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RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 12:43 pm
by John 3rd
Thanks Sir.
We got home late last night. Running turn presently.
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 1:12 pm
by John 3rd
Have tried to run the turn twice and it keeps shutting down near the beginning while still in the night phase. Asked Dan to re-send the turn to see if that helps. Had this happen before and after some good recommendations from the Forum we had to back up and re-send the previous day's turn, Dan redo his orders (usually just a slight change), and then it ran. That was very strange last year. I think we did it twice and then I had to do a whole new install. Really HOPE that is not it...
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 2:20 pm
by John 3rd
Beginning to think we're looking at a re-install. It is on my end. My computer is just getting old enough to be a bit 'quirky.' LOVELY!
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 2:44 pm
by ny59giants
It's just matching the personality of its owner.
A little temper mental from day to day.
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:21 pm
by John 3rd
Thanks Michael.
Dan had Bill offer to help so he sent his password and turn files. This is cool. Love all the help we get from the Forum. Just did the same so he can see both sides and run the turn.
Think the problem is on my side with my install but we'll see...
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 1:40 pm
by BillBrown
Yes, you should get my email, but the turn ran with no problems for me( once I figured out that your password is all lower case letters [:)] )
My first suggestion is to reboot your computer. Make sure nothing is running and start AE and try running the turn.
You may have a problem with running out of memory and having programs running in the background can cause a problem.
If that doesn't fix the problem. Download combofix from here
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
and run it. It is safe and will clean up your registry files. Corrupted registry files can cause all kinds of
problems.
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:43 pm
by John 3rd
Thanks Bill!
I checked email when I got back from church prior to looking here so ignore my query that I sent you. Greatly appreciate the help and guidance.
Have a wedding to go to where my wife is the photographer. Won't be home until late. Once home I'll look at the Combat Report you generated and see if I can get things to go. Will try to use the remedies you recommend and will Post here later on with the results.
Isn't that what the Forum is all about readers?!!
Greatly appreciate it.
As Michael said above (in a most loving and caring way) I am terrible with technology! Pretty much a hate--hate relationship...
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:05 pm
by John 3rd
Good Morning All.
My wife was photographer at a wedding yesterday and I ended up being the wedding coordinator (without knowing it ahead of time) so we had a LONG day. Got home after midnight. Now I'm headed to work at the world of subway.
Haven't had a chance to run either of the suggestions made by Bill but I'll do that when I get home. HECK--I haven't had time to read the combat report he was able to generate. I wrote Dan and then Posted here to do a quick update.
Off to work...
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:11 pm
by Lowpe
Well done, Bill[&o]
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:15 pm
by John 3rd
He was a big help to at least get the file to run. I have got to find out what is going on with my side of things. My tower is old enough and getting persnictity that I fear a lot of the problem is right there. We'll try to figure it out today.
Don't have much motivation at the moment though. This has been a busy summer. The boys are now 12 and 9 and they are pretty active. We love to go camping so that has been a priority. This week we have our annual town celebration--LaSalle Days--that runs Fri-Sat-Sun. Saturday is our busiest day of the year at the store so that will be interesting. On the bright side, we have fireworks Saturday night! Always fun and good.
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:31 pm
by pws1225
RL first, AE second, always. [8D]
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:53 pm
by BillBrown
And I always thought it was the other way. [:D]
RE: Stoppage
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:20 pm
by Mike McCreery
ORIGINAL: BillBrown
And I always thought it was the other way. [:D]
I just shake my head at blasphemers... It is pointless to argue with them :}
Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:11 pm
by John 3rd
Hello My Readers.
The events over the last week have led me to temporarily suspend Dan and I's game.
Reasons are:
1. It appears I need to either upgrade or buy a new computer. Michael and I had a good chat this morning and he thinks the game is crashing due to RAM Issues or too full of a Hard Drive. IT makes a lot of sense to me since this computer is nearly 5 years old. I followed Bill's recommendations and hope to see an improvement. Will try to run the turn tonight and see. If I had ANY technological ability this would be far easier!
2. The toll taken on me by playing three games simultaneously has led to a strong feeling of burnout. For months I was doing turns during the morning, afternoon, evening, and middle-of-the-night. I had hoped that handing Herbie's game over to a new player and putting on hold Michael's game would help. Relieved of those commitments, I looked forward to each turn from Dan to see what craziness he had in store for the Empire! It felt like I was feeling better until the computer crapped out on me. What really told me there was burnout issues was that I really didn't feel an urge to fix things quickly and borderline didn't really care. I realized this on Sunday morning and that really freaked me out. Have been playing UV, WitP, and AE constantly for 13+ years. Guess burnout is only natural. Dan took over a year away from the Forum and two years away from our match when he experienced the same thing. It greatly helped him. Once I had the epiphany Sunday I tried to call Michael ASAP but didn't catch him until this morning. We talked it through and then I called Dan we had a great 30+ minute talk on the phone. As always, he was empathetic, understanding, and totally understood where I was coming from. Lord knows he did it earlier. Love the man to death. We can be at each other's throats yelling BANZAI or issuing the REBEL YELL and then totally separate from the game and talk as friends.
3. I have received three NASTY PMs by AFBs/Fans of his AAR that were completely rude, offensive, and WAY out of line. I was accused of cheating, not being 'man enough' to handle a late-war game, etc... Really served to push me right over the edge. Taking the moral high ground, I have not responded to these messages and will not name names here. I may send them to our moderator so he can see. It vividly reminded me of why Dan left the game when he did for very similar reasons years ago.
4. Life is CRAZY presently. I've mentioned this over and over since school got out. Family time MUST take priority and I am following the right path here until school re-starts. Someone commented about thinking I owned my Subway Franchise a while back. Paula and I are now officially entering negotiations to buy our LaSalle store as well as the store 12 miles south of here in Platteville. Ownership will be a HUGE step and we greatly look forward to it. Once past the family and work, our commitment to the LaSalle Area Historical Society has grown. In serving as the current President, we are aggressively working to buy a building (or takeover an old school house) to create a local community museum. This is another big commitment that has a marvelous up-side if we can gain the building.
Just thought the readers should understand that many elements and events have gone into making this very difficult decision. Dan and I are looking at taking a month-long siesta and then picking it up again in mid-August. This is our agreed upon plan.
In doing this it is my FERVENT hope to re-charge my batteries! I've decided that there will be some updates here as well as some serious time spent working on a new Mod. Mod work always serves to fire me up and clear my mind. Love the thinking and work that goes into creating a new variant/whole new Mod.
This is where we are at. Am sorry to put things on hold and I hope you understand. We're not done---just taking a break. Apologies are in order so here they are.
Warmly,
John
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:01 pm
by pws1225
I understand completely. No apologies needed. Best of luck on all the new adventures and I look forward to your resumption of the game whenever you are ready.
Regards, Paul
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:20 pm
by JohnDillworth
ORIGINAL: John 3rd
Hello My Readers.
The events over the last week have led me to temporarily suspend Dan and I's game.
Reasons are:
1. It appears I need to either upgrade or buy a new computer. Michael and I had a good chat this morning and he thinks the game is crashing due to RAM Issues or too full of a Hard Drive. IT makes a lot of sense to me since this computer is nearly 5 years old. I followed Bill's recommendations and hope to see an improvement. Will try to run the turn tonight and see. If I had ANY technological ability this would be far easier!
2. The toll taken on me by playing three games simultaneously has led to a strong feeling of burnout. For months I was doing turns during the morning, afternoon, evening, and middle-of-the-night. I had hoped that handing Herbie's game over to a new player and putting on hold Michael's game would help. Relieved of those commitments, I looked forward to each turn from Dan to see what craziness he had in store for the Empire! It felt like I was feeling better until the computer crapped out on me. What really told me there was burnout issues was that I really didn't feel an urge to fix things quickly and borderline didn't really care. I realized this on Sunday morning and that really freaked me out. Have been playing UV, WitP, and AE constantly for 13+ years. Guess burnout is only natural. Dan took over a year away from the Forum and two years away from our match when he experienced the same thing. It greatly helped him. Once I had the epiphany Sunday I tried to call Michael ASAP but didn't catch him until this morning. We talked it through and then I called Dan we had a great 30+ minute talk on the phone. As always, he was empathetic, understanding, and totally understood where I was coming from. Lord knows he did it earlier. Love the man to death. We can be at each other's throats yelling BANZAI or issuing the REBEL YELL and then totally separate from the game and talk as friends.
3. I have received three NASTY PMs by AFBs/Fans of his AAR that were completely rude, offensive, and WAY out of line. I was accused of cheating, not being 'man enough' to handle a late-war game, etc... Really served to push me right over the edge. Taking the moral high ground, I have not responded to these messages and will not name names here. I may send them to our moderator so he can see. It vividly reminded me of why Dan left the game when he did for very similar reasons years ago.
4. Life is CRAZY presently. I've mentioned this over and over since school got out. Family time MUST take priority and I am following the right path here until school re-starts. Someone commented about thinking I owned my Subway Franchise a while back. Paula and I are now officially entering negotiations to buy our LaSalle store as well as the store 12 miles south of here in Platteville. Ownership will be a HUGE step and we greatly look forward to it. Once past the family and work, our commitment to the LaSalle Area Historical Society has grown. In serving as the current President, we are aggressively working to buy a building (or takeover an old school house) to create a local community museum. This is another big commitment that has a marvelous up-side if we can gain the building.
Just thought the readers should understand that many elements and events have gone into making this very difficult decision. Dan and I are looking at taking a month-long siesta and then picking it up again in mid-August. This is our agreed upon plan.
In doing this it is my FERVENT hope to re-charge my batteries! I've decided that there will be some updates here as well as some serious time spent working on a new Mod. Mod work always serves to fire me up and clear my mind. Love the thinking and work that goes into creating a new variant/whole new Mod.
This is where we are at. Am sorry to put things on hold and I hope you understand. We're not done---just taking a break. Apologies are in order so here they are.
Warmly,
John
3. I have received three NASTY PMs by AFBs/Fans of his AAR that were completely rude, offensive, and WAY out of line.
Send em along to the moderator. One of the many, many nice thing about this forum is that political talk of any kind is not tolerated. It leads to uncivil discourse. There is more than enough of that in the world these days, you should not have to tolerate it here. Sorry to paraphrase but those 3 certainly do not represent most AFB's. Tend to whats important and we look forward to your return. Peace
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:55 pm
by Lowpe
I am hoping for a speedy pickup...
To me, this game is just now getting really interesting. It was fun before, but now it is truly interesting! 1944 and 1945 baby! The few, the proud...tough to get to as a JFB.
I think if you posted on the tech forum about your problems you would get prompt and good advice on how to fix the problem very quickly, with the least amount of frustration. That has been my experience...because dollars to donuts somebody had the exact same problem earlier.
The collective knowledge and life experience on the board is truly spectacular - take advantage of it for once instead of always giving to the community with your mods.[&o]
I know for me, having just gone thru a zillion and one problems (seemingly) with Windows 10 - I felt quite discouraged about playing too; having to work thru all the problems and play seemed too much.
But I posted a few general threads about the joy that is computers and in no time the rest of the board members raised my spirits with their stories and posts -- and, for now at least, those memories are fading and I can only remember the pummeling I am taking in the game.[:D]
I wish my kids were 12 and 9 again. Instead they are 24,22, 19 and two of them are in a world of dangerous places.
Cherish your time with them.
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:56 pm
by Bif1961
Real life always has priority. I find playing AE as an escape and relaxation, if it ceases to be then it is time to focus on other things. I use to play golf as a young man everyday all summer long but after several years I found it more frustrating than fun so I quit and I have felt no loss over it. I hope you have a fine summer and your life adventures make you happier than you ever hoped.
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:15 pm
by Anachro
Take all the time you need, John. I think a little breather will help out with both your fatigue and figuring how best to refocus and strategize for your game going forward. I'm looking forward to seeing how things turn out. Family and real life always come first, however. We'll be waiting. [:)]
RE: Temporary Break
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:14 am
by CaptBeefheart
Sorry to hear you received negative PMs. That's clearly not right. Although a lot of us are highly entertained by your game with CR, we'll survive a hiatus as you prioritize the important things in life.
Looking forward to some gripping entertainment post-August.
Cheers,
CC