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Posted by: Corey

« on: June 24, 2017, 02:24:49 PM »

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We'd need more information on what's actually happening when it crashes. What version of the mod are you playing? What GC? What faction? What roughly is going on when it crashes (are you in tactical battles, galactic battles, any notable heroes just die)? 2.1 has no notable crashes that we're aware of if you have the patch installed, 2.2 Demo has one or two potentially related to emergent faction events that we're trying to track down. Alliance mod is not a good indicator for anything frankly, that mod is and has always been a broken pile of bugs.

Posted by: Starkiller21

« on: June 24, 2017, 01:04:28 PM »

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This is somewhat semi off-topic but I also experience these crashes on the Alliances mod. It seems like these stream of errors could potentially be the game itself. i saw a post of someone comparing different versions of the game from the actual retail discs of both the vanilla EAW and FOC, to the retail version of the gold edition, and to the digital gold versions. The post also stated that the best version to run mods on is to buy EAW and FOC separately in disc form. Idk if this helps confirm anything, I just want someone to find a solution to these crashes.

Posted by: Combustion

« on: April 05, 2017, 10:07:09 PM »

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I'm also getting the same problem

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: January 31, 2017, 02:30:36 PM »

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Quote from: Corey on January 30, 2017, 06:45:47 PM

If it's an issue that only occurs sometimes, and after playing a bit, it could be because the game doesn't have proper permissions with the savegame folder.

How would i solve this? The game is installed on my Steam Library 1TB SSD H:\ drive, the save game folder for petroglyph is on the C:\ drive, the game is ran as admin and im the only / admin user. So i would assume the permissions are a given?

Posted by: Corey

« on: January 30, 2017, 06:45:47 PM »

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If it's an issue that only occurs sometimes, and after playing a bit, it could be because the game doesn't have proper permissions with the savegame folder.

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: January 30, 2017, 03:31:51 PM »

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Quote from: Earthling on November 07, 2016, 09:20:22 PM

I am very grateful to Jacknm2 for going so extensively to fix this problem with crashes. I cannot imagine how frustrating and time-consuming this must've been.

I myself have tried almost every solution under the sun to make Thrawn's Revenge not crash in Empire at War after a while with the sudden EXCEPTION CANNOT FIND logfile blah blah error. It usually happens when I try and save a game or load a space or ground battle after a while of play which can range from 1-4 hours. Must be something to do with the longer or more intense i play, the more the computer just wears out.

However the RAM fix should be in play since I have Gold Pack in Steam plus my system should be more than capable with an i7 860, R9 390, 8GB Corsair + 4GB G-Skills Ripjaws and a 750W Power supply. PLZ HELP

I wish I had goods news regarding this, but I've found this isnt limited to Thrawns Revenge, I am also having this issue on Republic at War and Stargate Pegasus Chronicles Mod's.

It is very frustrating and ive spent many hours trying to fix this issue but i think it comes down to the steam version. Many Many people are telling me to get the GoG version of the game as the GoG team made the game compatible witht all OS versions and included fixes. But I'm reluctant....and unable to spend another £15.99 on a 3rd copy of the game (having the Disc versions none gold pack and Steam gold Pack).

I'd be very greatful if any of Thrawns Revenge Mod Dev's or moderators could perhaps shed some light on this after all this time, but I DO understand you guys are doing this in your freetime and your busy moving onto other games to mod. But still any help or info on this would be awesome, as my software skills have been exhausted at this point.

Posted by: Tornado1001

« on: November 12, 2016, 09:32:21 PM »

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I also am having these exact issues with my Thrawn's Revenge and have followed the same steps as Jacknm2 and Earthling. I EXTREMELY love the mod and I've been hooked for quite sometime, but I can hardly get progress. . . .

Posted by: Earthling

« on: November 07, 2016, 09:20:22 PM »

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I am very grateful to Jacknm2 for going so extensively to fix this problem with crashes. I cannot imagine how frustrating and time-consuming this must've been.

I myself have tried almost every solution under the sun to make Thrawn's Revenge not crash in Empire at War after a while with the sudden EXCEPTION CANNOT FIND logfile blah blah error. It usually happens when I try and save a game or load a space or ground battle after a while of play which can range from 1-4 hours. Must be something to do with the longer or more intense i play, the more the computer just wears out.

However the RAM fix should be in play since I have Gold Pack in Steam plus my system should be more than capable with an i7 860, R9 390, 8GB Corsair + 4GB G-Skills Ripjaws and a 750W Power supply. PLZ HELP

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: October 31, 2016, 11:48:24 AM »

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Well I can play skrimish mode OK but any GC apart from the first one "Stars Align" im outta luck. Perhaps I should just try the SoSE Rebellion Mod xD

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: October 25, 2016, 08:40:06 AM »

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Ok I checked after my new installation and in H:\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars Empire at War\corruption\Data - There was no Scripts Folder and in the XML Folder was just a GAMECONSTANTS xml file, which I deleted because if I wanted to play FoC i could always verify again.

I Attempted to play again and same result but not always in the same place, its random.

Exception in thread 8C0 - Main Thread
Exception code EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Attempt to write to address 02240000

Exception occurred at 00571F77 - Unknown code pointer

Stack walk:
0056DBBB : Unknown

Register dump:
Eip:00571F77   Esp:0019F864   Ebp:00000008
Eax:00000008   Ebx:0019FA38   Ecx:00000002
Edx:00000052   Esi:61942E40   Edi:02240000
EFlags:00010202
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b

Bytes at CS:EIP (00571F77): F3 A5 8B C8 83 E1 03 F3 A4 01 6B 44 8B 43 44 8B 4B 48 3B C8 5F 5E 7E 02 8B C1 89 43 48 8B C5 5D 5B C2 08 00 CC CC CC CC CC 81 EC 04 02 00 00 8B 84 24 08 02 00 00 53 55 56 57 33 FF 89 3D 20 88

More or less same error code.

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: October 24, 2016, 06:10:27 PM »

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There shouldnt be anything in those folders?

But i did a clean install with a comoletely new Directory (H drive instead of my F drive) and only then went to corruption and created a mods folder then added the ICW extracted folder to it. Then launched the game via launch command.

So I assumed those XML files and Scripts where part of the base FoC game. I'm just going to work now...dam night shift so ill have to get on it tomorrow. I'll delete those folders I guess and see if it works.

Before I do that tomorrow however Ill take some screenshots of what it was like before I did so and upload them to imgur so you can see if theres anything that shouldnt be there.

Posted by: Corey

« on: October 24, 2016, 05:49:44 PM »

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Well the files you mentioned in your post after I asked the first time shouldn't have been there to begin with. Some mods (ie RaW) install those files there, which interferes with other mods (explaining why both TR and RotM are crashing) so I'm just trying to figure out of any of those are still there.

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: October 24, 2016, 05:34:11 PM »

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Quote from: Corey on October 24, 2016, 02:48:44 PM

It wouldn't be a Windows 10 problem, plenty of people play it with no issues on Windows 10. So, with the install you're running off of, if you go back into those folders (corruption/Data/XML or Scripts), there's nothing there now and it's still crashing?

Yea i figured it wasnt a win10 problem when i checked your youtube tutorial incase i missed anything but the mod installation is straight forward to me and ive been installing them since 2008 lol but you never know so i double checked.

I havent touched those folders after installing. The crash occurs with those intact but there has been nothing Ive added and ive installed 4 times now and validated the cache god knows how many times lol

Those folders your referring to I havent touched, I havent added anything or removed. As far as Im aware they are the standard files for FoC that come with the steam installation. Should I delete this and try launching off the Mod Data Folder alone?

Posted by: Corey

« on: October 24, 2016, 02:48:44 PM »

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It wouldn't be a Windows 10 problem, plenty of people play it with no issues on Windows 10. So, with the install you're running off of, if you go back into those folders (corruption/Data/XML or Scripts), there's nothing there now and it's still crashing?

Posted by: jacknm2

« on: October 24, 2016, 08:25:46 AM »

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Quote from: Corey on October 23, 2016, 10:44:19 PM

If you go into corruption/Data/XML or corruption/Data/Scripts, is there anything there?

I'm not too sure what I'm looking for but in curruption/data/scripts there are 5 folders AI - FreeStore - GameObject - Library - Story, most of these containing numberous .bak files and .lua files most of them being in the GameObject and AI folders.

In the XML Folder there is an AI Folder and 5 XML Documents: Expansions_Factions.xml - FactionsFiles.xml - Factions - GameConstants.xml - GraphicDetails.xml. Inside the AI Folder is more folders in which more XML's are stored.

I can provide more info or upload some screenshots to imgur if you need to have a look at whats there but it all looks like basic game files.

EDIT: I've done some more testing with another Mod, Rise of the Mandolarians and I've found that this crash happens there as well, So i think I can rule out this being down to your mod and is down to something on my end but I cant figure out what. I'll do some more testing by reinstalling the RaW mod and see if this crash happens here too. Sorry for wasting your time.

EDIT 2: I even went so far as to delete the contents again and I reinstalled the game in a Fresh Folder on my other SSD a newer 1TB Samsung 850 EVO and I get the same results there as well. Perhaps this is a windows 10 problem?