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Hello,

I need your help and am facing similar problems to what Darino had in post 70 and am hoping to be able to finally complete East Front South!!

The difference between Darino and I is that I have the problem for the Russians around the 550K point mark (late July early Aug '42), then the 1.1M mark, and now the 1.2M (3/2/43). My problem is that after I pass 550K in points, the game does not complete the mission after the general's speech. After the general's sprrch, I either get a run time error or the games closes such that I am at the initial East Front West Front Rising Sun selection screen. When I resume the campaign I get a resume mission screen and the process repeats. I first had this problem since Dec 2015. I have experienced it for five different Russian commanders for tank corps B/D or B. Product support was unable to find the solution so I am appealing to the forum as my last resort, I am hoping just like Darino to be finally able to complete the campaign.

After the first two commander failures, I began saving the commander files at key times like just before the 550K mark or with my latest commander saving the last turn's commander's files and the commander's files after the battle completes so that I can reload them when I encounter an error. I have had this problem for different versions and have all of the updates.

For my latest commander at the 550K mark I was finally able to get past this point by interrupting the close sequence by clicking help when I receive the score screen and making many repeat attempts to close. I would delete the old commander files and reload the saved commander files for each attempt. I experienced a couple of repeated problems from 550K to 1.1M, but was able to easily resolve them though the help screen reload process. When I went past 1.1M, I found it particularly hard to get past this point and must of have tried literally 50-60 times using the help reload method above without success. I then when to explorer, sorted by date modify on East Front and saw the related campaign, frontend, engine and AI files that were associated with each battle. So I went back to the battle before going over 1.1M played it and save all of the files associated with the battle and then went through the help and reload process and was able to go past that point. Now, I have hit a brick wall when I get to 1.207M or 1.209M at the beginning of March '43. None of my work-arounds work.

There is also no pattern in terms of the file order when it does not work. For example, at the of battle/scenario and score screens the order of the files are always: engine, noautorun, frontend, ai, commander's name.cpn (e.g., Belkin.cpn) .... After the general's name, for the run time error, they were one time ai, Belkin.cpn, engine, frontend and for another time they were engine, frontend, ai, Belkin.cpn. Likewise, when the game just closed without the runtime error the files could be frontend, engine ai, Belkin.cpn or frontend, ai, Belkin.cpn, engine.

Again, I either receive terminate in an unusual way or the program closes and goes back to the start up screen. Again, I am at the corps level (13th Tank Corps - B). My infantry has been upgraded to guards '42, my artillery is all 76mm: 2-four gun batteries and 5-2 gun sections, and my armor is all T34's'41 model organized in either 11 or 12-tank companies.

So, any thoughts on what to do for any stage from just over the 500K mark to the 1.2M mark. Again, I am only at March 2, 1943 and still have over two years that I would like to complete. [&:]

THANKS in advance for your help!![&o]

Norm

Gentlemen,

Is there a way of saving a DCG mission while in the 'set-up' phase?

I ask only, obviously, due to numerous tries at saving everywhere I can think of has not worked for me. Exiting during the set-up phase always brings me to Turn 1 when I load the game back up. The issue is when I get to Division and above there are many, many units, improved positions, pillboxes, trenches, et al, scattered about the map. Each unit must be individually selected, matched with its headquarters, etc. Each trench, IP, Pillbox, etc., must also be moved individually to where I want them. Playing the game for as long as I have been, one would think I would have found the solution by now...[&:]

The issue is that for me at least, this process can consume hours and hours. Many times I simply cannot spend that much time in a single session and it may be days before I can return to the game. The only way I have been able to work around this is to leave the computer on, the game running, and the mission left in the set-up phase until I place everything where I want it. This works, except when we suffer a power outage. We have a generator but the couple of second delay before it kicks in is enough to cut power to the computer. Yes, yes, battery back up...I know. That would keep my work-around going, but me thinks there must be something I am missing as far as saving the mission during the initial set-up phase.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated, and I promise to only feel foolish for a brief moment if the fix is simple...[8|]

Many thanks, in advance,

Janusz

Hi Dear,




I have the same problem with Campaign Series: Middle East 1948 - 1985, when I try to save the first round for the second mission for example in the campaign Jordan, I can’t restart from the saved game, I thought I can save the second mission at the beginning, so that if I I loose or fail not the start again from the first mission…. What’s the solution here ?


Best regards

Hamza

With Middle East, the 2.30 UPDATE should resolve the campaign problems.

It will be released on Tuesday

Thanks Sir,

I can’t save the game or even go to the next mission, the game crashes after finishing the first campaign mission „on the Jordan“… what’s the solution here, the buttons save game or New are not working, hopefully it’s resolved by the new update… how it will work then ? What is the way to load a mission again without thrown back to the first mission ? Which functions does the button „New“ have ? Many thanks in Advance

Best regards

Hamza from Berlin

Good day, the solution is wait until Tuesday and install the 2.30 UPDATE.

Sir Thanks for the reply,

Will this issue also be resolved ? See below, this come after finishing the first mission Jordan.

This Error is show when I try to play the second mission of the campaign Jordan.

Yes, it should also be resolved.

There was some errors introduced in the last update, so should be fixed with the 2.30 UPDATE

Hi Sir where is the update ? Any Link or advise to download it ?

Thanks in advance!