when it happened, that's what's strange. I only seem to get these freezes when I'm at 06/60 speed (which I was this time too). But maybe that's a coincidence.

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[JMM]

Could you send me (histwar@histwar.com) the xxx.sav file (folder save/bataille)

THX
JMM

[von Döbeln]

Sent save game to you JMM.

vD

[Uxbridge]

Just for the record, last night the game loaded very fast (making me think that something had been retained in RAM) and locked up almost at once, requiring a hard reset. After the reboot I ran it again and it locked up again, once more requiring a reset. The third time it ran perfectly.

I think that both crashes occurred when the cursor was on the edge of the 2D map ( I was trying to find the wagons mentioned in the Line of Operation thread I started a little while ago). On the third try, I moved around the centre of the map flicking between 2D and 3D before venturing to the edge (where the wagons were waiting - loved the silhouettes of the pack-horses in the distance, by the way.)  I am not bothered that a demo crashes but it worries me that my PC locks up and I cannot even use ctrl-alt-del but must power it off.

These are the first crashes I have had with the demo.

[Formaldehyde]

There is some behavior that I'm seeing fairly consistently that seems like it needs tweaking.  Sometimes units seem to "fixate" on an enemy.  I've had units march across the map to continue an attack, regardless of their low morale or lack of nearby friendly forces.  See the attached picture for the last instance of this behavior.  A light infantry unit engaged some enemy infantry.  The enemy broke, and my unit followed, but was buffered by 2 enemy artillery units, and the entire enemy force lay directly ahead.  All of my main force remained far behind. 

I can provide a file, if I can be told which one it may be and where I can find it.

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[JMM]

There is some behavior that I'm seeing fairly consistently that seems like it needs tweaking.  Sometimes units seem to "fixate" on an enemy.  I've had units march across the map to continue an attack, regardless of their low morale or lack of nearby friendly forces.  See the attached picture for the last instance of this behavior.  A light infantry unit engaged some enemy infantry.  The enemy broke, and my unit followed, but was buffered by 2 enemy artillery units, and the entire enemy force lay directly ahead.  All of my main force remained far behind.  

I can provide a file, if I can be told which one it may be and where I can find it.

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You can send the battle file (folder save/bataille) to histwar@histwar.com

THX
JMM

[EDIT JMM] Address e-mail: Yes harry.. my bigs fingers made a msitake 

[LNDavout]

Had a new expirience in 3d mode

I had an machinegun artillery. One single canonen fired like a machingun for several minutes playtime.

Strange. But it did not more damage then normal... so sound or graphics bug of minor importance i think.

[HarryInk]

JMM, is it histwar@hsitwar.com  or   histwar@histwar.com??

[eblingus]

Game will not start.  It crashes as soon as I double-click on the shortcut.

Windows XP SP3
P4 CPU
GeForce 7600 video card

Error Message:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<DATABASE>
<EXE NAME="LGDN.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="LGDN.exe" SIZE="2625599" CHECKSUM="0xD0DDC58C" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.5.0.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.0.0.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Client" COMPANY_NAME="Com and Play" PRODUCT_NAME="Les Grognards" FILE_VERSION="" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="LGdN.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="HW:LGdN" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="JM Mathé Copyright © 2003" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20000" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.5.0.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.0.0.0" LINK_DATE="11/29/2009 04:51:24" UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/29/2009 04:51:24" VER_LANGUAGE="French (France) [0x40c]" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="Serveur.dll" SIZE="462922" CHECKSUM="0x33F12820" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="11/29/2009 04:51:18" UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/29/2009 04:51:18" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="ntdll.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="ntdll.dll" SIZE="714752" CHECKSUM="0xC695BA95" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755" FILE_DESCRIPTION="NT Layer DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft® Windows® Operating System" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755 (xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="ntdll.dll" INTERNAL_NAME="ntdll.dll" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xBC674" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5755" LINK_DATE="02/09/2009 12:10:48" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/09/2009 12:10:48" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="kernel32.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="kernel32.dll" SIZE="989696" CHECKSUM="0x2D998938" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT BASE API Client DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft® Windows® Operating System" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781 (xpsp_sp3_gdr.090321-1317)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32" INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xFE572" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.5781" LINK_DATE="03/21/2009 14:06:58" UPTO_LINK_DATE="03/21/2009 14:06:58" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
</DATABASE>

[JMM]

Could you send the spyboard.txt (folder tracking) to histwar@histwar.com

THX...

JMM

PS : I didn't add the package DitectX 9.0c within the package.. I'll do for the Release (and the demo)
It's possible some one gets a crash if DitectX 9.0 isn't installed 

[eblingus]

The is no spyboard.txt.  Only a nullfile.txt, which is blank.

[mike1997]

I have a new computer wich runs Windows 7.  On my previous rig the demo ran fine.  Now it wont start and none of the fixes above work.  When the full game comes out will it be Windows 7 compitable out of the box?

[mike1997]

I had the demo working on my old xp rig but got a new Windows 7 computer and now the demo does not work.  None of the fixes suggested on the demo crash thread work for me.  I was wondering if the game will be fixed for Windows 7 "out of the box" when the full game is released?

[EDIT by DoE] Merged Histwar and windows 7 thread with Demo crashing/problems thread