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CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:44 pm
by invernomuto
When creating a campaign (German, battalion level, East front), the game after the briefing gives a "cannot create a dxdraw object" error and returns to desktop. Single scenarios play well instead...
JTCS patch 1.03.
Bye
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:02 pm
by invernomuto
Can anyone help?
I noticed that only east front campaigns crash, west front and japanese ones work correctly.
Need to reinstall the game entirely?
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:39 pm
by cw58
I wish I could help. [:(] I've never seen that error message before; I'm guessing no one else has either or they would have responded. I just tried mine and it works fine so maybe a reinstallation is in order. Good luck.
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:52 pm
by Warhorse
I wonder if you are missing a bmp file or something, or a bit of terrain? I would try a reinstall first, you're sure you patched to the correct directory, any duplicate installs?
Mike
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:41 pm
by cw58
Warhorse,
You may be right; I have gotten a "Direct Draw Message" when I'm missing a graphics file. Then it proceeds to tell me something like "failure to create upxxxxx.bmp" and then it's CTD time. And then I've got this nice olive drab and khaki color scheme for Windows. [8|] Very annoying. I wonder if there's an easier way to change it back other than rebooting.
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:02 pm
by marcbarker
are you on vista or xp
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:53 pm
by junk2drive
With XP I change the desktop theme and back again.
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:57 pm
by cw58
ORIGINAL: junk2drive
With XP I change the desktop theme and back again.
Thanks for the info; that will save me some time.[:)]
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:07 pm
by invernomuto
ORIGINAL: Warhorse
I wonder if you are missing a bmp file or something, or a bit of terrain? I would try a reinstall first, you're sure you patched to the correct directory, any duplicate installs?
Mike
Thanks for the infos. I tried to reinstall but I got the same error message. It happens only with my laptop (i tried on my desktop and everything works fine) and only with east front campaigns
West Front and Rising sun are ok.
Cannot understand what I'm doing wrong, if it were and hardware problem, I'd have the same message also with Rising sun and West Front.
RE: CTD when starting a new campaign
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:46 am
by invernomuto
SOLVED!!!
It was an issue related to my Firewall (Comodo Firewall). I disabled my firewall and I could play with East Front Campaigns and scenarios on my laptop. FW are great security tools but could do nasty things if you don't set them up correctly.
BTW,
JTCS is a little gem
Very good interface, rules and lots of fun.
Bye