just downloaded, game won't run

[augustus]

just got the game on thursday. The game will go through the options screen okay, but after that it will stop during the loading streen and I get a dialog box that says "assertion Failed" and some other stuff. My only options are the old "abort" "retry" "failed".

[EagleMountainDK]

Hi, have you tried to update your graphic driver from http://www.nvidia.com

[ericbabe]

What's the assertion that failed?

Do you have any other applications running that might be using a lot of memory?

[augustus]

I'm not running any other applications.

The message says

assertion failed!

Program: c:\matrix games\forge of freedom\forge of freedom.exe
file: c:\projects\ACWplato\source\TGeneral.cpp
Line: 213

Expression: pGeneralList.hState<34

This is as I try to start the July 1861 scenario, haven't tried any other yet.

[ericbabe]

Strange.&nbsp; It's an invalid value in the generals' data file, and so doesn't have anything to do with an out-of-memory error (which is the usual cause of assertion failures on load) as I had suspected.

My guess is that for some reason your game is being prevented from being installed properly.&nbsp; Would you mind checking to see whether you have a Commanders.txt file in the various scenario folders you try to load?&nbsp; Each file should be about 730K in size.&nbsp; Sometimes virus programs prevent our games from installing properly.&nbsp; I'm not sure which virus programs you may be using, but you might try temporarily disabling them while installing.

[Erik Rutins]

Wait, are you trying to start the old July, 1861 scenario with a newer version? That one should have been removed by the update. If it's called "July, 1861" - it's obsolete and incompatible, don't start it. Check the readme, the up to date July, 1861 scenario is now called "Coming Fury".

[augustus]

Erik Rutkins was correct. I had missed that in the Read me file. Thank you all for your help!

[uncc]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Wait, are you trying to start the old July, 1861 scenario with a newer version? That one should have been removed by the update. If it's called "July, 1861" - it's obsolete and incompatible, don't start it. Check the readme, the up to date July, 1861 scenario is now called "Coming Fury".

FYI -- Well, I just bought and downloaded FoF today (12/12/07, ~2pm ET, USA) and the original July 1861 scenario is still in version 1.10.10 and still causes the Assertion Failed error. Of course it was the 1st scenario I picked to give FoF a test go, and ... crash! [:-] [:'(]

[Erik Rutins]

Thanks, I know that was supposed to be removed - I'll see how it slipped through and correct that for the future. Every other scenario should work fine.

[augustus]

So I'd be right in assuming I can just delete the July_1861 folder from the scenario folder and it won't effect anything? I like my hard drive to be as tidy as possible.

[Gil R.]

Yes, delete that folder and you're fine.