'Unable to play because the disk is full' when loading map

[Britzzzilla]

In the Vezins scenario, an error screen appears 'Unable to play because the disk is full' when loading the game map. I have re-installed the game but same error occurs. Over 1/3 of the disk space free (50GB+), so no idea what this means. Have not experienced this in any other scenario but still to play many of them, so can't be sure it is only this one scenario or not. Anybody able to help?
Thanks!

[SteveMcClaire]

Several temporary files are created when you're starting a battle -- I suspect you have a situation where the game does not have permission to read or write the files it is trying to copy, and the error message is interpreting the failure as 'there must not be space to save the file since it failed'.

Does it only happen with the Vezins battle, and no others?

The map files are in a directory named "Maps" under your installation directory. They are copied to the folder "Close Combat Panthers in the Fog\Temp\" under your Windows "My Documents" folder. If there was a general problem with reading or writing to these folders I would expect the error every time you try to play, and not just on Vezins though.

Have you installed any mods for the game?

Steve

[mooxe]

If this happened in the originals it was due to a corrupt map. The map files would have to be replaced.

[Britzzzilla]

Thank you both for getting back to me. This error does not occur with any other scenario in the game. I've started up each one just to check and no issues except with Vezins. There are no mods installed - I have not altered anything except setting my preferences in the game's Options. As mentioned, I've reinstalled the game and the same error recurs so I guess it's not a corrupt file, else the install file might be corrupted somehow (don't ask me about trying to re-download the install file or I'll start ranting about how that doesn't work). So still scratching my head on this. Unless someone can send me their map file that they know works?

[mooxe]

All I can suggest is downloading again from Matrix and reinstalling. I am still going along the theory that the map is corrupted. If I knew which map it was, I'd post my copy for you, mine works, but the maps folder uses a number scheme to name the maps... so no idea which one it is.

[SteveMcClaire]

Do you uninstall or delete files before you re-install? It could be that the re-install is not replacing existing files. Venzins is Map 29. You might try manually deleting all the Map29.* files in the MAPS folder and then re-install the game. Or just uninstall / delete everything to be sure it's not still present.

Are you installing to the default directory or somewhere else on the machine?

Steve

[Britzzzilla]

Well, third time lucky. The map finally seems to play. Uninstalled the game, which deletes the map files and this time it all seems to work. Still, no idea what was wrong there but guessing it was some form of file corruption of the graphic file.
I appreciate all your advice and encouragement. Finally got there in the end!

[SteveMcClaire]

Glad things are working now and thanks for letting us know how.

Steve