Game Crashes and flashing screens

[DRG]

OK, I'll have Andy check the thread. I'm going on vacation for 10 days starting tomorrow.

Don

[Flyboy]

New type of crash I haven't read about yet on this board:

-when in purchase screen for PBEM games, the game crashes everytime I click on 'previous' to navigate back and forth on the list of what I've purchased.

-doesn't happen when I click on 'first unit' or 'next', only 'previous'

It happened 4 times in a row yesterday.

Is this a known bug?

[Mobhack]

Flyboy said:
New type of crash I haven't read about yet on this board:

-when in purchase screen for PBEM games, the game crashes everytime I click on 'previous' to navigate back and forth on the list of what I've purchased.

-doesn't happen when I click on 'first unit' or 'next', only 'previous'

It happened 4 times in a row yesterday.

Is this a known bug?

Fixed as part of the forthcoming patch:

4) A problem in XP which could cause a crash (and very rarely in Windows 98) when deleting formations on purchasing when the formation spanned 2 pages was fixed. Now when a formation is deleted, the entire list is recalculated.

Cheers
Andy

[LanceRunolfsson]

I'm tired so maybe I missed above somthing but I cant get past turn one before it crashe. Always when I try to advance the turn full screen mode no sound. running 98se

[DRG]

LanceRunolfsson said:
I'm tired so maybe I missed above somthing but I cant get past turn one before it crashe. Always when I try to advance the turn full screen mode no sound. running 98se

Try typing DXdiag after pressing Start then Run and see if your DX is working correctly. How much memory do you have in your machine and what speed is it? So this happens only when you end your turn?

Don

[Mobhack]

LanceRunolfsson said:
I'm tired so maybe I missed above somthing but I cant get past turn one before it crashe. Always when I try to advance the turn full screen mode no sound. running 98se

You may well have a bad coded, or one of the cards that cannot play multiple MP3 sound files siimultaneously.

Turn all sound off:
1) on the Game Options programme Misc tab - set mouse click to off.
2) Open the game and choose PREFERENCES and in there set Sound FX and Battle FX both to OFF.

Exit game to ensure preferences saved, then re-enter and try a quick test game. If your problems went away then you have either a bad audio codec installed, or a sound card which cannot hack multiple MP3 streams (the latter tend to be, but are not always, budget integrated sound chips).

A bad codec is up to you to find by checking your installed codecs through the usual windows utilities. (The name of the codec may be in the crash report - XP gives you one of these, not sure about Se. The crash report may report about a bad .vxd file for example).

If your sound card and/or codec cannot handle multiple MP3 files, there are instructions elsewhere (and these will be included in the patch) how to convert the sounds to WAV format, and to update the sounds.ini file to point to WAV files. Try searching the forum for "goldwave" (the conversion programme) to find these posts.

Cheers
Andy

[LanceRunolfsson]

All DX works right except 3d acceleration 9 not supported by hard ware.

Killing all sound seems to cure problem thanks Guys