Possible 7.0 lockup problem

Panzer Commander · Post by **Panzer Commander** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 8:58 pm

I just upgraded to 7.0 and had a long campaign in progress. I figured I would try to play it out or if it got too weird with any OOB issues just start over.

I noticed that after if you save the game after the battle results screen and then exit the campaign and then try to restart the campaign the game freezes on the movie introduction screen where the CONTINUE button resides. I know this has worked before.

lnp4668 · Post by **lnp4668** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 9:24 pm

May wants to delete the steel.prf file. It may have beens corrupted. Patch 6.1 automatically deleted the steel.prf and overwrite it with a new one. Not sure if this is done with 7.0 (still haven't upgrade until all my opponents decided to upgrade.)

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 11:28 pm

Originally posted by Panzer Commander:
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I noticed that after if you save the game after the battle results screen and then exit the campaign and then try to restart the campaign the game freezes on the movie introduction screen where the CONTINUE button resides. I know this has worked before.

I am not sure that this worked before. I previously reported that if I save after the battle result screen then exit and try and resume from that save, the game locks up. Is this what you meant? To avoid this I save at the end of the game but not after the results screen. That way I can go back and resume the campaign.

Paul Vebber · Post by **Paul Vebber** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 12:08 am

I thought we fixed that...but maybe it needs a fresh start under 7.o to work.

We do say continue existing games at your own risk...sometimes they work, sometimes not.

panda124c · Post by **panda124c** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 12:53 am

I have had a simular problem. I save a game twice one at the end of the game in one file and then every turn in another file. So when I finish a game I have the last turn of the game and the end of the game which goes to the buy screen for the next game.

The problem I had was with the end of game save it would lock at the movie screen when I hit the Contiue button. But if I ran the last turn and then saved it appear to work ok. I did this with three or four games (WWII Campain). I hope this is of some help.

Paul Vebber · Post by **Paul Vebber** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 3:12 am

Is this with a game started under v7, or continuing an old one pbear?

McGib · Post by **McGib** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 7:08 am

I have encountered this also. So far only after the battle results screen, everything else loads up fine.
BTW mine are campaigns started under V.7

Supervisor · Post by **Supervisor** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 8:02 am

I'm getting this as well, trying to continue a saved game under 6.1.
Any work around around this?
Thanx!!
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Originally posted by Panzer Commander:
I just upgraded to 7.0 and had a long campaign in progress. I figured I would try to play it out or if it got too weird with any OOB issues just start over.

I noticed that after if you save the game after the battle results screen and then exit the campaign and then try to restart the campaign the game freezes on the movie introduction screen where the CONTINUE button resides. I know this has worked before.

panda124c · Post by **panda124c** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 5:26 pm

Originally posted by Paul Vebber:
Is this with a game started under v7, or continuing an old one pbear?

These were old games started under 6.1

skukko · Post by **skukko** » Fri Dec 14, 2001 8:00 pm

IIRC IMHO !! :: I was afraid of saving battles in campaigns Before I was in battle again while playing SP -series. IIRC games hanged if saving in the middle of the Campaign engines works; IE after battle result/ exp. and units upgrade. Thats why I saved in last turn or continued into next battles first turn...

And this is possible reason why I have not seen this behavior.

mosh

rexmonday · Post by **rexmonday** » Sat Dec 15, 2001 9:56 pm

same problem here - started a new world war II long campaign (UK in east Asia), fought two battles and now am unable to load in the second save properly - the machine just locks up. This is on a fresh install - version 4 complete and then all other successive patches.

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McGib · Post by **McGib** » Sat Dec 15, 2001 10:06 pm

I'm having the same problem with a V.7 campaign, the only save that wont load is the one after the battle results screen.
And despite what skukko has said I have never encountered this problem before despite having three saves per game, one just after deploying, one during the battle, and again just after the battle results screen.

Larry Holt · Post by **Larry Holt** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 9:31 am

I do not have this problem anymore. On a new disk, I did an install from my MCNA disc, then patched it up to the new 7.0. Games started in this manner (there are no old games after my disc crash <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> )can be saved at the end of battle screen then restarted from there.

rexmonday · Post by **rexmonday** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 6:14 pm

I tried zapping the steel.prf file, but that made no difference. The WWII Long campaign save still locks up when you hit the 'continue' button.

panda124c · Post by **panda124c** » Tue Dec 18, 2001 6:28 pm

Originally posted by pbear:

These were old games started under 6.1

Paul, I reinstalled SPWaW from 5.1 CD then upgraded (restarting each time and deleting the steel file) all the way to 7.0, then I updated the sounds, and the problem presist. I started a new WWII Campain. And still have the same problem where, when I load an end of game save file it locks up at the continue screen, but loading games in progress works fine (all the games are WWII Campain games). Has anyone come up with a suggestion to correct this, it appears that only a few people are experiencing this problem. I'm hopeing that the new CD will fix it. Thanks, you guys are doing a great job.

timc · Post by **timc** » Tue Dec 18, 2001 7:58 pm

Paul: I have this problem every time with games saved after the results screen (in the WWII campaign). This is with the ver 7.0 patch applied to ver 6.1, all saved games and steel.prf deleted, campaign begun after ver 7.0 patch.
I can convert the saved game to a scenario, open it in the editor, save it in the editor, convert it to a save, and then load it as a saved game. I can't just load the saved game. This probelm only happens with games saved after the results screen.
I sent you (maybe) a set of corrupt(?) saved game files in an email. I hope they help.