Collapse of Vichy France Crash

[Rick5287]

I have found that if the Germans collapse Vichy France and the German unit is out of supply at the end of its move it is extremely likely that the game will crash. This will also occur if the German unit is in supply (but is not a sure thing). The only way around this is to save the game at a point just before the German unit is moved into Vichy territory and hope for the best.

[AxelNL]

ORIGINAL: Rick5287

I have found that if the Germans collapse Vichy France and the German unit is out of supply at the end of its move it is extremely likely that the game will crash. This will also occur if the German unit is in supply (but is not a sure thing). The only way around this is to save the game at a point just before the German unit is moved into Vichy territory and hope for the best.

Can you place that savegame please?

[Rick5287]

This one example (but the only saved one) of the game crashing when
Vichy France is collapsed. In this version the german mech unit next
to Vichy is moved in and crashes the game.

[Centuur]

Strange. I just loaded your game and collapsed Vichy by moving the German ARM in there, and everything went allright. No crash happened.

However, there is a nasty (but easy to avoid) bug around, regarding screen layouts. If the Main Form isn't on top of the detailed map or is positioned directly in the upper right corner of your screen, subscreens might not appear and might not be accessible to be read by the player. At that moment, it seems like the game is stalled, but in reality it is waiting for a response from you (which you can't give, because it isn't visible). This is a long shot, but can you check this (or use the type of screen layout I'm using for MWIF and see if you still get a crash if you collapse Vichy)?

[Rick5287]

thanks for looking into it. Since the german armor unit is in supply, I have the probability of the bug occuring is smaller than in instances where the german unit is out of supply. When out of supply there sometimes is an error message that states that very thing (move completed and them the error pops up saying out of supply exception).