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Belphegor
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Can't start game

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Hi Guys...

dxdiag attached, log file to follow.

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09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: ******************** New Game *******************
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Current Directory: C:\program files\Matrix Games\Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: CodeBase: file:///C:/Program Files/Matrix Games/Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm/PCOWS.exe
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Assembly Name: PCOWS, Version=1.1.2.4400, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Managed DirectX:
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Microsoft.DirectX, Version=1.0.2902.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX, Version=1.0.2906.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
09-Aug-06 4:36:52 PM: Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput, Version=1.0.2902.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
09-Aug-06 4:37:12 PM: Loading Guns...
09-Aug-06 4:37:13 PM: Loading Armoured Units...
09-Aug-06 4:37:13 PM: Loading Infantry...
09-Aug-06 4:37:13 PM: Loading Scenarios...
09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: Loading Campaigns...
09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: Loading Tables...
09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: Assembly Name: Lib, Version=1.1.2.4399, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: Graphics format: X8R8G8B8
09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: DeviceIdentifier: d7b71ee2-080b-11cf-506a-1823a1c2cb35
WhqlLevel: 0
Revision: 0
SubSystemId: 51515394
DeviceId: 19275
VendorId: 4098
DriverVersion: 6.14.10.6626
DeviceName: \\.\DISPLAY1
Description: RADEON X850 Series
DriverName: ati2dvag.dll

09-Aug-06 4:37:14 PM: Manager Adapter value: 0
09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: Create device.

09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: HardwareVertexProcessing
09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: MultiSampleQuality: 2
PresentationInterval: Immediate
FullScreenRefreshRateInHz: 60
PresentFlag: None
AutoDepthStencilFormat: D16
EnableAutoDepthStencil: True
Windowed: False
DeviceWindowHandle: 0
DeviceWindow:
SwapEffect: Discard
MultiSample: NonMaskable
BackBufferCount: 1
BackBufferFormat: X8R8G8B8
BackBufferHeight: 1024
BackBufferWidth: 1280
ForceNoMultiThreadedFlag: False

09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: Create Flags: HardwareVertexProcessing
09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: Device Type: Hardware
09-Aug-06 4:37:21 PM: System.InvalidOperationException: Specified IComparer threw an exception. ---> System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
at System.DateTimeParse.GetDayOfNNY(DateTimeResult result, DateTimeRawInfo raw, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.ProcessTerminaltState(Int32 dps, DateTimeResult result, DateTimeRawInfo raw, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider, DateTimeStyles styles)
at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider)
at GameLib.BattleEngine.Data.ScenarioComparer.Compare(Object x, Object y)
at System.SorterObjectArray.QuickSort(Int32 left, Int32 right)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.SorterObjectArray.QuickSort(Int32 left, Int32 right)
at System.Array.Sort(Array keys, Array items, Int32 index, Int32 length, IComparer comparer)
at System.Collections.ArrayList.Sort(Int32 index, Int32 count, IComparer comparer)
at System.Collections.ArrayList.Sort(IComparer comparer)
at GameLib.Mainmenu.SetBattle.LoadResources()
at GameLib.GameState.MainmenuStateMachine.Startup()
at GameLib.GameState.MainMenu.OnEnter()
at GameLib.GameState.GameStateMachine..ctor()
at MainClass..ctor(CommandLine commandLine)
at MainClass.Main(String[] args)
09-Aug-06 4:37:21 PM:



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The game should have forced the date to be read according to the format it specified. Have you changed your Date / Time settings lately? What scenario are you playing?

Your log file shows this:
09-Aug-06 4:37:15 PM: Device Type: Hardware

Where mine is formatted like this:
8/4/2006 3:15:51 AM: Device Type: Hardware

The scenario date is formatted m/d/yyyy.

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haven't changed any date-time stuff as far as I can remember back...

I can't get to the scenario listings, the game closes back to the desktop after choosing the display options and trying to continue.

So if I reset my date options all will be well?

edit: indeed it is... weird.

I've kept the dd/mm/yyyy format that I need but it works fine with the game.
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I had the date set like that since I bought the computer a couple years back. I set it like that as it was the closest I could come to Canadian date display that I could get while still using the US keyboard location settings. I've reconfigured to use the Canadian location settings (and Canadian date config) and the problems of course went away.

I hated the language bar showing up when I chose English Canadian settings giving me the choice of loading English American or English Canadian when I chose Canadian. I've suppressed the language bar so it won't annoy me. [:)]
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what's more weird is that I looked at the code, and it is forcing en-us on the date-time function. Not only that, haven't you been running Panzer Command for a while now? I'm pretty sure this portion of the code hasn't changed in a while. I'm wondering if there is some other code change in the recent patch that affected this.

At least for now, you have a work around.
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Yup, but I uninstalled a little while ago and reinstalled... this wasn't working for me before the latest patch either...
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pre patch log... same as other

04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: ******************** New Game *******************
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Current Directory: C:\program files\Matrix Games\Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: CodeBase: file:///C:/Program Files/Matrix Games/Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm/PCOWS.exe
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Assembly Name: PCOWS, Version=1.0.0.16235, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Managed DirectX:
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Microsoft.DirectX, Version=1.0.2902.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX, Version=1.0.2906.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
04-Aug-06 4:30:44 PM: Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput, Version=1.0.2902.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Guns...
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Armoured Units...
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Infantry...
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Scenarios...
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Campaigns...
04-Aug-06 4:31:06 PM: Loading Tables...
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Assembly Name: Lib, Version=1.0.0.16233, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Graphics format: X8R8G8B8
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: DeviceIdentifier: d7b71ee2-080b-11cf-506a-1823a1c2cb35
WhqlLevel: 0
Revision: 0
SubSystemId: 51515394
DeviceId: 19275
VendorId: 4098
DriverVersion: 6.14.10.6626
DeviceName: \\.\DISPLAY1
Description: RADEON X850 Series
DriverName: ati2dvag.dll

04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Manager Adapter value: 0
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Create device.

04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: HardwareVertexProcessing
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: MultiSampleQuality: 2
PresentationInterval: Immediate
FullScreenRefreshRateInHz: 60
PresentFlag: None
AutoDepthStencilFormat: D16
EnableAutoDepthStencil: True
Windowed: False
DeviceWindowHandle: 0
DeviceWindow:
SwapEffect: Discard
MultiSample: NonMaskable
BackBufferCount: 1
BackBufferFormat: X8R8G8B8
BackBufferHeight: 1024
BackBufferWidth: 1280
ForceNoMultiThreadedFlag: False

04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Create Flags: HardwareVertexProcessing
04-Aug-06 4:31:07 PM: Device Type: Hardware
04-Aug-06 4:31:11 PM: System.InvalidOperationException: Specified IComparer threw an exception. ---> System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
at System.DateTimeParse.GetDayOfNNY(DateTimeResult result, DateTimeRawInfo raw, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.ProcessTerminaltState(Int32 dps, DateTimeResult result, DateTimeRawInfo raw, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider, DateTimeStyles styles)
at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider)
at GameLib.BattleEngine.Data.ScenarioComparer.Compare(Object x, Object y)
at System.SorterObjectArray.QuickSort(Int32 left, Int32 right)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.SorterObjectArray.QuickSort(Int32 left, Int32 right)
at System.Array.Sort(Array keys, Array items, Int32 index, Int32 length, IComparer comparer)
at System.Collections.ArrayList.Sort(Int32 index, Int32 count, IComparer comparer)
at System.Collections.ArrayList.Sort(IComparer comparer)
at GameLib.Mainmenu.SetBattle.LoadResources()
at GameLib.GameState.MainmenuStateMachine.Startup()
at GameLib.GameState.MainMenu.OnEnter()
at GameLib.GameState.GameStateMachine..ctor()
at MainClass..ctor(CommandLine commandLine)
at MainClass.Main(String[] args)
04-Aug-06 4:31:11 PM:
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