ctd's in spwaw 6.1

[Supervisor]

I have been getting ctd's in every game that I have started in ver 6.1. It started when I was playing in a WWII campaign, and now during scenarios, too. Deleted steel.prf file, still no good.
System specs are:
AMD K6/2 450mhz
196m RAM
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000
Win98 (don't know if se or not)

now there is another thing, I did have a harddrive failure, and the other drives have been reassigned, but the game has been fine up until yesterday

[Supervisor]

I think it's too early for me only managed 1 eye open so far but I'm drawing a major blank, what's a ctd's and did it only happen after upgrading to 6.1. Never mind I got it Crash to desktop.

[ July 14, 2001: Message edited by: gmenfan ]

[Supervisor]

Ok, I got a Pepsi in me now(my coffee), what kind of HD failure, what drives got reassigned and are you still using the hardrive that failed? If you have other HD or partitions that got reassigned you got problems because when programs are installed they put information about itself all over the computer telling it where it is. IE: your HD was C: and now it's D: all of your drivers and key information within the ini files and regestry or going to look for the information on C: and it doesn't find it things start sh*tting the bed. If at all possible you need to try and get everything back to original configuration, if not you might have to uninstall everything and reinstall to the new configuration. Let me know how bad things really are. You might only have to uninstall SPWAW and reinstall if it's the only thing you're having problems with.

[Supervisor]

I have had some problems with some other games, but they have been ironed out, I guess that I could spend some more time to download the whole gaggle again. I have my 20 gig hd partitioned for dos stuff, as I boobooed in installing the drive, but my c drive was a different hd and it took a major poop on me......

[Supervisor]

Was the HD that SPWAW is installed on the one that pooped or was it an associated HD, are you still using that HD that sh*t. If you still using the bad HD you could be asking for trouble depending on what happened to it. If you are still using it do a thorough scandisk to flag bad sectors and move files to good clusters. If the HD is critically failing it can load the enitre computer down to cause multiple problems.

[ July 14, 2001: Message edited by: gmenfan ]

[sinner]

What's a cdt?

My v6.1 runs grean under Linux.

Maybe you should ditch Windows and use Linux. No BSOD, no re-install, no virus...

I'm assembling a page for SPWaW under Linux. Soon online. Check SPWaW WebRing!

[Supervisor]

Originally posted by Sinner from the Prairy:
What's a cdt?

My v6.1 runs grean under Linux.

Maybe you should ditch Windows and use Linux. No BSOD, no re-install, no virus...

I'm assembling a page for SPWaW under Linux. Soon online. Check SPWaW WebRing!

CTD: Crash to desktop, it took me a cobweb cleaning to figure it out also.

[Supervisor]

Reinstall solved the problem, only took about 3 hours via cable. I think that one of the problems was that I had been updating from version 3 up, but I am not discounting the hd failure either. Thank you for your assistance.
Bob