Game wont load

[wodin]

Happened at first and reinstalled and it worked..have gone back to boot it up again and get the error again..

Unit data validation failed at
Hexgame, Modelspace,Peices. Piecesprototype. LoadContent(ContentManager content, Graphicsdevice device)
at Hexgame.Application.HexGame. LoadContent()
at Microsoft.XNA.framework.Game.Initialise()
at Hexgame.Application.HexGame. Initialise()
at Microsoft.XNA.framework.Game.Run()
at Hexgame.Application.Program.Main(string[]args)

[happyloaf]

I get errors like that or it won't load. OR some scenarios won't load. Others will load but if a unit moves into a certain hex it crashes. It needs a patch. Sadly, they won't refund me. The game keeps crashing my whole computer even when I try to uninstall it.

[ericbabe]

ORIGINAL: happyloaf
I get errors like that or it won't load. OR some scenarios won't load. Others will load but if a unit moves into a certain hex it crashes. It needs a patch. Sadly, they won't refund me. The game keeps crashing my whole computer even when I try to uninstall it.

The game code doesn't have anything to do with the uninstall process. If you're having problems with your machine crashing during uninstall, it seems more likely that there is some problem with your computer -- perhaps bad memory, hard drive sector, HD controller, or motherboard issue.

[ericbabe]

Thanks for the report. A "unit data validation" error means that the data in the unit XML files has been modified or corrupted somehow. If you've done a clean reinstall and patch, I'm not sure why you'd be seeing this. When you reinstall, make sure you're installing over an empty location and not over any existing copy of the game.

Are you using "Ghost Divisions"? GD modified the unit validation table, but should come with a new unit check-sum. If you're mixing and matching COH and GD somehow -- say by copying some files and not others by hand -- then there could be this problem.

Have you done any modding of files or are you using any modded scenarios -- anything that might modify a unit XML file?