Rokko Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum. Yesterday I've bought this game (all modules) and installed them over the Paradox retail edition. After playing the training campaign and some quick battles I randomly chose NATO Ambush at Dashkur as my first real battle. I was then mighty pissed when after a few 2 or 3 tries in that mission I made it 30 minutes into the game and it suddenly froze... I tried everything, reloading, creating a new save file, saving again. At one point I couldn't get the save game much farther as the game froze after about 5 seconds without any error message. Well so I started all over again, but after 30 minutes the EXACT same thing happened. There is no exact point when the game freezes, but I noticed that it only happens after I move some of my MRTVs out of cover to provide support. Since it happened twice I assume theres a problem with the scenario and not a random bug? I have Vista 32 bit, ATI 3800 series with Catalyst 10.7 I play in real-time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I'm not aware of bugs within scenarios that would cause a lockup. Usually when there are problems with scenario data (original game or a save game), the game stops loading with either an 'out of memory' error or just simply crashes to the desktop without an error. Your Catalyst driver is also a version that is beyond the 9.4 to 9.9 versions that locked up CMSF within 5 - 20 minutes of running the game. The Catalyst 10.2 driver would not even let CMSF run, but I'm not aware of any other problems with the Catalysts after that. You could potentially update your video drivers to see if that helps in any manner. Have you tried to play anything else such as a Quick Battle to see if you get similar behavior from the game ? If you play the same scenario, but either don't move the MRTVs or move them earlier, does the scenario crash ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokko Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Very interesting thing, I just tried it out. I started a suicidal attack on the town over the bridge right after my reinforcements arrived (which I was hestitant to do earlier for obvious reasons) and guess what: Within less than 3 minutes after their arrival the game crashed. The platoon arrived at about 55:00 and the game crashed at 52:03. The same platoon I would normally dismount at have advance on foot without anything happening. And again, normally I would not move my mobile element before 30:00 and the game never crashed before I did that step. The training campaign went on like a charme right to the end. Can anyone who has played that battle confirm this to me? I will try reinstalling the game and the modules, I remember I strangely had to do some file shifting before some campaigns at the NATO scenarios showed up in my game. I'll also try updating my driver to 11.1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 That's strange that interacting with a single unit type would cause a problem. Do you have anything 'modded' with your install of CMSF (graphics/textures, sound, etc.) ? I don't think any of the patches resolves an issue like this, but are you running 1.31 or 1.30 (the version that comes with NATO) ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokko Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 No not really, I installed my Paradox retail version, applied the all-in-one module file, installed 1.31 from the Battlefront homepage. I changed from German to English language and shifted some files from the German language folder I think, because not every scenario and campaign showed up. edit: I have now reinstalled the game, but the CTD still occours in every newly started game (in that specific scenario). As soon as I expose one my platoons in their MRTVs to pretty much LOS from every possible enemy position something goes wrong and the game crashes. Could it be that there is "too much going on" for my PC to handle or something like that? But it's not like I have a super outdated machine at all. I've set everything to either Balanced or Improved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 No, I don't believe that the CPU is getting overloaded to the point that the game crashes (at least I don't believe that is what is happening). However I don't really have an answer as to what is happening here. I don't think anyone else has experienced problems specifically with the MRTVs in a scenario and I don't know why a specific scenario would have a problem with such units. Looking at the 'NATO Ambush at Darkush' scenario in the Editor, unlesss I'm mistaken, I'm not seeing any 'MRTV' trucks. I just see Canadian Nyalas and G-Wagons. Do you actually have MRTVs in your scenario ? I changed the game language to German and the German scenario didn't seem to have any MRTVs either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokko Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 oops, yeah I confused MRTVs for MRAPs, with which I meant those Nyalas. edit: and I guess I didn't mean MRTVs either, but MTVRs, well that happens when you try to sound like a military buff... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeps Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I also get a CTD in this scenario, this morning just as I took a troop across the bridge. Win 7 x64, 2GB Ram, 9600 GT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I try this scenario using the same method, and the game does freeze, does not crash to desktop, just freezes. As an experiment then, have left it on, and it continues after some minutes with time compression rates along the 9 second range. This also seems to me to be something overworking the cpu.. I have Windows XP, nothing fancy, 2GB RAM 2.99MHz. 256 MB video RAM. The reason for my conclusion of what seems to be causing the problem, is that I have encountered this before on my own, trying to see how large of a scenario I could make, and with basically a regiment on each side, it went well, but once things were moving and shells flying, the exact same thing happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Try to play the game in WeGo and see if it still has the same problem. WeGo calculates each turn for 1 minute and it may possibly relieve a bit of the burden that the CPU might be getting from real-time (if that is the issue here). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdecken5 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I keep crashing when I play Ambush at Dashkur using WeGo. I dont think its a CPU problem because I have managed to play some other larger NATO quick battles without crashing. I really like this mission but I always cash to desktop Windows XP SP3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdecken5 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I have tried this battle on a new pc using windows 7 and it still crashes the game every time I play it. Even if I make a save game it always crashes in the same place. It looks like a fantastic scenario and I really want to play it. Has anyone managed to complete it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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