Display Error/Plato MFC error

[Reiryc]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

was able to make it though the turn with all quick battles

HARD_Sarge

That's the way I am playing all my games until they are able to resolve this problem. Too many times have I beaten the AI only to have the game go to error before the battle is over, leaving me having to replay the entire series of battles for a turn. ugh...

[benpark]

I'm getting the Plato error as well, but only when I quit.

[Erik Rutins]

We are looking into these issues for the first patch. The more detail you post, the better a chance we have of resolving them.

[jchastain]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
We are looking into these issues for the first patch. The more detail you post, the better a chance we have of resolving them.

I really think a save game feature during detailed battles, in addition to being a popular enhancement anyway, will help us with these issues as we'll be much more likely to have a save that can reproduce these problems.

[frodon]

I second that. The tactical battles takes a lot of time, and a save option would be great.

Fought 3 tactical battles so far (France against Austria/Russia). 2 of them crashed with the Plato MFC error during the second day of the battle.

[Braindeadjedi]

Every time I exit from the game, I get the Plato error. Just yesterday I starting locking up and getting the error when the game tried to switch from detailed combat back to the main part of the game. This has only occurred when the battle resulted in both sides routing. The battle winds down and I get the final result message, and then it coughs up a hairball trying to switch back to the main map.

I'm running a P4/3 GHz with HT and the integrated Intel Extreme Graphics and 1 Gb of memory. I hope this isn't due to a weak computer! [;)] I've attached a dxdiag report with full details on my system.

[HobbesACW]

Just got the PLATO MFC error when I went into review trade.

[goodwoodrw]

I got a Plato MFC error 40 minutes into a tact battle
Athalon xp1500
512ram
nvidia gf mx400 v\card

[Hard Sarge]

I went and updated my drivers

been useing the forceware drivers for the Gforce cards

got the laster driver and have not had a crash in two days

of course, I have only been fighting out the major battles

HARD_Sarge

[Braindeadjedi]

[Update] I can now say with confidence that returning to the main menu before exiting seems to have taken care of the error that popped up on exit. I've not yet had a repeat of both sides routing at the same time in the detailed battle, so I don't know if that's still a problem for me.

[goodwoodrw]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

I went and updated my drivers

been useing the forceware drivers for the Gforce cards

got the laster driver and have not had a crash in two days

of course, I have only been fighting out the major battles

HARD_Sarge

new drivers sounds good, went to the Nvidia site couldn't find a D\L for Geforce2 mx400, the only D\L I could find was a combined D/L of 20 megs or so, can't be stuffed only have a dail up. Searched the net for a site, got sick of wading through the adds having to join a membership just to D\L. don't ya just love this industry, any clues to where I can just D\L a driver upgrade

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: BASB

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

I went and updated my drivers

been useing the forceware drivers for the Gforce cards

got the laster driver and have not had a crash in two days

of course, I have only been fighting out the major battles

HARD_Sarge

new drivers sounds good, went to the Nvidia site couldn't find a D\L for Geforce2 mx400, the only D\L I could find was a combined D/L of 20 megs or so, can't be stuffed only have a dail up. Searched the net for a site, got sick of wading through the adds having to join a membership just to D\L. don't ya just love this industry, any clues to where I can just D\L a driver upgrade

Sorry, but for latest drivers you will be stuck with the Detonator combo pack. That´s the way NVIDIA distributes them.

[godochaos]

Hi, I had frequent MDC errors in detailed combat. I was using NVIDIA older Omega drivers and I went and downloaded the latest stock NVIDIA drivers. Since I updated the drivers I have gone through about 2 hours of detailed battles with no crashes so far.

[Reiryc]

I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers, removed my current drivers, installed the new ones. I have 96dpi as my setting.

Still getting the mfc error during detailed combat. It doesn't happen in every detailed combat, but I'd say 1 out of every 4-5 times which is about the same rate as before. It seems to happen more often with the larger field forces in excess of 80k combined troops from both sides.

[Mr. Z]

ORIGINAL: Reiryc

I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers, removed my current drivers, installed the new ones. I have 96dpi as my setting.

Still getting the mfc error during detailed combat. It doesn't happen in every detailed combat, but I'd say 1 out of every 4-5 times which is about the same rate as before. It seems to happen more often with the larger field forces in excess of 80k combined troops from both sides.

Someone on another thread suggested defragging your hard drive. Couldn't hurt, I suppose?

[Reiryc]

ORIGINAL: Mr. Z

ORIGINAL: Reiryc

I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers, removed my current drivers, installed the new ones. I have 96dpi as my setting.

Still getting the mfc error during detailed combat. It doesn't happen in every detailed combat, but I'd say 1 out of every 4-5 times which is about the same rate as before. It seems to happen more often with the larger field forces in excess of 80k combined troops from both sides.

Someone on another thread suggested defragging your hard drive. Couldn't hurt, I suppose?

I'll give that a go and report back what happens.

[Reiryc]

Ok ran the defrag and I'm still getting the mfc error crashes. Although they don't happen as frequently now.

[9thlegere]

MFC Plato error has happened when I exit game and during tactical battle second day.

I am very annoyed at this. don't think I should have to auto play or wait for a patch.

Athlon 2600, ATI 9800, 1GB Ram, Soundblaster live.

[Reiryc]

ORIGINAL: 9thlegere

MFC Plato error has happened when I exit game and during tactical battle second day.

I am very annoyed at this. don't think I should have to auto play or wait for a patch.

Athlon 2600, ATI 9800, 1GB Ram, Soundblaster live.

Have you tried the 2 things that have reduced the crashes a bit for some? If not, make sure you have the latest video driver (remove your current before installing the new after you download it) and defrag you hard drive.

This may not solve it completely, but it can reduce the error. I was having to only play quick battles because of crashing every 2-3 battles, but now I can play about 9-10 before I get the error since updating and defraging.

[9thlegere]

Yeah, I tried the two things, my DPI was already at 96. I was on very new drivers 5.4 cat, just downloaded 5.6 so will give a try but to be honest I don't see that making a difference.

I am a surprised that this never came up in testing at all.........