Crash
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Crash
The game crashed for me this morning when I hit the Windows key.
I received an e-mail, went to look at it, when I clicked back on the FOF application, while still in the inroductory screen (with the quote, music, and the guy hollering the Load in 9 times commands), there was a note from the awful looking US artillery?/infantry? man saying that Kentucky had joined the Union. No games were open, I had just started the program. The game crashed just after.
Hope that makes sense, I'll check back to give more details/answer questions if desired.
Thanks!
AS
I received an e-mail, went to look at it, when I clicked back on the FOF application, while still in the inroductory screen (with the quote, music, and the guy hollering the Load in 9 times commands), there was a note from the awful looking US artillery?/infantry? man saying that Kentucky had joined the Union. No games were open, I had just started the program. The game crashed just after.
Hope that makes sense, I'll check back to give more details/answer questions if desired.
Thanks!
AS
RE: Crash
I don't know about the crash, but as a long time Windows gamer one of the first things I found I need to do was disable the Windows key so it wouldn't bust me out of games. The link below is one of many that provide this option:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/d ... ndows_key/
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/d ... ndows_key/
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RE: Crash
I am finding the game unstable when started from "quick start" but much more table when booted from the main menu.
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RE: Crash
My crashes have happened after playing about 2 hours. Don't remember what I was doing for the first one. The second crash happened when the map was in the east and the message "CSA has captured Frankfort" appeared. Nothing happened until I clicked and got the message about the program needing to shut down.
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RE: Crash
Another thread mentioned there is some kind of crash associated with winning sieges.
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RE: Crash
I just crashed after a successful seige.
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RE: Crash
You know, I'm starting to think that I should just put a positive spin on this an announce that having a siege-related crash is a rite of passage...
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RE: Crash
I have yet to finish a game because of the siege related crash syndrome. Pretty frustrating. Any chance of a quick fix or pactch???? Please help. Otherwise, great game, been waiting for a good Civil War all-encompassing game for a long time.

Bill Hawthorne
RE: Crash
ORIGINAL: wzh55
I have yet to finish a game because of the siege related crash syndrome. Pretty frustrating. Any chance of a quick fix or pactch???? Please help. Otherwise, great game, been waiting for a good Civil War all-encompassing game for a long time.![]()
Eric is working on it. This is a high enough priority that when it's fixed we'd get it out ASAP, rather than waiting a few weeks to bundle it together with generals' bios or something.
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RE: Crash
Great, I knew I could count on you guys. You always support your games great. Does Michael Wood still work with Matrix? I met him when I used to creat scenarios for the original Steel Panthers for NovaStar Games.
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RE: Crash
Got another one today.
It seems like the message for the successful siege comes on the turn after the area has been taken - followed by the game freezing for a second or two and then the windows system tells us that FoF is having troubles and must close.
It seems like the message for the successful siege comes on the turn after the area has been taken - followed by the game freezing for a second or two and then the windows system tells us that FoF is having troubles and must close.
Quote from Snigbert -
"If you mess with the historical accuracy, you're going to have ahistorical outcomes."
"I'll say it again for Sonny's sake: If you mess with historical accuracy, you're going to have
ahistorical outcomes. "
"If you mess with the historical accuracy, you're going to have ahistorical outcomes."
"I'll say it again for Sonny's sake: If you mess with historical accuracy, you're going to have
ahistorical outcomes. "
RE: Crash
Crash is related to sieges. I seem to have fixed it. I want to work on the scroll locking problem -- may have a lead there. Hopefully we'll get a patch out soon.

RE: Crash
ORIGINAL: ericbabe
Crash is related to sieges. I seem to have fixed it. I want to work on the scroll locking problem -- may have a lead there. Hopefully we'll get a patch out soon.
Hurry!!![:D]
Quote from Snigbert -
"If you mess with the historical accuracy, you're going to have ahistorical outcomes."
"I'll say it again for Sonny's sake: If you mess with historical accuracy, you're going to have
ahistorical outcomes. "
"If you mess with the historical accuracy, you're going to have ahistorical outcomes."
"I'll say it again for Sonny's sake: If you mess with historical accuracy, you're going to have
ahistorical outcomes. "
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RE: Crash
Thats awesome. Bug is crippling my ability to play and I have decided to stop until a patch comes out. I had two union armies trapped and destroyed in Kentucky and then after I successfully finished the sieges against Frankfort and Lexington in Winter '62-'63, it crashes everytime.
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RE: Crash
ORIGINAL: ericbabe
I assume you've told Microsoft about this problem [:)]
Of course. Now he's waiting for "Billy Boy" to show up at his front door and beg forgiveness for all of WINDOWS problems, preferably with a large check in hand.
RE: Crash
It seems I solved the siege crash at least temporarily. I now save the game before each turn. I had a city under siege with two "armies". and I took the city. The game said I took the city two times (I assume for each army) and of course, the crash. After my restart of saved gane, I took one of the armies out of the siege, I took the city, and NO CRASH. Amazing. I am still playing the same game several turns later with no ill effects. Still waiting on the fix, though.[:D]
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RE: Crash
ORIGINAL: ericbabe
I assume you've told Microsoft about this problem [:)]
And we all know where those Error Reports end up don't we.[:D][:D][:D]
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