Swapping ships triggers a crash

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Swapping ships triggers a crash

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I attempted to "swap" the position of two Axis ships and received and error message and the game crashed. This happened again when I opened the game again and again tried the swap. Playing another gamer via PBEM++.
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This happened again in another game against another opponent, different scenario. I try to have two ships next to each other swap positions, and the game crashes.
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Yes I had the same issue as well. Exactly the same, game crashed with same error message. Retried with a different ship for same result.
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Thanks, this is now fixed and we hope to have an update out fairly soon.
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If you are fixing that perhaps you should put in swapping with air units to another air unit. I know air units and land units is used strategically but air units should be able to switch between themselves.
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BillRunacre wrote: Fri Oct 03, 2025 9:12 am Thanks, this is now fixed and we hope to have an update out fairly soon.
Just had this happen in American Civil War, so it seems to be an issue across the patches that recently came out.
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HarrySmith wrote: Sun Oct 05, 2025 1:09 am If you are fixing that perhaps you should put in swapping with air units to another air unit. I know air units and land units is used strategically but air units should be able to switch between themselves.
I was told that if one of the air units conducted actions, they can't swap. Don't know the why behind this change.
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havoc1371 wrote: Mon Oct 06, 2025 12:05 pm
BillRunacre wrote: Fri Oct 03, 2025 9:12 am Thanks, this is now fixed and we hope to have an update out fairly soon.
Just had this happen in American Civil War, so it seems to be an issue across the patches that recently came out.
Same, also War in the Pacific & WWI :roll:
All except WIE.
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Games still randomly crashing when swapping ships in SC: ACW. Hasn't happened in a while in World at War, since the corrective update.
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Thanks for the reports and I believe the fix is coming out this week if all goes well
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havoc1371 wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:29 pm Games still randomly crashing when swapping ships in SC: ACW. Hasn't happened in a while in World at War, since the corrective update.
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.

The current version is 1.11.01.01.01, which isn’t listed in the notes at all:
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Bibergockel wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:09 pm
havoc1371 wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:29 pm Games still randomly crashing when swapping ships in SC: ACW. Hasn't happened in a while in World at War, since the corrective update.
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.
Well I guess it didn't fix the problem, because swapping ships still caused the game to crash.
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havoc1371 wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 6:02 pm
Bibergockel wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:09 pm
havoc1371 wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:29 pm Games still randomly crashing when swapping ships in SC: ACW. Hasn't happened in a while in World at War, since the corrective update.
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.
Well I guess it didn't fix the problem, because swapping ships still caused the game to crash.
Strange. The save file that caused the problem for me (see screenshot above) now works and no longer causes a crash. I have the Steam version. Maybe someone from the dev team could comment on this topic.
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Bibergockel wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:09 pm
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.

The current version is 1.11.01.01.01, which isn’t listed in the notes at all:
There are no version notes as it was supposed to be simply a quick update to the game exe in order to fix some bugs.

The extra campaigns are not finished and should not have been included, it is best to ignore them until proper versions are released later this month.
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havoc1371 wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 6:02 pm Well I guess it didn't fix the problem, because swapping ships still caused the game to crash.
In which game is this, and via which platform have you updated the game, i.e. is it via Steam that you're playing it, or from elsewhere?
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BillRunacre wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 12:36 pm
Bibergockel wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:09 pm
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.

The current version is 1.11.01.01.01, which isn’t listed in the notes at all:
There are no version notes as it was supposed to be simply a quick update to the game exe in order to fix some bugs.

The extra campaigns are not finished and should not have been included, it is best to ignore them until proper versions are released later this month.
Thank you for the quick reply, Bill. Hopefully WITP will be soon get a quick update to the game exe too. :)
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BillRunacre wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 12:37 pm
havoc1371 wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 6:02 pm Well I guess it didn't fix the problem, because swapping ships still caused the game to crash.
In which game is this, and via which platform have you updated the game, i.e. is it via Steam that you're playing it, or from elsewhere?
SC: ACW. I updated from the website. Playing it via PBEM++ in the game on my PC, not Steam.
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Bibergockel wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 1:28 pm
BillRunacre wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 12:36 pm
Bibergockel wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:09 pm
On Monday, October 27th, a patch for ACW was released, which apparently fixed the problem. However, I can’t find anything about it in the patch notes.
In addition, the free campaign “1894 Imperial Twilight” has already been released — thanks for that! ;) :mrgreen:
Now it seems that only the patch for WITP is still missing. Why that is, only God knows.

The current version is 1.11.01.01.01, which isn’t listed in the notes at all:
There are no version notes as it was supposed to be simply a quick update to the game exe in order to fix some bugs.

The extra campaigns are not finished and should not have been included, it is best to ignore them until proper versions are released later this month.
Thank you for the quick reply, Bill. Hopefully WITP will be soon get a quick update to the game exe too. :)
Checked the website and see that there was a new patch uploaded on 27 Oct. Didn't know about it, so I'm installing it now.
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They switched back and the fix is gone for ACW
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Bibergockel wrote: Sun Nov 02, 2025 6:53 am They switched back and the fix is gone for ACW
Correct, the update on Steam was reverted to the previous version, then they will be rolling out a corrected game exe in due course.

The Matrix and GOG versions are still correct and has the issue fixed, it is only the Steam one that needs to be updated now.
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